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  • With AIG, Spitzer is Sheriff of Wall Street redux

    03/19/2009 5:55:49 PM PDT · by curth · 5 replies · 310+ views
    ASSociated Press ^ | 3/19 | MICHAEL HILL
    ALBANY, N.Y. – Eliot Spitzer has a few words to say about the AIG bonus brouhaha: I told you so. The former New York governor battered American International Group with charges of corruption long before his own dizzying downfall in a prostitution scandal. He has used this latest financial scandal to strike his old populist, Sheriff of Wall Street themes and, just maybe, mend his reputation — though critics contend that he bears a share of the blame for the insurance giant's historic near-collapse. Spitzer says the AIG bonus issue is "penny ante" compared to the billions of the insurer's...