Just in case you wondered if the pigs weren't still at the trough looking to take every dollar they could.
Oink, oink, oink per the WSJ:
Blackstone Group LP co-founder and Chief Executive Stephen Schwarzman collected about $690 million in dividends, compensation and fund payouts for 2014, according to a Friday regulatory filing, the highest annual payout ever notched by a founder of a publicly traded private-equity firm.
The amount represents a nearly 50% increase over Mr. Schwarzman’s 2013 figure and also tops the $546 million received in 2013 by Leon Black, who co-founded Apollo Global Management LLC. The tallies are according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of securities filings. For 2014, Mr. Black received $330.6 million, mostly in dividends, according to a filing from his firm Friday.
By the way, this is the same guy who has
a massive portrait of himself hanging in his home:
Short, grey-haired and softly-spoken, he is renowned for his exotic parties. His Christmas event was themed on 007, with Bond girls sashaying around with trays of nibbles. Then in February, he spent an estimated $3m on a birthday bash featuring private performances by Rod Stewart and Patti LaBelle at a regimental armoury on Manhattan's upper east side. The venue was decorated to look like Schwarzman's own living room, complete with a huge portrait of the host himself. Guests included Colin Powell, Donald Trump and mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Just guessing but this guy has a problem with size.