AIG Exec "Digs" Che Guevara?

The gentleman second from the right in the picture below, Gerry Pasciucco, heads the AIG Financial Products unit. "We learned over the weekend,Che fan" reads a letter dated March 17 from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to Rep. Barney Frank, that AIG had, last Friday, distributed more than $160 million in retention payments (bonuses) to members of its Financial Products Subsidiary, the unit of AIG that was principally responsible for the firm's meltdown."

This picture will surprise only those who take their Che Guevara cues from the MSM and Hollywood. On the other hand this comes from P. 24 of a certain right-wing crackpot book:

Perfectly fitting, considering Che Guevara's role as Cuba's "Minister of the Economy"--where he plunged a nation with a higher-per-capita income than half of Europe and a huge influx of immigrants to one that resembles a police-state Haiti.

Gerry Pasciucco, head of head of AIG Financial Products, former vice chairman of Morgan Stanley, Che T-shirt

"AIG's Small London Office May Have Lost $500B"
Ground zero for AIG's spectacular implosion, which has soaked up more federal bailout money
than any other entity, appears to have been a small London branch office
that may have lost nearly half a trillion dollars in bad deals."

"Sen. Dodd has been rewarded in the 2008 election cycle with $7.65 million in campaign contributions
he took in $11.7 million in all — from the securities, insurance, real-estate and commercial-banking industries...
Citigroup, $310,294; SAC Capital Partners, $282,000; United Technologies, $263,400; AIG, $224,678; Bear Stearns, $205,600; St. Paul Travelers, $205,400; Royal Bank of Scotland, $203,750;
Goldman Sachs, $175,600; Morgan Stanley, $155,000; Credit Suisse, $154,550; Merrill Lynch, $134,950; The Hartford, $94,350; Bank of America, $91,300;
JPMorgan Chase, $129,150; USB, $101,900; Hartford Finance Services, $101,500, Lehman Brothers, $128,400; KPMG, $113,100; General Electric, $108,250; Deloitte Touche, $108,000
With $165,400, Sen. Dodd also tops the list of members of Congress who took campaign cash from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac since 1989.
Sen. Barack Obama, the self-styled agent of change, is a distant second at $126,000...."

Obama Received A $101,332 Bonus From AIG

4 posted on 03/18/2009 9:24:32 AM PDT by NavVet ( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)

Pasciucco is a big Democrat donor. At Morgan Stanley he began his rapid rise in 2002 when the Global Capital Markets (GCM)Group was created. He was the senior GCM banker in New York. Incredibly, he escaped Morgan Stanley unscathed although the outfit was within a hair’s breadth of bankruptcy last October. Only the swift action by John Mack to halt the bearish raid on the company saved the joint. I guess it still holds true: Foul Up and Move UP.

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