According to the article, all the bonuses were awarded before financial problems hit the company and before they took government funds.
I guess what got me was Drudge running it in big bold letters as his lead story, so I think, ahhh, the flu is winding down here’s the next distraction, I honestly feel like the media is just running all this as something is going on behind the scenes, something big, must be Israel or something, but something’s up.