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  1. aggravating insurance giants
    Hank Greenberg to Be Reunited With Beloved RugAfter years of disputes, the former AIG CEO gets his rug back.
    By Jessica Pressler
  2. aggravating insurance giants
    Hurting AIG Is the Same As Hurting OurselvesIt would be like cutting, but instead we’d bleed money.
    By Jessica Pressler
  3. bankers
    The Dancing Baby BankerWatch an animation based on this week’s cover story about the fight over AIG bonuses.
    By Lindsay Robertson and Jonah Green
  4. the geithnerator
    Geithner Paid AIG Counterparties in Full Because He ‘Lacked Leverage’ With BanksTo which TARP inspector general Neil Barofsky says: “Hello, you’re their regulator. THAT’S your leverage.”
    By Jessica Pressler
  5. aggravating insurance giants
    AIG CEO Throws Temper Tantrum, Threatens to QuitThree months into the job, Robert Benmosche realizes he’s signed on to do the impossible.
    By Jessica Pressler
  6. bad business deals
    As NY Fed President, Tim Geithner Charged $13 Billion of Crappy CDOs to Taxpayer TabAwkward.
    By Jessica Pressler
  7. aggravating insurance giants
    Former AIG Head Starts New Company Just Like AIGHank Greenberg loves insurance.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  8. what other people think
    Pay Czar’s Plan Getting Low MarksIs Ken Feinberg’s plan to cut Wall Street’s pay an effective smackdown, or a case of too little, too late?
    By Jessica Pressler
  9. white men with deep mediterranean tans
    Robert Benmosche Promises Employees That Mean Man Won’t Take Their MoneyThe special master will not try to claw back any compensation from employees, the AIG CEO says in a memo.
    By Jessica Pressler
  10. aggravating insurance giants
    Live at AIG HeadquartersPart of 70 Pine Street, the old AIG headquarters in the financial district, will be converted into residential condominiums.
    By Jessica Pressler
  11. aggravating insurance giants
    AIG Goes to Great Lengths to Retain Its Kitchen TalentThe insurer awarded a $7,700 bonus to a kitchen assistant.
    By Jessica Pressler
  12. wall street
    Pay Czar Tells AIG to Start SlashingFeinberg demands AIG reduce $198 million in bonuses.
  13. white men with deep mediterranean tans
    Pay Czar Decides AIG CEO Is Worth Our MoneyThe special master for compensation is expected to approve a $10.5 million pay package for Robert Benmosche.
    By Jessica Pressler
  14. aggravating insurance giants
    Notorious AIG Executive’s Home Is Disappointingly ModestJoe Cassano’s house “only has two bedrooms,” according to a spy. And his ride is uncool, too.
    By Jessica Pressler
  15. maybe snoopy tolerated that mouth but not uncle sam
    Economic Adviser Scolds AIG CEO for His ‘Cheekiness’CEO Robert Benmosche had better watch his mouth around the people who pay his salary.
    By Jessica Pressler
  16. scenes from a meltdown
    Who Came Off Best in The New Yorker’s Epic Crisis Story?We pick a winner, because the world needs more heroes.
    By Jessica Pressler
  17. aggravating insurance giants
    Feds May Finally Be Ready to Put the Screws to Joe CassanoThe AIG Financial Products head widely accused of burning down the place might face criminal charges. Maybe.
    By Jessica Pressler
  18. the cuddle muddle
    David Paterson Hoping to Win Points by Defending Wall Street Bonuses?Another winning strategy.
    By Dan Amira
  19. white men with deep mediterranean tans
    Bob Benmosche Had a Long Talk With Bob Benmosche About His MouthThe board doesn’t have to tell the AIG CEO to tone it down, he says. “I’ve already told it to myself.”
    By Jessica Pressler
  20. white men with deep mediterranean tans
    Bob Benmosche Understands That Bob Benmosche Screwed Up“If there is anybody critical of Bob, it is Bob,” said the AIG CEO.
    By Jessica Pressler
  21. white men with deep mediterranean tans
    AIG CEO ‘Regrets’ Threatening to Purple-Nurple Andrew CuomoAIG CEO Robert Benmosche reportedly “regrets his comments regarding Mr. Cuomo and the tone of those comments.”
    By Jessica Pressler
  22. aggravating insurance giants
    Robert Benmosche Promises Andrew Cuomo the Worst Day of His Life“The worst thing that will ever happen to him is when he and I meet in the room and I close the door,” the new AIG CEO warns.
    By Jessica Pressler
  23. conspiracies
    Goldman Sachs Had Another Reason to Want AIG Bailed OutThey need them to pay their rent.
