Monday, March 16, 2009
$40 Billion in AIG Bailout Money Went to Foreign Banks
AIG has finally disclosed a list of the credit default swap counterparties and buyers of other risky AIG investments who got paid through the AIG bailouts.
The list reveals that foreign banks received more than $405 billion dollars courtesy of the generosity of American taxpayers.
The list includes:
- Banco Santander
- Bank of Montreal
- Barclays
- BNP Paribas
- Caylon
- Credit Suisse
- Deutsche Bank
- Dresdner Bank
- HSBC
- ING
- KFW
- Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Rabobank
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Societe Generale
- UBS
Your hard-earned money is being shipped abroad through various other programs as well.
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And now the CROOKS are paying Banks not to make loans to citizens!
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