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Another AIG Resort "Junket": Top Execs Caught on Tape
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... luxury resort in Phoenix last week. Reporters for ABC KNXV caught the AIG executives on hidden cameras poolside and leaving the spa at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort, despite apparent efforts by the company to disguise its involvement. "AIG made significant efforts to disguise the conference, making sure there were no AIG logos or signs anywhere on the property," KVNX reported. A hotel employee told KNXV reporter Josh Bernstein, "We can't even say the word (AIG)". Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/WallStreet/story?id=62239... Take it out of their pay. What a ...
AIG execs go on yet another resort junket
Daily Kos —
This morning, we learned that AIG received yet another $150 billion handout. And this afternoon, we learn that last week -- last week, people! -- AIG sent its top executives to a "secret gathering" at a posh luxury resort in Phoenix: Even as the company was pleading the federal government for another $40 billion dollars in loans, AIG sent top executives to a secret gathering at a luxury resort in Phoenix last week. Reporters for abc15.com (KNXV) caught the AIG executives on hidden cameras poolside and leaving the spa at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort, despite apparent efforts by the company to ...
AIG Still On Top of the World
Suburban Guerrilla —
Isn’t that special?
Even as the company was pleading the federal government for another $40 billion dollars in loans, AIG sent top executives to a secret gathering at a luxury resort in Phoenix last week.
Reporters for abc15.com (KNXV) caught the AIG executives on hidden cameras poolside and leaving the spa at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort, despite apparent efforts by the company to disguise its involvement.
“AIG made significant efforts to disguise the conference, making sure there were no AIG logos or signs anywhere ...
AIG’s $343K Party
Oliver Willis —
Please stop giving these morons billions and billions of our tax dollars and let them slide into the oblivion they deserve.
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AIG still throwing lavish parties with your money
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AIG still throwing lavish parties with your money posted at 8:15 am on November 11, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Want to know what an insurance company does with a brand-new bailout check of $150 billion in taxpayer money? Throw a big party , of course! AIG execs only had one rule for their big shindig in Phoenix this week — don’t mention the name AIG: In addition to the nearly 150 independent financial planners in Phoenix for training and education, the conference attendee list was a Who’s Who of AIG leaders, including Larry Roth, President & CEO, AIG Advisor Group; Art Tambaro, ...
The Daily Muck
TPMMuckraker —
... in taxpayer money Monday. The company has already apologized for its October spree at the lavish St. Regis resort in California, which occurred shortly after the company received its first multi-billion dollar infusion from the government. It does at least appear that AIG has stuck to its promise to take the current economic conditions into account. This time, the company tried to keep the event secret. (New York Times/ABC) ...
ABC Catches AIG Executives Hosting Another Posh ‘Junket’ At Luxury Hotel
Think Progress —
Last month, a House committee discovered that just one week after the federal government bailed out insurance giant AIG, company executives went on $500,000 retreat to a luxury resort. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) asked in astonishment, “Have you heard of anything more outrageous?”
But yesterday, just as the federal government agreed to increase its bailout package to AIG, ABC News’s Brian Ross reported that the company’s executives gathered last week at a posh resort in Phoenix for a business conference, complete with “cocktail parties, limousines, and dinner out at a top ...
BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 12, 2008
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BUZZFLASH MAILBAG Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here . You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net ; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip.html . Subject: New Low "The Palins hit a new low, allowing 7-year-old Piper to do brief Today Show..." I'd say a publication mentioning this brief interview may be seen as exploitive and hitting a low... especially if they did not criticize the Obama kids' brief interview on that infotainment show a few months ago. Maezeppa Los Angeles CA Subject: IMAGINARY SEXISM? Why is it ...
