Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery Since 2002

Committee Holds Hearing on CEO Pay and the Mortgage Crisis

“The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing titled, Executive Compensation II: CEO Pay and the Mortgage Crisis on Friday, March 7, 2008. The hearing examined the compensation and retirement packages granted to the CEOs of three corporations deeply involved in the current mortgage crisis. This was the Committee’s second hearing on executive compensation practices. On December 5, 2007, the Committee examined the role of compensation consultants in determining CEO pay.”

  • Links to testimony
  • Majority Staff, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Supplemental information on CEO pay and the mortgage crisis, March 6, 2008 – “In preparation for the Committee’s hearing, the Committee has received thousands of pages of documents from the three companies, including board minutes and internal company emails. The Committee staff also has reviewed hundreds of public Securities and Exchange
    Commission (SEC) filings and consulted with leading experts in executive compensation. This memorandum summarizes some of the questions raised by the materials reviewed by the Committee staff.”
  • Sorry, comments are closed for this post.