Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Obama Aims to Stop AIG Bonuses

After AIG announced that it would spend over $100 million on bonuses for staff this year, despite receiving billions in taxpayer dollars, President Obama has ordered Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner to stop the bonuses through any legal means, calling them an "outrage". AIG insists that it is contractually bound to pay the bonuses, which were promised before the financial disaster.



Source: New York Times

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