FCIC – Interview – MP3 – Snippets

  • AIG – People – FCIC Interviews – mp3s
  • Steve Benzinger – {Negative Basis – Cassano told us, we just didn’t know what it meant}
  • Joe Cassano – {AIGFP was 40 Billion, Where did the rest go?}
  • Gary Gorton – {I wasn’t involved with Alan Frost, AIG SSCDS from 2002 on}
  • Hank Greenberg – {2005 downgrade = 1.5 billion Collateral Call for AIGFP}, 
    {AIGFP Should have stopped writing SSCDS in March 2005 when AIG was Downgraded}, {off the Record – AIG is a National Treasure}, 
  • Mark Hutchings – AIG-Securities Lendings
    • Held over a barrel, less than 102 – 73 (Barclays-?)
    • Never told to wind-down 
    • Dixie – How did you know it was going to work that way?
    • Could always lend more, Dixie- Then why didn’t you?, we did up to time of Bailout
  • Kevin McGinn – {Didn’t know about Collateral Triggers, Ratings Downgrades or Valuation}
  • Gene Parks – {Forster told me about Collateral calls because of Valuation, but I didn’t know what it meant.}
  • Richard Scott – AIG
    • never was told to wind-down Securities Lending
    • liked subprime better
    • Technically in charge of AIG-Securities Lending since 2003 / 2004, wasn’t really until 2007.
  • Lloyd Blankfein – Goldman Sachs
    • thought the problem was repos, 
    • thought AIGFP had the money, just being stubborn, at least in the fall of 2007
  • Warren Buffet
    • good ideas go bad
    • Regulatory Relief  – 2008, Depression Era
  • 2010 0614 FCIC John H. Neel Foster, FASB
    • Enron, Mark to Market, Fair Value, Goldman Sachs-Did well through 2008 Crisis
  • Arthur Levitt
    • Gullible Public – approx. 1:17:00
  • Cooper Union
    • Part 2 -Regulator Neglect
      • no red flags
      • goes off the record, something about a Bear Stearns guy
  • Harvey Miller – Weil
    • ~~ Greenspan – What would be bad about…
    • ~~ There’s no institutional knowledge
    • ~~ Ben Bernanke – I don’t know…
  • David Viniar – