The Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing whether Bank of America broke the law by not telling shareholders about Merrill Lynch's plan to pay out $3.6bn in bonuses before they voted for a government-backed merger of the two banks.
Merrill paid the bonuses in December, days before it was acquired by BofA and a month before bonuses were normally dispensed.
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