Now that TPM's reporting the likelihood those bonuses will be paid to avoid expensive legal battles, that leaves us with few options to mitigate the public outrage.  It's like someone  put a lid on a pot of boiling water, but did not turn down the heat. 

Something's going to boil over.

One of the best ways to simmer this down would be to automatically invite every bonus recipient, foreign OR domestic, to pay a visit to one or another pertinent congressional committee, and those who refuse to show up willingly could be compelled to do so, especially those domestic "bonees".

Put a high personal-privacy price tag on those bonuses, so that in the future, brokers will consider their actions seriously BEFORE they collapse the markets, rather than after it is too late, and rather than obediently rolling over for their CEO's in these fraudulent schemes, they might temper their greed with caution and offer those CEO's some practical resistance.

As the story unfolds, I am even more convinced this is hush money to assure none of those brokers will spill the beans on their bosses.  If we have no option but to pay the bonuses, then lets follow up with some investigations that use the same list to get to the bottom of the economic debacle we are struggling to climb out of.

Their rather difficult catch-22 is that, to hush them up, the "boners" will identify the "bonees" for all the world to see, especially if Cuomo gets his lists.

We should include a very nice formal invitation to visit Congress, with every bonus check.