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AIG bonus scandal

AIG execs agree to return US$50M bonuses: officials

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Monday that 15 employees who received some of the largest bonuses from American International Group Inc. have agreed to return the more than $30 million worth of payments in full. Full story

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2009-03-24 08:28:07 GMT SINA.com WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve's chairman and the secretary of the treasury are making a rare joint appearance at a congressional hearing, ostensibly to take a scolding over the handling of bonuses at AIG, the giant insurance company that has become the symbol of reckless risk-taking on Wall Street.

AIG top employees agree to return big bonuses

2009-03-24 07:36:02 GMT SINA.com NEW YORK, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen of 20 top employees who received some of the biggest bonuses from American International Group (AIG) have agreed to return them back in full, which is more than 30 million dollars, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Monday.

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2009-03-22 22:12:00 GMT SINA.com FAIRFIELD, Conn. – A busload of activists representing working- and middle-class families paid visits Saturday to the lavish homes of American International Group executives to protest the tens of millions of dollars in bonuses awarded by the struggling insurance company after it received a massive federal bailout.

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