• By   • Jacqueline Palank Associated Press/DAPD  Former Kodak
employees who fear for their pensions and other benefits are
urging a bankruptcy judge to think of them and not rubber-stamp
$8.8 million in executive bonuses.    Kodak’s plan proposes to
set aside $8.8 million in cash and deferred stock for 15 “key
management employees,” including nine executives, deemed
“essential” to Kodak’s ability to successfully restructure. What
does Kodak consider a successful restructuring? The company must
exit bankruptcy either under a standalone reorganization plan or
the sale of its assets as a going concern, and it must pay
unsecured creditors at least 30% of what they’re owed. (Creditor
recoveries between 10% and 30% would still warrant bonuses, but
they’d be less than $8.8 million.)  Pignataro, who says he is a
Kodak retiree, wrote that he was “outraged” to learn that Kodak
Chief Executive Antonio Perez would “even ask to be included”
among the bonus recipients “after he led the company into
bankruptcy.”  Perez’s e