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by AdamJacobMuller 1199 days ago
If there are 20m in unpaid wage claims and they see that there were 20m in bonuses paid out in the last 30/60/90/whatever days, I think a decent prosecutor could make an argument that it abuses the corporate liability shield to pay yourself bonuses when you could have or should have known that the company was not healthy.

Even if you can't make the argument that they could or should have known that the company was unhealthy, I think the argument can be made that the individuals who are missing base salary deserve to have that paid even if it requires clawing back some extraordinary compensation for executives.