OK, if a Bank Exec violates a federal statute then he gets a ticket to jail. But if his buddy does everything right why does he get a pay cut? Who the hell does the federal government think they are to go around and tell people what they can and can't earn?
When it's my money it is fine with me pay the taxpayers back and then follow the law. End of story.
You do know that a corporation is a creation of law, it isn't a Saint, and what laws gives laws can take away. Maybe they, and you, should buy the corporation and take it private.