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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (76441)	1/9/2010 3:25:05 AM
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Heck of a Job, Timmy! By: Jim Geraghty The Campaign Spot In a sane world, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner would be cleaning out his desk right now, right? Bloomberg: <<< The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by Timothy Geithner, told American International Group Inc. to withhold details from the public about the bailed-out insurer’s payments to banks during the depths of the financial crisis, e-mails between the company and its regulator show. AIG said in a draft of a regulatory filing that the insurer paid banks, which included Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Societe Generale SA, 100 cents on the dollar for credit-default swaps they bought from the firm. The New York Fed crossed out the reference, according to the e-mails, and AIG excluded the language when the filing was made public on Dec. 24, 2008. The e-mails were obtained by Representative Darrell Issa, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. >>> AIG's liquidity crisis hits in September 2008. The Federal Reserve comes in to rescue them with a credit line of $85 billion, and the big, powerful banks received full cash for their credit-default swaps. But because that aspect of the rescue would be a giant p.r. headache, suggesting that the taxpayer was stepping in to make sure Goldman Sachs and the others didn't lose anything in their deal, Geithner and his team chose to simply not disclose it to the public. campaignspot.nationalreview.com