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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein received total compensation of $16.1 million in 2011, a 14 percent increase from the year before.

Top executives at three companies bailed out by U.S. taxpayers during the 2008 financial crisis were ordered to take pay cuts by the federal government.

An Associated Press analysis shows Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman was paid compensation worth $13 million in 2011, a 15 percent drop from the previous year.

Coal producer Alpha Natural Resources Inc. CEO Kevin Crutchfield received a pay package valued at more than $6.7 million in 2011, down 21 percent from 2010, according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing.

The Form 5500, Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan, is the form used to file an employee benefit plans annual information return with the Department of Labor (DOL).

An aircraft leasing subsidiary of insurance conglomerate American International Group Inc. said Tuesday that it has fully prepaid a $750 million secured term loan, lowering the unit's financing costs and cutting the number of aircraft it used as collateral.