Quick Picks: Corporate Jets and Loans for Bank Execs
Our editors’ picks of the latest investigative stories around the Web:
- JPMorgan Chase, which has received $25 billion in bailout bucks, plans to spend $138 million on two corporate jets and “the premiere corporate aircraft hangar on the eastern seaboard,” reports ABC News. A spokesman for the bank told ABC News that it will repay all TARP funds before it makes any payments for new planes or hangar renovations.
- As lending froze across the country late last year, Bank of America’s loans to its executives and other insiders surged, reports the Charlotte Observer. Insider lending, which totals roughly $41 billion at banks nationwide, is legal, but corporate governance experts tell the Observer that it “carries serious potential for conflict of interest.”
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