- Yesterday AIG paid out $450 million in "retention bonuses" to executives in its Financial Services Group, the out-of-control derivatives trading arm that looted the company, destroyed its stock and contracted for huge bonuses even after they saw the risk of collapse.
- The $450 million was just a portion of the $1.2 billion AIG paid out in bonuses across the board within a company that lost $100 billion last year.
- Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, wants to try and recover these bonuses.
- American taxpayers now own $80% of AIG after paying $173 billion to keep it afloat.
- Larry Summers says the government simply can't break the contracts that AIG had with executives, even as the Treasury is forcing auto companies to break their labor contracts as a condition of receiving TARP funds.
- Meanwhile, 21% of Americans are struggling to pay for the health care, and going without treatments they need.
Tell Congress—no more money for banks until they tell us where it has all gone.
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