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Meet The Players in Today’s AIG Hearings

Posted By Barry Ritholtz On January 27, 2010 @ 8:00 am In Bailouts,Politics | Comments Disabled

There is quite a bit of reading on this today:

• ‘It All Came Together’: Emails Reveal Fed Staffers During AIG Crisis [1] (WSJ)

• Two at Fed Had Doubts Over Payout by A.I.G. [2] (NYT)

• Geithner Defends AIG Rescue as TARP Watchdog Probes [3] (Bloomberg)

• November 2008 BlackRock Paper for Accepting Much Less than Par for AIG Paper [4] (BlackRock)

Via the WSJ’s Dealbook [5], here are the players who will be testifying at the congressional hearings on AIG today.

Timothy Geithner, Treasury secretary; former Fed Bank of New York president

Thomas Baxter, Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program

Elias Habayeb, the former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the AIG Financial Services Division

Henry Paulson, former Treasury Secretary

Stephen Friedman, a Goldman Sachs Group director and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

More on this later . . .

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Source:
 The AIG Hearings [5]
Stephen Grocer
WSJ, January 26, 2010
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/01/26/pre-gaming-the-aig-hearings-what-you-need-to-know/

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URLs in this post:

[1] ‘It All Came Together’: Emails Reveal Fed Staffers During AIG Crisis: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703906204575027222044656574.html

[2] Two at Fed Had Doubts Over Payout by A.I.G.: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/business/27aig.html

[3] Geithner Defends AIG Rescue as TARP Watchdog Probes: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXo8W3X_6kpI&

[4] November 2008 BlackRock Paper for Accepting Much Less than Par for AIG Paper: http://www.scribd.com/doc/25871158/BlackRock-Prez

[5] Dealbook: http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/01/26/pre-gaming-the-aig-hearings-what-you-need-to-know/

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