AIG chiefs pressed to donate to Dodd

Washington Times ^ | 3/30/09 | Jennifer Haberkorn

[anniegetyourgun]

As Democrats prepared to take control of Congress after the 2006 elections, a top boss at the insurance giant American International Group Inc. told colleagues that Sen. Christopher J. Dodd was seeking re-election donations and he implored company executives and their spouses to give.

Getty Images Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, has lost some political standing heading into re-election because of his ties to American International Group Inc.

The message in the Nov. 17, 2006, e-mail from Joseph Cassano, AIG Financial Products chief executive, was unmistakable: Mr. Dodd was "next in line" to be chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, which oversees the insurance industry, and he would "have the opportunity to set the committee's agenda on issues critical to the financial services industry.

[Dante3]

Dodd and Frank should resign.

[Windcatcher]

They should be prosecuted for graft.

[Lurker]

Dodd and Frank should resign.

Actually they should be running for their lives....

[Bigun]

Tar, feathers, and rails come to mind.

There was a time in this country when exactly that would have been the news of the day.

[missnry]

Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, has lost some political standing heading into re-election because of his ties to American International Group Inc.

Give me a break!! These character traits are resume enhancers in the Democrat party!

[skr]

Tar and feathers, jail, not necessarily in that order.

[skr]

You beat me to it; I almost mentioned rails, too.

[freeangel]

I sure hope some of those “persecuted” AIG chiefs have this on tape. It wold make for a fun “after obama self adulation presser” story.

[Kakaze]

This, is why Dodd and Bawney Frank, find some one to demonize every day, to deflect attention from their own crimes.

[mojo114]

Thanks for your info. As a citizen of CT the awful part is it won’t matter. With the unions, Acorn and the other assorted left wing groups gaining control of the cities here, it will be difficult to get a clean election.
Dodd should resign. Doubtful that will happen.

[silverleaf]

I wonder how Dodd’s AIG donations will look for 2010..

[Kent C]

Cassano’s (CDS ‘specialist’ at AIGFP) contributions:

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?last=cassano&first=joseph

[Diogenesis]

"Top 20 Recipients of AIG Contributions in 2008"

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"Sen Dodd (D-Conn) is THE lawmaker who legislated US government protection for AIG bonuses via the bailout package."

"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...."

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"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."

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Obama Received A $101,332 Bonus From AIG

[Graybeard58]

Dodd and Frank should resign.

They should be cell mates.

[mimaw]

They should resign or do the honorable thing and commit suicide.

[MinuteGal]

Ah, all the nasty little secrets are starting to seep out now, aren't they!

Yum, yum.

Leni

[bvw]

I demand the immediate resignation of Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank for abuse of office, extortion, accepting bribes and other high crimes and misdemeanors!

[KC_Conspirator]

Can you imagine the outrage in the msm if these people had (R)’s next to their names?

[Tunehead54]

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