Image via Wikipedia So the judge caved after all: Bank of America gets away with a $150 million fine — the equivalent of a corporate wrist-slap; its executives get off scott free; it doesn’t have to give the government a say in its choice of compensation consultants; and shareholders, as usual, are left holding the bag. Let me get this out of my system first: The only thing that makes sense is to force BofA to distribute that $150 million as a special dividend to its shareholders of record at the time it purchased Merrill. Seems easy and fair — so of course it doesn’t seem to have even been