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Ex AIG chairman joins Hall of No Shame

Posted by: msgruntled on: April 3, 2009

Let’s welcome to the Hall Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, former head of AIG, who yesterday told Congress he had NOTHING to do with the rabbit hole AIG’s Financial Products division took the country down. It’s all the fault of the managers who succeeded him, he said. When asked if his miserly charity would give any money back to taxpayers, Greenberg said: “You can go out on the street and start collecting.”

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Evidently, abject failure is a plus on some résumés

Posted by: msgruntled on: November 15, 2008

AIG now wants to hand out $500 million in deferred compensation to its executives, because, get this, they don’t want to lose these “talented” employees.

What talent exactly would that be?

AIG’s sudden empathy attack

Posted by: msgruntled on: November 10, 2008

AIG is suddenly concerned about the American economy and its shareholders. Where were they when they took on all those risky investments to make a buck?


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