A.I.G. Planning $165 Million in Bonuses After Huge Bailout

The American International Group, which has received more than $170 billion in taxpayer bailout money from the Treasury and Federal Reserve, plans to pay about $165 million in bonuses by Sunday to 400 executives in the same business unit that brought the company to the brink of collapse last year.Word of the bonuses last week stirred such deep consternation inside the Obama administration that Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner told the firm they were ... Full Story »

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Fabrice Florin
3.9
by Fabrice Florin - Mar. 15, 2009

Informative report on AIG's plan to pay bonuses to its executives, a story initially broken by the Washington Post. This article provides timely and useful factual evidence about AIG's executive compensation program, though some of that information comes from anonymous sources and stakeholders in the story, without any independent confirmations. Nonetheless, this breaking news piece seems well-reported, and provides helpful context about this important topic.

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