2008 Financial Crisis – Documents 2009 0402 – Letter – NCOIL to Senators Dodd, Frank, Shelby, Bachus – 2p State insurance regulation was not a factor in the economic downturn and should not be swept into any proposed financial services overhaul. 2008 1006 – Letter – NAIC to GOV – Praeger to Waxman, Davis -…

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2008 Financial Crisis – Media AIG – Media AIG – Securities Lending – Media 2009 1204 – Bloomberg – Geithner Slams Bonuses, Says Banks Would Have Failed (Update2), (Goldman Sachs), by Robert Schmidt – 2p

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AIG – Coverup It seems to me that you’re covering for something. (p43) —  Damon SILVERS, COP Member / Policy Director for the AFL-CIO 2010 1216 – COP – Hearing – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Congressional Oversight Panel – [PDF-88p, VIDEO-CSPAN] What could the New York Fed be hiding? For one thing, a clear explanation of why it…

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AIG – Insurance Regulators 2009 0303 – Missouri Insurance Commission – AIG Frequently Asked Questions – [link] (a) On September 16, 2008, Dinallo reiterated Governor Paterson’s offer to allow AIG to upstream $20 billion from its insurance subsidiaries (Dinallo Dep. 214:13- 21). Geithner responded, “No, we’re good” (id. at 215:16-18). As a result, Dinallo was “led…

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Barclays AIG Securities Lending AIGFP Legal Case – re Barclays Bank PLC Securities Litigation Lehman Brothers MBIA barclaysbankplcsecuritieslitigation.com/ barclaysbankplcsecuritieslitigation.com/case-documents/summary-judgment-briefing.aspx monolines 503p – barclaysbankplcsecuritieslitigation.com/media/934718/sharan_nirmul_exhibits_61-80.pdf barclaysbankplcsecuritieslitigation.com/media/934797/sharan_nirmul_exhibits_211-234.pdf 2013 – LC – In re BARCLAYS BANK PLC SECURITIES LITIGATION, Document 66, Case 1:09-cv-01989-PAC – 101p Summary Judgment Briefing – AUDIO – [link] – LC – Plaintiff’s Response To The…

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Financial Guarantors The greatest losses would be experienced by big CDO arrangers such as Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and UBS, and by financial guarantors such as AIG, Ambac, and MBIA. 2011 01 – FCIC – Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States – 663p http://fgic.com/policyholderinfocenter/rehabdocs/docs/7_Assured.pdf 2021…

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Joe Cassano AIGFP SEC DOJ New York Attorney General’s office 2010 0722 – WSJ – A Set of Scribbled Notes Helped Scuttle AIG Probe, By Thomas Catan And Amir Efrati – [link] AIG – People – FCIC Interviews – mp3s Steve Benzinger – {Negative Basis – Cassano told us, we just didn’t know what it meant}…

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2008 – Financial Crisis – International 2008 – OECD – Impact of the Financial Turmoil – 25p Company Investments, Increased Surrenders 2009 – OECD – Insurance Companies and the Financial Crisis, Sebastian Schich – 31p 2009 0623 – UK House of Commons – US Congressional debates on the financial crisis: key players, policy and future regulation, Research Paper 09/58 – 57p

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