This whole John Thain, Ken Lewis Rumble in the Bronx has been thrilling but clearly there are lesser-known, more hilariously-named cast members to speak of. Let’s start with Steele Alphin, chief administrative officer at Bank of America, and essentially Lewis’s right hand guy. He also served as Thain’s ambassador into the BAC world. For instance, we’re told it was Alphin who set the aggregated compensation level for Merrill bonuses, and convinced Thain to change the cash/stock breakdown from 60/40 to 70/30, because it would help BAC’s balance sheet (the cash coming from MER, the stock coming from BAC). Oh, and Steele’s also the one who can say definitively, despite attempts to leak stories to the contrary, that Thain never asked, per se, for a $10 million bonus.
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Too Gaba, didn’t Goal
This is all so clumsy.
Dumb and Dumber
I hate that font.
do chickens have large talons?
Someone’s porting Alphin?
Doesn’t matter. This is a nominal discovery. Thain’s name has already been besmirched…
This must be a fake – that font is way too gay.
@clown- except that per the FT article yesterday, and this today, it’s becoming obvious that BAC is waging a smear campaign to deflect attention from its own incompetence.
Comic Sans = lame
-MoneygripWisdom
@10: In Charlotte, using ComicSans is seen as a big deal and even slightly edgy.
Also, 10, ComicSans is strictly reserved for C-level employees.
That picture of Thain gives me the heeby jeebies
@clown capital– now that this guy’s being called by cuomo, still not a big deal?
wow this was intelligent, one of two people could have faxed you that letter. Andrea, or Tom. and lord knows tom didnt. Andrea, you are fired.
common sense dictates any font whose name contains the word comic is probably not appropriate for serious business communication.
This is consistent with what many insiders felt at the time–that the “leak” from the board was actually a smear campaign from either a board member who was enraged about the overall levels of bonuses beneath thim that Thain was permitting (Finnigan on the comp comm), or someone out to get John and his job, like Greg Fleming.
http://bancomicsans.com/home.html
Do you think Andrea Smith is better or worse looking than Wideclops? Can anyone dig up some pics?
thain a wrestler?!
calling it a day…
Font too gay, not BA
This is not ComicSans, it is Calibri. Come on guys, get your fonts right.
if there is one thing in my life that i am proud of, it is supplying that picture of thain to DB
Not enough Wingdings for my taste.
-Perez Hilton
that font is popular among the tobacco chewing and spitting (in meetings) crowd in charlotte, n.c.