Saturday, January 12, 2008

Countrywide CEO will get $110 million severance for helping create subprime mess, dumping $400 million in stock before CFC fell 80%

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2008/01/mozilo-severanc.html

His contract agreement, which extended the 69-year-old's employment contract through 2009, Mozilo was guaranteed three times his base salary, plus a cash payment equal to three times the greater of his average bonus or the incentive bonus paid the previous year. Net value: $87.8 million.

Mozilo would receive continuing health benefits for life for himself and his spouse, three years of life and financial planning benefits, and "tax-gross-up payments" to compensate him for any penalties he'd have to pay for receiving payments the IRS might consider excessive.

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