I think this is the short version of this Times of London article:
Hours before its bankruptcy filing, Lehman Brothers transferred $8 billion from its U.K. branch to its U.S. branch. The London branch can’t pay its employees, can’t pay its counterparties, and has a hole in its pension plan. The U.S. branch is about to be acquired by Barclay’s, which in turn is going to pay out $2.5 billion in bonuses to the folks who managed Lehman into the ground and who had the sign-off on the asset transfer and on the sale to Barclay’s.