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Goldman Sachs Trader sues over skimpy $8.25 million bonus
CBS News ^ | June 20, 2014

Posted on 06/21/2014 4:51:04 PM PDT by Wolfie

Goldman Sachs Trader sues over skimpy $8.25 million bonus

A former Goldman Sachs (GS) trader, still furious at getting only an $8.25 million bonus in 2010, has taken the giant investment bank to court to get paid millions more.

Deeb Salem says he helped Goldman earn more than $7 billion and that a little more money in his pocket would only be fair considering all his contributions. He wants about $5 million in additional pay from Goldman.

In his petition filed last week in New York's State Supreme Court, Salem said things at Goldman started to unravel when he got a written warning about his 2007 job self-evaluation, Bloomberg reports. In that self-evaluation, Salem reportedly discussed a short squeeze involving derivatives linked to subprime home loans in 2007.

His own words were later used by U.S. Senators investigating whether Goldman bet against the mortgage market in 2006 and 2007 in such a way that helped it reap massive rewards as the housing sector tanked.

You just don't talk about such things in your job evaluations at Goldman, and Salem said his pay was docked as punishment for those comments.

Salem watched his annual bonus go from $15 million in 2009 to $8.25 million the next year and $3 million in 2011. He left the firm in 2012 but soon filed a complaint about his 2010 pay with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street's self-funded regulator. He tried to get more than $16 million from Goldman in arbitration, including nearly $7 million in deferred stock he felt he was owed. But the authority sided with Goldman Sachs.

Now, Salem wants New York's state court to overturn that regulatory decision. Goldman has argued that it has the final say on all bonus amounts and that Salem was aware of the policy.

Goldman's lawyer, Andrew Frackman, said during a hearing on the case that Salem received more than $35 million in pay over six years and was better paid than his peers, Bloomberg reports. "He made a ton of money," Frackman said at the hearing, according to Bloomberg. "He's not entitled to more simply because he would like to have been paid more. If that were the case, you'd have traders and bankers in here every day of the week."


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KEYWORDS: wallstreet
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1 posted on 06/21/2014 4:51:04 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie

All that for playing the lottery?!


2 posted on 06/21/2014 5:07:05 PM PDT by mkboyce
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To: Wolfie
Wasn't there an article about monkeys, the market, and darts here on FR the other day?

They work for bananas.

/johnny

3 posted on 06/21/2014 5:09:58 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Wolfie

Life is tough.


4 posted on 06/21/2014 5:23:23 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Wolfie
Deeb: "I only got paid this teensy bit!"


5 posted on 06/21/2014 5:27:47 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Graewoulf

Another productive member of society.


6 posted on 06/21/2014 5:41:34 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Wolfie

I hope he wins. Looks like he got screwed here.


7 posted on 06/21/2014 5:43:31 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: mkboyce

You are ignorant. You are not a trader. You do not understand that matter of which you speak. This is not sarcasm. If you call trading the “lottery” then you are in bed with the socialists.


8 posted on 06/21/2014 5:48:28 PM PDT by impimp
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To: SamAdams76

I side with the bank - it is the industry standard that the employer can give the trader whatever bonus it wants.


9 posted on 06/21/2014 5:49:30 PM PDT by impimp
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To: SamAdams76

...unless his employment contract called for a % payout - then he really was cheated.


10 posted on 06/21/2014 5:50:37 PM PDT by impimp
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To: Wolfie

When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.


11 posted on 06/21/2014 6:11:04 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: Wolfie

There is truly no honor among thieves.


12 posted on 06/21/2014 6:23:58 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Surgeon General Warning: Operation of Government Motors vehicles may be hazardous to your health)
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To: Cicero

Deeb? I think he’s more of a Dweeb.


13 posted on 06/21/2014 6:49:10 PM PDT by isom35
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To: Wolfie

Well, if he loses, he’ll have to figure out a way to get by on the $15M he still made.

I simply have a HARD TIME trying to figure out how to use all that money, even in a lifetime.


14 posted on 06/21/2014 7:09:00 PM PDT by BobL
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To: impimp

Build something real...then you can talk.


15 posted on 06/21/2014 7:34:09 PM PDT by mkboyce
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To: impimp

How much money did wall street accept from the federal government to bail their failed asses out? Talk about socialism.


16 posted on 06/21/2014 7:38:20 PM PDT by mkboyce
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To: Wolfie

Cheaters stealing from thives.... isnt that normal?


17 posted on 06/21/2014 8:38:19 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Wolfie

He and others like him basically created the financial collapse by bidding up stocks then betting against as they pulled the rug out from the US economy. They knew that congress would come to their rescue by giving them trillions. Top pay for it money was printed out of thin air. Prices for everything have gone up.

Know wonder this arrogant son of a $#@! wants more money.....

BTW my cousin in law. He used to work at Goldman Sachs for 25 years. He now works for a Japanese bank and has appeared several times on a CNBC financial show. Look up Rick Sherlund.


18 posted on 06/21/2014 9:35:16 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: impimp
You are ignorant. You are not a trader. You do not understand that matter of which you speak. This is not sarcasm. If you call trading the “lottery” then you are in bed with the socialists.

I take it that your screen name is supposed to be broken down as "im pimp" vs. "imp imp"

19 posted on 06/22/2014 3:32:00 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: mkboyce

Spoken like a central planner.


20 posted on 06/22/2014 5:36:16 AM PDT by impimp
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