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>whether compliance personnel should receive stock incentives.

I don't this is about underpaying them but rather about legal complexities of inherent conflict of interest between compliance and stock based compensation. E.g. You don't want a compliance officer to look in the other direction to ensure her stock appreciates. This seems like a reasonable question/topic for a meeting of lawyers.

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They are conflicted themselves; secretly (sources won't even reveal their identities) managing board relationships and deciding on compensation matters. The question is reasonable, the secrecy isn't. The question should be addressed openly.

> the secrecy isn't

They won't reveal their identities to Bloomberg. This is like saying "Apple won't release attendance and transcripts of its executive meetings to the New York Times; therefore, they are up to no good".

Seems more similar to, "Jobs and Schmidt are emailing and we think it's about wages".

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