BUSINESS BRIEFING / BANKING
Times Wire Reports
New York’s attorney general and a key congressman are demanding that the chief executive of Bank of America Corp. immediately disclose details about individual bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch & Co. employees in December.
The Charlotte, N.C., bank acquired Merrill on Jan. 1.
The letter from Atty. Gen. Andrew Cuomo and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) to Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis comes as Cuomo’s office and the bank fight about whether details of individual bonuses should be made public.
