AIG FP Chief: Taxpayer Ire Over Bonuses “Probably Hurt Taxpayers” | Talking Points Memo

Last month AIG Financial Products head Gerry “Che” Pasciucco met with employees of the unit that took down the economy, and relayed a request from upper management that they return those controversial “retention bonuses,” adding that he felt the request was tantamount to blackmail. But he was only thinking of us taxpayers, he tells today’s Wall Street Journal, in a story that says 20 AIG FP employees — not including the unashamed bonus keeper Jake DeSantis, who published his resignation letter in the New York Times — had quit amid the controversy:


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