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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    Backstory: Here's the article I'm jabbering about:


    [www.prospect-magazine.co.uk]


    Hmmm... David Hanger, current publisher of Prospect, came from being the Publisher and Director of the BoD at the Economist. Anatole's daughter still writes for the Economist according to sources close to the keyboard.


    Now, can you provide a list (discreetly) please of the pissy London AIG thugs? And find out which one of them is hiding Cassano?

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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    The problem isn't that were pissed off, it's that we're not pissed off enough. I can't beleive that guy got to have his resignation letter published in the New York Times.


    Here, spend an hour marinating on this after you read it:


    [www.rollingstone.com]

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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    03/26/09

    @gawkimo: I'm using my tax refund to buy a pitchfork and about a year's worth of canned food. This is not going to end well.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    Serious Organized Crime Agency? Overseen by the Ministery of Hypocrite Jerks???


    Well, well, well, first we get the world-melting revelation and limited admission of guilt by Anatole "RoastBeef" Kerensky-France at Prospect that economists are little more than pond scum. Now this. Going on the passive aggressive offensive are we? Time for bitty?


    The theorist in me always held out the hope that it was the rocket scientists that were using the criminals. It looks, however that the reverse is true. Kray twins trump Gervaise Appleton-Dunghill.

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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    03/26/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:


    Salman Rushdie may not read Gawker, but Krugman sure might. Here he emphasizes my point that Anatole "RoastBeef" Kerensky-France is really a shilly hacky flack:


    [krugman.blogs.nytimes.com]

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    Image of GuyBitchy GuyBitchy
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    Yeah, no moral reason at all. They did what they were paid to do--make big profits and bolt. Bringing down the U.S. econony was a negligible side effect, if not part of the plan.


    After all, in the long run, a cratered U.S. economy will be great for the big private banking institutions. Notice how they're already floating the idea of a new "international" currency the private bankers will inevitably use to wield even greater control over the global economy.


    As if they needed more... as if Goldman Sachs isn't running the show enough right now.


    The U.S. Treasury is their ATM, folks.

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    Image of mostlymartian mostlymartian
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    Everything about the way they got that money was legal, and it was money they were owed according to their employment contracts. It's not like a drug deal.


    Regulate better instead of thinking the free market will take care of everything. It wasn't just AIG executives and banks that got the world into this situation, it was voters.

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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    No need to appease the Americans; and should future U.S. policies and preferences become more restrictive toward the U.K., I am sure the British banking system can more than compensate their losses with their stakes in the continually flourishing and stable Russian and Arab economies.
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    Image of flossy flossy
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    I would like a job in the UK's Not So Serious Organized Crime Agency (NSSOCA). Just because monocle raqueteering, grand tea cup larceny and depraved bangers & mashery aren't life-threatening doesn't mean they don't need to be (politely) stamped out.
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    03/26/09

    @flossy: That would be the Humorous Disorganized Crime Agency. It's next to the Ministry of Silly Walks.
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    Dear Wankers:


    You work for AIG. an international corporation based in the United States, the government of which now owns 80% of the stock, assets, and toxic debts of your insolvent, disorganized company. If the London office would like to keep their bonuses, please contact Mr. Timothy F.Geithner in Washington D.C. and arrange to take the UK branch of AIG private. I am sure you will have no trouble raising the necessary capital so that your offices may operate independently of the corporation.


    Sincerely Yours,


    The torch and pitchfork brigade


    Sincerely Yours,

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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/26/09

    @PandoraSpocks: P.S.-- Your own country is in a state of Sovereign Insolvency. CHEERS!!
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    03/26/09

    @Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): PPS: Snooker is dumb!
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    Wait--Cuomo is italian, RIGHT!?! It MUST be organized crime! THose savvy Brits!
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    Image of Matthew_Maurice Matthew_Maurice
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    Back during the Thatcher 80s, The Housemartins had a liner note that read "don't gate crash a party full of bankers, burn the house down!" Sir Fred ought to be glad Fatboy Slim didn't show up.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/26/09

    @Matthew_Maurice: there are a billion reasons to be glad fatboy slim doesn't show up at a party in 2009. fear of him burning down a house is not one of them.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    well, what are you supposed to do when someone steals your drugs, huh?
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    Image of blix blix
    03/26/09

    @allyzay: Call Stashbusters?
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    Well, if Banque AIG is a separate legal entity, they kind of have a point.
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    03/26/09

    @TheHonJudgeSmails: See above.
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    Image of Artur Van Asinine Artur Van Asinine
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    Cuomo is an able administrator, but man i hope he never becomes governor.
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    Image of Solomon Grundy Solomon Grundy
    03/26/09

    @Artur Van Asinine: Hm, according to Wayne Barrett's excellent Voice coverage, the trait you praised is exactly what Cuomo's worst at: administration. Barrett makes a very good case that Cuomo's mismanagement of HUD entangled Fannie and Freddie into this subprime mess.


    In Barrett's words:


    Andrew Cuomo, the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history, made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country's current crisis. He took actions that-in combination with many other factors-helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded "kickbacks" to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why.

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    Image of friend_of_a_friend friend_of_a_friend
    03/26/09

    @Solomon Grundy: Can we ask for our elected offices back from all these self-aggrandizing, hypocritical politicians?
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    Oh those crazy Brits and their manners...PLEASE may we have the AIG money back.
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    03/26/09

    @misslinda: I've noticed a lot of laugh-at-the-Brits posts on this 'ere Gawker... well done for pointing out what Le Daily Mail does not!
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    03/26/09

    In reply to British AIG Execs Say the True Crime Is Demanding Their Bonuses Back
    Serious Organized Crime Agency would be a great name for a Trinidadan band.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    03/26/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: ah, SOCA, I see what you did there :[]
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