Calabria: Dodd’s Connecticut Kickback

David Freddoso Washington Examiner 4/27/2010

CATO’s Mark Calabria writes in the New York Post that the financial reform bill’s “too big to fail” provisions would not necessarily have applied to AIG because financial institutions structured as insurance companies aren’t automatically covered:

The Senate bill, sponsored by Democrat Chris Dodd, claims to subject all “too big […]

Top Female AIG Executive Fights For Pay

Anastasia Kelly Broke Glass Ceiling Only to Find a Government Imposed Salary Cap

By RICH BLAKE ABC News Dec. 30, 2009

Before making partner at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering more than a decade ago, Anastasia Kelly once participated in a conference call while she was in labor delivering twins.

In 2006, […]

TARP Audit Finds Geithner Gave Away The Farm

Posted by Jill Schlesinger CBS News November 17, 2009

Special Inspector General for TARP (aka “SIG TARP”) Neil Barofsky said something we’ve all known for a while: the government gave away the farm when AIG failed.

If you recall, AIG’s failure meant that the companies on the other side of all of its contracts (counterparties) […]

Dodd produced language that allowed ‘pay czar’ Feinberg to cut salaries

By VICTORIA MCGRANE Politico.com 10/23/09

Remember all the heat Sen. Chris Dodd took earlier this year over writing the loophole in the stimulus that let AIG executives collect $165 million in bonuses?

But that same provision had another key section – the authority for a White House pay czar to slash top executive pay at […]

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