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Connecticut's attorney general says documents turned over to his office by American International Group Inc. shows the company paid out $218 million in bonuses, higher than the $165 million previously disclosed.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's office received the documents late Friday after issuing a subpoena.

Blumenthal says the documents show that 73 people received at least $1 million apiece, and five of those got bonuses of more than $4 million. The financially ailing insurance giant has been under fire for giving bonuses after receiving more than $182.5 billion in federal bailout money.

AIG (nyse: AIG - news - people ) spokesman Mark Herr declined to comment Saturday.

Blumenthal said the newly revealed number will "further fuel the justified anger and revulsion that people feel."

They fell from some of the most powerful positions on earth.

In Pictures: 11 Top Bosses Who Got The Boot in 2008

The bloodletting in the c-suite started in 2007. It still hasn't stopped.

Another year goes by and more chief executives get the ax--probably more than in any previous year. People shook their heads when Charles Prince III at Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ) and Stanley O'Neal at Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) got the boot in 2007. Now it look like they were lucky. They got out just in time.

Martin Sullivan of American International Group (nyse: AIG - news - people ) (let go in June), Kerry Killinger at Washington Mutual (nyse: WM - news - people ) (September) and Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEHMQ - news - people ) (leaving next month) are among the biggest names to be shown the door as a result of the economic crisis.

Their distinguished company includes James Cayne of the now-deceased Bear Stearns and Richard Syron and Daniel Mudd, the former CEOs of the mortgage buyers Freddie Mac (nyse: FRE - news - people ) and Fannie Mae (nyse: FNM - news - people ).

"There are two kinds of CEO firings," says Noel Tichy, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. "There are the crooks and there are the incompetents." This year the biggest departing names all fell into a gray area in between.

None was as corrupt as the executives embroiled in the infamous Enron and Tyco scandals of a decade ago, but you couldn't just say they were simply stupid either. CEOs in the financial services industry discovered that they had allowed their companies to take suicidal risks with other people's money based on bad or staggeringly incomplete information. Many of them have paid with their jobs.

In Pictures: 11 Top Bosses Who Got The Boot in 2008

Despite their prominence, these headline names compose just a small fraction of the 1,361 U.S. CEOs who left their jobs this year through November. That's up from 1,356 in all 12 months of last year. The final 2008 number may prove to be a record, beating the previous one of 1,478 set in 2006, according to data collected by the management consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

American International Group (nyse: AIG - news - people ) announced Monday that it had sold its wealth management subsidiary to Aabar Investments, a global investment company based in Abu Dhabi. A spokesman for AIG did not wish to reveal the value of the transaction, however Aabar said in a press release on its Web site that it had paid $254.0 million for AIG Private Bank, “subject to a post closing price adjustment based on the net asset value and assets under management of the bank at closing.”

Aabar said it would also assume $83.0 million in debt outstanding as a part of the transaction. AIG did not return phone calls to confirm the sale amount in time for publication.

AIG has kept taxpayers and shareholders, who own 80.0% and 20.0% of the firm, respectively, largely in the dark ever since the insurer received its first $85.0 billion lifeline back in September from the U.S. government. Details about the firm’s troubles and the government’s ad hoc bailout strategy have remained hazy even as taxpayer borrowings ballooned to $152.0 billion in early November.

AIG Private Bank, which currently has $8.3 billion in assets under management, will assume a new name, become an independent financial institution and will be headquartered in Switzerland along with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Dubai. It will continue to focus on providing wealth management services to high-net worth individuals in Switzerland, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

News of the sale might have boosted investor morale but not this time. New York-based AIG fell 7.5%, or 15 cents, to $1.86. The plan for the insurer to sell off its parts and pay back the the U.S. government and emerge as a profitable enterprise may be losing its credibility. (See "Ackman: Yes, we Have No AIG")