World-News

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/geithner-aig-fed.html

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Geithner's New York Fed Pushed AIG to Keep Sweetheart Deals Secret
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/07-5

AIG Bonuses: Back at the Trough
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/03-7

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Tip of the Iceberg

Eliot Spitzer, William Black and Frank Partnoy, New Deal 2.0: "In a December New York Times op-ed, we called for the full public release of AIG email messages, internal accounting documents and financial models generated in the last decade. Today, a Bloomberg story revealed that under Timothy Geithner's leadership, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York told AIG to withhold details from the public about its payments to banks during the crisis. This information was discovered when emails between the company and the Fed were requested by representative Darrell Issa, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee."

http://www.truthout.org/article/spitzer-black-and-partnoy-tip-iceberg



AIG-Gate: The World's Greatest Insurance Heist

Ellen Brown, Truthout: "Rumor has it that Timothy Geithner is on his way out as Treasury Secretary due to his involvement in the AIG scandal that is now unraveling in hearings before the House Oversight and Reform Committee."

http://www.truthout.org/aig-gate-the-worlds-greatest-insurance-heist56809

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Bailout watchdog investigating Fed’s AIG secrecy

Thibodaux Daily Comet

01/25/10

An independent investigator is launching two probes into the government’s rescue of American International Group Inc. and the insurer’s subsequent payments of billions to big banks. Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, says the Fed withheld documents he requested when auditing AIG’s ‘backdoor bailouts’ of banks it did business with, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ...

http://tinyurl.com/ygqbech



Pay czar playing hardball with AIG

ABC News

01/25/10

Ken Feinberg, the Obama administration’s pay czar, is insisting that bailout recipient AIG fulfill pledges from its employees to return portions of their controversial 2009 retention payments, ABC News has learned. When the insurance giant — the recipient of a record $182 billion in taxpayer aid — dished out $168 million last March, there was massive popular backlash...

http://tinyurl.com/yffj5nj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Geithner Told To Quit After E Mails Reveal Involvement In AIG Cover-up

John Mica slams Treasury Secretary's "lame excuses" during fiery hearing

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s denial that he played any role in the AIG cover-up is contradicted by emails which confirm that both Geithner and the New York Federal Reserve were both intimately involved in keeping details about payments to banks including Goldman Sachs from the public.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/geithner-told-to-quit-after-e-mails-reveal-involvement-in-aig-cover-up.html



Bloomberg: Maybe A Secret Banking Cabal Does Run The World After All

AIG cover-up proof that "conspiracy theorists" aren't so crazy, writes columnist

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, January 29, 2010

In another measure of how what the establishment labels “conspiracy theory” is quickly becoming mainstream, Bloomberg News carries a story today acknowledging that those derided as “crazy” for warning that the world is run by a secret banking cabal have largely been proven right in light of the AIG cover-up.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bloomberg-maybe-a-secret-banking-cabal-does-run-the-world-after-all.html

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Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows

By David Reilly

The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week's congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder if those folks are crazy after all.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24534.htm



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