Max Abelson, a Bloomberg reporter who specializes in stories that make very rich and powerful finance guys look like horrible assholes, today turns his attention to Andrew Hall, the oil trader who received a $100 million annual payday from Citigroup just after the entire global economy collapsed, thereby becoming a bit of a... negative symbol, in the public's mind.

Citigroup has solved its Andrew Hall problem. The man in charge of the bank's commodities trading unit, Philbro—and the man who'd created a major headache in recent weeks since he'd been guaranteed a bonus of $100 million while Citigroup still owes the federal government $45 billion—will have a new parent by the end of the year. Citi has announced it's selling the unit to the oil company Occidental Petroleum. One problem down, only a few thousand more to go! [Reuters]