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AIG Still Hasm Paid Back Bonuses Which Sparked Outrage

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is a story about what happens when populist outrage flares white-hot and then quickly fades away. Last spring, thousands of angry protesters s...

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Roy Sekoff Discusses Latest AIG Bonus Outrage On 'The Ed Show' (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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HuffPost's Editor, Roy Sekoff, was on The Ed Show Wednesday night to discuss the latest AIG outrage: the refusal of company executives to follow throu...

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AIG Bonuses

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — American International Group Inc. is consulting with the federal government about its plans to pay millions of dollars in retention i...

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AIG Wants Charity Money Back To Pay Bonuses

New York Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Insurance giant AIG is trying to seize a $490 million charitable endowment -- and claw back $27 million it already awarded to New York charities -- to...

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AIG Bonuses: What Ever Happened?

New York Times | Steven M. Davidoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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We are now about a month past the bonus backlash at the American International Group. It was on March 16 that President Obama said he had asked Treasu...

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Yelling From the Back Step

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Toxic assets" are two words that don't belong together in the English language. The meaning of one cancels out the meaning of the other.

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Bonus Cry Baby

Roger Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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I went back to Mr. DeSantis' tear-stained letter of resignation, and tried to see if indeed his outrage at the very idea of being asked to give his bonus back possibly justified. I quickly concluded, No way.

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Fox Anchor Likens AIG Bonus Tax To Sexual Abuse

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today, Fox Business Network anchor Dagen McDowell appeared on Fox News to make the case against the tax on AIG bonuses by comparing it to sexual abuse...

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AIG's Six Year Saga Of Alleged Fraud

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 05.25.2011

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The recent outcry over $165 million in post-bailout bonus payments has put AIG on the hot seat. But, in fact, the bonus disbursement is perhaps the l...

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AIG Underbidding Insurance Rivals and Why We Should Be Really Angry

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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If AIG loses millions, or billions, in the future due to its "overly aggressive pricing" we are going to be picking up the tab.

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Obama Envoy Richard Holbrooke Served On AIG's Board

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Obama administration special envoy Richard Holbooke was on the American International Group Inc. board of directors in early 2008 w...

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Dodd: Treasury Officials Insisted On Weakening Bonus Provision

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Treasury Department demanded that Sen. Chris Dodd insert exemptions into the stimulus bill that allowed bailout recipients to receive bonuses, the...

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Who Is AIG's $6.5 Million Man?

The Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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**UPDATE: Mystery Man Revealed** On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that a number of AIG executives have decided to return their controve...

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Andrew Ross Sorkin Explains

Maciej Ceglowski | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sorkin argues that if we do not pay $165 million in performance bonuses to executives at the failed insurer, we risk chipping at the very foundations of the rule of law.

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Flashback: It Was Bush, GOP That Opposed Executive Compensation Caps

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is a rather curious spectacle to see congressional Republicans express outrage at the exorbitant bonuses being handed out by bailed-out companies a...

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AIG and the 'Road Not Taken'

Brian Shott | Posted 05.25.2011

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What does Robert Frost's famous poem have to do with the insurance giant, anyway?

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Wyden: My Bill Could Have Prevented AIG Mess

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Additional reporting by Arthur Delaney Senator Ron Wyden said on Tuesday that the furor surrounding AIG's bonus payments could have been avoided had...

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Treasury Will Use $30B Infusion To Compel AIG To Repay Bonuses

Wall Street Journal | JONATHAN WEISMAN and CHAD BRAY | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama, trying to contain a political firestorm, instructed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner "pursue every legal avenue" to block $...

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