Lehman Brothers Trader Wants 2008 Bonus – Again

Lawyer James Giddens, who handled the bankruptcies for Lehman Brothers and MF Global, doesn’t want to pay Jonathan Hoffman an $84 million bonus he says was already paid.

Hoffman, 42, says when he left Lehman he was owed $76.3 million bonus for 2008 and another $7.7 million for the second installment of his 2007 bonus, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Giddens disagrees, saying after Barclays bought the bank it “fully paid” Hoffman, who is seeking $84 million. Giddens is attempting to have that claim thrown out.

Hoffman claims money paid by Barclays had nothing to do with his Lehman Brothers contract

Hoffman, a global rates trader who made $30 million in 2007 and was the third...