The top five executives at Bear Stearns and the top five at Lehman made $2.4 billion from 2000-2008. The popular imagining was they suffered financially with the collapse of their firms. The reality is they’d already cashed in huge amounts of stock before the collapse.
From Barry Ritholtz:
Top 10 Bear Stearns & Lehman execs made $2.4 billion
Pete Ware 