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Tim Geithner Testimony: AIG Bailout Wasn't Intended To Benefit Individual banks

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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We'll be posting regular updates of today's testimony at the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's hearing on the bailout of AIG -- whi...

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Fed E-Mails On AIG Show Disdain For Transparency

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Emails between senior Federal Reserve Board officials obtained by the Huffington Post reveal an organization dedicated to resisting transparency -- so...

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Fed Wanted All Communications From AIG Run By Its Law Firm

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the controversy over massive AIG overpayments to its counterparties -- paid for with government money -- has unfolded, one key question has been ju...

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Fed's AIG Bailout: Bernanke Requests A 'Full Review' From Government Watchdog

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke took the unusual step Tuesday of asking Congress's investigative arm to conduct a "full review" of the Fed's rol...

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Tip of the Iceberg

Eliot Spitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

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The AIG emails are the 'black box' of the financial crisis. If we understand the failure of AIG, we will more fully understand the crisis -- what caused it and how to prevent it from happening again.

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Geithner's New York Fed Told AIG To Limit Swaps Disclosure

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: This post was updated at 2:15 p.m. to reflect new information obtained by the Huffington Post regarding an ongoing investigation into these ma...

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Geithner's Time to Give Answers

Rep. Darrell Issa | Posted 05.25.2011

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Inadvertent reporting errors are one thing. Directing a bailed-out company to withhold crucial information from a government agency in order to keep the American public in the dark is another.

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Spitzer: "Geithner's Disgrace"

Slate Magazine | Eliot Spitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

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The issue has been festering for months: Why were AIG's counterparties -- including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and UBS -- paid 100 cents on the do...

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Tim Geithner: Henhouse Fox. Thanks Again, Obama!

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 05.25.2011

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What kind of two-ton albatrosses is Obama & Co. hanging around the neck of the Democrats with appointments like Geithner's?

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Geithner Aides Worked With AIG For Months On Bonuses

Wall Street Journal | MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS and SUDEEP REDDY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Since the fall, senior aides to Timothy Geithner have closely dealt with American International Group Inc. on compensation issues includ...

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Democrats Grumbling: Time For Geithner To Go

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, under fire for his handling of the bonuses paid to AIG executives, faces a critical weekend as he fights to remai...

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Many In Government Knew Weeks Ago About Huge AIG Bonus Program

New York Times | EDMUND L. ANDREWS and JACKIE CALMES | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The question was direct and prescient. Representative Joseph Crowley, Democrat of New York, asked the Treasury secretary in an open hear...

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Dangling from the AIG Noose - Our Slow and Painful Strangulation

Sheila Tendy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Where are these AIG contracts, anyway? They should be put in the public domain so every lawyer in America can give an opinion about their meaning and validity.

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