they knew long before 3/3
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aRlALpvxQyZo&refer=home
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=auhzcUg60VZA&refer=home
...Can you say smoking gun?
Nov. 26, 2008 (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the insurer that said yesterday it scrapped bonuses for top executives after a U.S. bailout, “ will still pay 130 managers “cash awards” to stay with the firm,” including $3 million to retirement services chief Jay Wintrob.
Wintrob, 51, will get the “retention” payment in two installments, the first in April 2009 and the rest a year later, New York-based AIG said today in a regulatory filing.....