{"id":44,"date":"2009-03-30T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2009-03-30T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T14:44:08","slug":"aig-execs-pressured-to-donate-to-democrat-senator-dodd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/aig-execs-pressured-to-donate-to-democrat-senator-dodd\/","title":{"rendered":"AIG execs pressured to donate to democrat Senator Dodd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/mar\/30\/aig-chiefs-pressed-to-donate-to-dodd\/\">The <strong>Washington Times<\/strong> has the story<\/a> on how the Senate Banking Committee Chair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/democrats.html\">democrat<\/a> Chris Dodd, collected large donations from AIG employees. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Dodd&#8217;s campaign quickly hit pay dirt, collecting more than $160,000 from employees and their spouses at the AIG Financial Products division (AIG-FP) in Wilton, Conn., in the days before he took over as the committee chairman in January 2007. Months later, the senator transferred the donations to jump-start his 2008 presidential bid, which later failed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, two years later, Mr. Dodd has emerged as a central figure in the government&#8217;s decision to let executives at the now-failing AIG collect more than $218 million in bonuses, according to the Connecticut attorney general &#8211; even as the company was receiving billions of dollars in assistance from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). He acknowledged that he slipped a provision into legislation in February that authorized the bonuses, but said the Treasury Department asked him to do it.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe employees were told, &#8220;If you agree,&#8221; to write checks for $2,100 from themselves and their spouses and to send them to Mr. Dodd&#8217;s campaign within four days. They also were to ask the senior members of their management teams to do the same and send copies of their checks to the company.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodd campaign collected $162,100 from AIG-FP employees and their spouses within six weeks of the e-mail, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics and the Federal Election Commission. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that the employees were told to send copies of their checks to the company.  That may be legal, but it clearly crosses an ethical line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times has the story on how the Senate Banking Committee Chair, democrat Chris Dodd, collected large donations from AIG employees. Mr. Dodd&#8217;s campaign quickly hit pay dirt, collecting more than $160,000 from employees and their spouses at the AIG Financial Products division (AIG-FP) in Wilton, Conn., in the days before he took over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,19],"tags":[238,262,621],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}