Maria has gotten entangled in a handful of controversies over the past couple of years. After she was caught with Todd Thomson, the former head of Citigroup's wealth management unit, aboard one of the bank's company jets—the coy financial press avoided the word "affair," referring instead to a "private flight"—Thomson was sacked, and it was later revealed that he'd used $5 million from his marketing budget to finance a Sundance Channel program Bartiromo was hosting.