By Jeff Harrington, Times Staff Writer
Friday, February 17, 2012
TAMPA
Rolling in a sleek, silver motor home through the streets of north Tampa, Jamie Dimon epitomizes a man on the move. Or, to be more precise, someone eager to move on. As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Dimon commanded a front-row seat in the financial debacle that mushroomed into the Great Recession. The combination of JPMorgan Chase's $25 billion bailout package and Dimon's own hefty paycheck ($21 million a year ago) made him a key target of Occupy Wall Street protestors. Mistakes were made, Dimon said during a bus tour visiting the megabank's Florida network. But it's time to move beyond a seemingly endless debate about who's to blame in the mortgage crisis; to move past vitriol over bank fees, the bailout, and America's widening wealth gap. "You need to stop denigrating business, because ...