A former Lehman Brothers trader’s $84 million bonus was so nice that he wants it twice, according to an official in charge of winding down Lehman’s brokerage business.
Jonathan Hoffman, a 42-year-old global rates trader, was Lehman's third-highest paid rank-and-file employee when the bank collapsed. He was already "fully paid" the bonus by Barclays after the bank bought Lehman, says a lawyer for James W Giddens, the trustee unwinding Lehman's brokerage, in a letter filed Monday with US Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.