Massey, 71, has been a member of the Bank of America board since 1998 and during that time approved all of the Lewis deals that many shareholders were protesting by their votes.

He references one of his biggest mistakes as giving veto power to two investors on his board of directors, who abused that power and blocked him from doing good deals sometimes.

Mr Brown will remind voters of the suspicious share deals Ms Whitman enjoyed when she was on the board of Goldman Sachs, currently America’s favourite Wall Street bogeyman.