Our news partner, The Seattle Times, reports that a lawsuit by regulators against the founder and former chief of City Bank, Conrad Hanson, paints him as bullying the board of directors into paying him sky-high bonuses before the Lynnwood bank’s 2010 failure.

For 2006, he proposed a $1.6 million cash bonus on top of a $600,000 salary, according to a $41 million negligence lawsuit the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. filed last Monday.

“Let’s Cut To The Chase!” Hanson wrote in a September 2006 email to the board, according to the suit. “If the group thinks my request and recommendation are inappropriate for any reason, I’M PREPARED TO STEP DOWN!”

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