Like the article, I am not a fan of conspiracy theories, but something is not right about this behind-the-scenes bailout of AIG.
The New York Fed is in the hot seat for its decision in November 2008 to buy out, for about $30 billion, insurance contracts AIG sold on toxic debt securities to banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co., Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank AG, among others. That decision, critics say, amounted to a back-door bailout for the banks, which received 100 cents on the dollar for contracts that would have been worth far less had AIG been allowed to fail.
It goes on to describe how Geithner and the New York Fed basically operated outside of any oversight or controls in its efforts to help AIG.
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