The second highest-paying financial services firm for vice presidents: Capital One.

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And Adam introduced me to two of the people who work here, two vice presidents who've seen and survived past financial crises, Will Aston-Reese and Tom Corona.

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The other vice presidents kept silent, says Steel, who had previously been chief financial officer at chipmaker Xilinx.

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Then, on April 16th, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman, Sachs and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the U.S. housing market was beginning to falter.

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