    By Jessica Pressler
  24. If It’s Not One Thing, It’s AnotherThe hazing of AIG’s new CEO continues.
    By Jessica Pressler
  25. New AIG CEO Taking a Much-Needed VacationPoor Robert Benmosche. He just started yesterday, and already he needs a breather.
    By Jessica Pressler
  26. Four Ways the WSJ Calls New AIG CEO FatRobert Benmosche is already getting abused.
    By Jessica Pressler
  27. aggravating insurance giants
    AIG Reports ProfitsUm, yay?
    By Chris Rovzar
  28. today in swiftly settled lawsuits
    Former AIG Head Hank Greenberg Accused of Fraud, Swiftly SettlesBut not because he’s guilty! Because he is innocent.
    By Jessica Pressler
  29. AIG’s New CEO Fired SnoopyYES. THIS is the kind of guy we need running that taco stand.
    By Jessica Pressler
  30. aggravating insurance giants
    AIG Has Created a Fantasy World Where Everything Is FineAIG appears to be writing insurance policies with fantasy money.
    By Jessica Pressler
  31. aggravating insurance giants
    My Government Gave A.I.G. $180 Billion and All I Got Was This Stupid T-shirtThe ironic A.I.G. T-shirt makes it into “Thursday Styles.”
    By Jessica Pressler
  32. aggravating insurance giants
    Jury Sides With ‘Lying’ Hank Greenberg in AIG CaseA jury has rejected AIG’s claim that its former chief executive improperly seized control of millions of shares of the insurer’s stock.
    By Jessica Pressler
  33. white men with money
    Hank Greenberg Thought He Could ‘Walk Through Raindrops,’ Says LawyerHank Greenberg is a big fat liar, lawyers representing AIG in a suit against the company’s former chairman said in the last day of court.
    By Jessica Pressler
  34. AIG’s Gerry Pasciucco Had Us Until ‘Porsche Cayenne’Bloomberg magazine spent over 5,000 words getting us to like AIG’s financial-products guy, then ruined it.
    By Jessica Pressler
  35. old men with money
    Hank Greenberg Was ‘Exaggerating’ About Keeping AIG Employees’ Retirement Funds in TrustIt was just a little white lie! To make them feel better.
    By Jessica Pressler
  36. the miracle on the hudson becomes a nightmare
    AIG Now Supposedly Ruining Lives of Innocent Women and ChildrenSome of the passengers from flight 1549 are upset with the insurer.
    By Jessica Pressler
  37. aig
    AIG to Sell House Full of Bad MemoriesThe insurer hands over the keys to its New York properties.
    By Jessica Pressler
  38. heinous optics
    AIG Now Taking Money From Charities to Pay BonusesSoon they’ll be robbing blind people on the subway.
    By Jessica Pressler
  39. aig
    Departing CEO Edward Liddy Recommends AIG Hire Someone Who’s Going to Stick AroundSomeone who cares.
    By Jessica Pressler
  40. aig
    Edward Liddy To Step Down at AIGAnd we think we know why.
    By Jessica Pressler
  41. aig
    Congress, Liddy Spar Over Details of AIG Restructuring PlanCongress, for the good of the American public, wants details — but AIG, for the good of the American public, doesn’t want to give them.
    By Jessica Pressler
  42. the greatest depression
    Tomorrow, AIG Plans to Bring ItEdward Liddy and three of AIG’s trustees are due in front of Congress tomorrow, and they are pumped.
    By Jessica Pressler
  43. the greatest depression
    Edward Liddy Presents ‘Project Destiny’Edward Liddy’s new restructuring plan will melt Barney Frank’s face off.
    By Jessica Pressler
  44. aig
    Oh, Did AIG Say They Paid $120 Million in Bonuses? They Actually Meant $454 MillionTheir bad!
    By Jessica Pressler
  45. the greatest depression
    Let’s Give It Up for AIG!The insurer DOES NOT need any more bailout money. Hooray!
    By Jessica Pressler
  46. those were the 100 days
    Bailouts, Bankers, Brackets, and Bo: Obama’s First 100 DaysLet’s relive all of the memorable moments we’ve already forgotten.
    By Dan Amira
  47. white men with money
    Unmasking Portfolio’s Anonymous TARP WifeWe used the process of elimination, but actually, it was super-obvious.
    By Jessica Pressler
  48. it’s official we have the brain of a fourth grader
    ‘Hi, AIG. Not All of USA Hates You.’Kids empathize with harassed-feeling AIG executives.
    By Jessica Pressler
  49. awkward
    AIG Executive Who Penned Dramatic Exit Letter Still Working ThereThat’s awkward.
    By Jessica Pressler
  50. aggravated internet geeks
    AIG Exec Responds to Critics: ‘About My Balls…’The husband of last week’s raging AIG wife fights back.
    By Jessica Pressler
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