Title: Their companies went belly-up, but they walked away with a fortune
Source: MSNBC
Date: 10/1/2008

From the article:

Even as some of the nation’s biggest financial firms were hitting the skids, the CEOs who ran these companies were cashing in.

Here’s a list of chief executives who oversaw monumental failures that led the nation’s financial system to the edge but were still able to walk away with big payouts.