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The quartermaster runs the show on a pirate ship. The captain gets all the fanfare.

Seems obvious that the CFO was the main driver of the raid against the states, also in a position to easily blow up everything, so he takes the majority stake of the pillaging.

CFO writes the checks?

For the most part, C level comp of this type is defined ahead of time with the board, and based on formulas/targets that are often tied pretty closely to job function. Given that; it's not a big stretch to see how income like this ("for nothing") might factor into CFO far more than the others.

The CEO and the VP get the taste of the wig to not make much noise.

"taste of the wig"? I don't know that saying.. is it "wine"?

I suspect a typo for "vig", short for "vigorish".

Cheers. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vigorish