{"id":10575,"date":"2009-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"aig-trustee-aids-offshore-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/aig-trustee-aids-offshore-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"AIG trustee aids offshore hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battered insurance giant AIG returns to Capitol Hill Wednesday facing another frosty reception in Congress &ndash; where three AIG trustees appointed by the U.S. government will make their public debut amid growing skepticism over their role at the company. <\/p>\n<p> House Oversight Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) is questioning whether the Federal Reserve Bank of New York &ndash; which installed the handpicked trustees in January &ndash; is doing enough to protect taxpayers footing the bill for the $182.5 billion bailout. <\/p>\n<p> And POLITICO has learned that one of those trustees has another role &ndash; as chairwoman of a Bermuda-based firm that administers hedge funds based in the Cayman Islands and other global tax havens.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0509\/22456.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battered insurance giant AIG returns to Capitol Hill Wednesday facing another frosty reception in Congress &ndash; where three AIG trustees appointed by the U.S. government will make their public debut amid growing skepticism over their role at the company. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8495,3847,5146,6857,7330,6773,11582,11580,5125,509,378,11579,11581,11577,9173,11578,6466,7969,5793],"class_list":["post-10575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-aig","tag-bailout","tag-bank-of-new-york","tag-capitol-hill","tag-cayman-islands","tag-chairwoman","tag-committee-chairman","tag-edolphus-towns","tag-federal-reserve-bank","tag-federal-reserve","tag-federal-reserve-bank-of-new-york","tag-frosty-reception","tag-global-tax","tag-house-oversight-committee","tag-insurance-giant","tag-public-debut","tag-skepticism","tag-tax-havens","tag-taxpayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}