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Coleman still seeks FEC’s OK to pay lawsuit bills with campaign cash

By Chris Steller | 03.19.09 | 2:29 pm

AIG chief Edward Liddy mentioned, while sitting in his congressional hot seat Wednesday, that AIG insures oil rigs. If Norm Coleman was watching at home, perhaps he turned to his wife and said, “Honey, that’s what you do!” Allegations of unreported monetary gifts — cloaked as payments from a Coleman contributor’s marine-exploration firm to the insurance company where Coleman’s wife works — remain alive (if dormant) in Texas and Delaware courts. And Coleman still wants to use campaign cash to fight them, aides say.

Bachmann probes AIG’s Liddy to find who in Congress knew of bonuses

By Chris Steller | 03.18.09 | 5:42 pm

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann — famous for urging the media to expose anti-Americans in Congress – did her own probing today, pressing AIG CEO Edward Liddy for names of her colleagues who had foreknowledge of AIG’s controversial bonus payments. “Did…

AIG CEO Liddy offers halfsies-back on executive bonuses

By Chris Steller | 03.18.09 | 1:02 pm

AIG CEO Edward Liddy told the U.S. House Financial Services Committee that he has asked AIG executives who got bonuses “to return at least half of those payments.” Some want to return 100 percent, he said. C-SPAN3 is streaming the…