Prescott Bush was a Wall Street executive investment banker from Connecticut.
 According to Bloomberg Wall Street's five biggest firms paid over $3 billion to their executives from 2003 to 2008, "while they presided over the packaging and sale of loans that helped bring down the investment-banking system"
The highly generous pay packages include $172 million for Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal from 2003 to 2007, before it was bought by Bank of America in 2008, and $161 million for Bear Stearns' James Cayne before the bank collapsed and was sold to JPMorgan Chase in June 2008

