制度腐败的令人发指：AIG又发奖金上亿

AIG给公司高管发1.65亿美元奖金

　　新浪财经讯 北京时间3月15日中午，据国外媒体报道，美国国际集团(AIG)正给公司高管发1.65亿美元奖金，而刚在不久前，AIG刚收到政府1700亿美元紧急救助。这家陷入困境的保险业巨头，一度保证在未来削减开支。

　　美国财政部称，当前政府并没有合法的权利去阻止这家公司，为高管支付高额奖金。AIG在月初时宣布，去年四季度亏损617亿美元，创公司创立以来最大亏损。


WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama\'s top economic adviser Sunday blasted outrageous conduct at AIG as the bailed-out insurance giant readied to hand out millions in bonuses to top executives.

Lawrence Summers, director of the White House\'s National Economic Council, said the Obama administration had scaled back the bonuses but said its hands were tied by contract law in how far it can go.

There are a lot of terrible things that have happened in the last 18 months, but what\'s happened at AIG is the most outrageous, what that company did, he said on ABC program This Week.

But Summers added: We are a country of law. There are contracts. The government cannot just abrogate contracts.

Every legal step possible to limit those bonuses is being taken by (Treasury) Secretary (Timothy) Geithner and by the Federal Reserve system. And they have, as a result of Secretary Geithner\'s efforts, been scaled back.

The Wall Street Journal said Sunday that AIG boss Edward Liddy was planning to shell out 450 million dollars to executives at a London-based financial products division blamed for the company\'s fall from grace.

Liddy has reportedly told Geithner that the bonuses cannot be cancelled due to a risk of lawsuits for breach of employment contracts, and that AIG risks an exodus of senior employees if it does not pay out bonuses.

Summers appeared to lend some credence to that argument.

He said there is one other reality we have to recognize, which is that these companies have to be enabled to function, if the government is going to maximize the prospect of getting its money back.

Massive losses at the division in London have forced the US government to pump some 150 billion dollars into crippled AIG, and it is planning another emergency injection of 30 billion dollars.

Condemnation of the planned bonuses came from both sides of the political aisle.

It is an outrageous situation, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on the ABC show, while accusing the Obama administration of dodging its own culpability.

And for them to simply sit there and blame it on the previous administration or claim contract -- we all know that contracts are valid in this country. But they need to be looked at, he said.