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In a recent ABC interview, Virginia Hamerness, one of the descendants of the Bank of America founders, named the executives of BOA “a bunch of idiots”. Why

Well, let’s start with the fact that they agreed to buy Merrill Lynch last fall, even after learning that the outgoing CEO paid lavish bonuses to the same executives who oversaw Merrill’s downward spiral. In her opinion, this was more than stupid – it was playing around with shareholders’ money (she among themselves). When they were given those bonuses,” Hammerness says, “I think Bank of America should have said, ‘Go drown. Go drown yourselves.’ I’m sure he and my father are turning over in their graves. I’m sure they are.”Read More »Bank of America Executives – “A Bunch of Idiots”