Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:29:13 PM
Did you see Geithners grand plan to get the bonuses repaid?
"AIG will repay taxpayers for bonuses, Geithner says"
By Rex Nutting
Last update: 9:37 p.m. EDT March 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Treasury Department will order failed insurance giant American International Group Inc. to repay the taxpayers up to $165 million that the company is giving employees as bonuses, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Tuesday. In a letter to congressional leaders, Geithner said the government can't block the payments, which are being made under contracts signed before the government stepped in with $173 billion to prevent AIG from going bankrupt.
Acknowledging "considerable outrage" about the bonus payments, Geithner said AIG will pay the Treasury an amount equal to the payments, and the Treasury will deduct that amount from the $30 billion in government assistance that will soon go to the company.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/aig-repay-taxpayers-165-million/story.aspx?guid=%7B3B94EA58%2D048F%2D41CC%2D9DCF%2DBB48BC6989E6%7D&siteid=bnbh
"AIG will repay taxpayers for bonuses, Geithner says"
By Rex Nutting
Last update: 9:37 p.m. EDT March 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Treasury Department will order failed insurance giant American International Group Inc. to repay the taxpayers up to $165 million that the company is giving employees as bonuses, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Tuesday. In a letter to congressional leaders, Geithner said the government can't block the payments, which are being made under contracts signed before the government stepped in with $173 billion to prevent AIG from going bankrupt.
Acknowledging "considerable outrage" about the bonus payments, Geithner said AIG will pay the Treasury an amount equal to the payments, and the Treasury will deduct that amount from the $30 billion in government assistance that will soon go to the company.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/aig-repay-taxpayers-165-million/story.aspx?guid=%7B3B94EA58%2D048F%2D41CC%2D9DCF%2DBB48BC6989E6%7D&siteid=bnbh
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