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The CEOs of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the two investment banks that collapsed during last year's financial meltdown, walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation even as the company's shareholders lost everything, says a new report from Harvard Law School.

Critics of executive pay have more reason to be angry. A new study has found that executives at two firms - Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns - walked away with huge payouts even as their shareholders were losing almost everything.

While last year's meltdown crushed clients' portfolios and left advisors scrambling to explain their firms' behavior, top management teams had built up enough wealth in previous years that they did just fine.

Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers paid their executives largely in stock, and that stock lost most or all of its value when those companies collapsed.

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"In the next century, a company will stand or fall on its values," Robert Hass, CEO of Levi Strauss was quoted to have said.

Is high-frequency trading driving a wholesale transformation of the job market on Wall Street? It certainly seems that way, given recent comments by industry executives who point to the insatiable demand for programmers who can build ultralow-latency automated trading platforms.

Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of fraud in an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that lured 300 investors nationwide in purported eco-friendly investments.

Wall Street's reckless appetite for risk may have nearly brought down the financial system last fall, but nothing like that will ever happen again, right? In The Sellout , CNBC on-air editor and longtime Wall Street reporter Charlie Gasparino, says: Don't be so sure.

Despite his acquittal on criminal charges, former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Ralph Cioffi is far from free of legal woes.

Plenty of folks would like to jail anyone and everyone on Wall Street whose reckless conduct and lies to investors helped sink the economy and cost them their jobs, their homes and their retirement savings.

U.S. securities regulators intend to proceed with their civil case against two former Bear Stearns fund managers who were acquitted of related criminal charges earlier this week.

Lost in this weeka TMs maelstrom of white collar activity a ' the acquittal of the Bear Stearns bankers, the accusations that Blackwater bribed Iraqi officials, and the sentencing of former Congressman Jefferson this Friday a ' was the sentencing of handbag mogul turned would-be Caspian petroleum mogul Frederic Bourke.

Note to execs: It's safe to hit "Send" again. On Nov. 10, a jury found a pair of former Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers not guilty of securities fraud.

It is the llth day of the llth month but I am not sure we are in the llth hour. It is Armistice Day here in France marking the end of World War l. A perfect time isn't it for The French President Sarkozy to meet and greet a visiting Israeli hardliner and new messiah, Bibi Netanyahu, here to press to him to make war, not peace, on Iran.

Zachery Kouwe, NYTimes, Bear Stearns Managers Acquitted of Fraud Charges reports on the acquittal of two former Bear Stearns Managers who faced government indictment.

In this Oct. 14, 2009, file photo, former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Matthew Tannin enters Brooklyn federal court in New York.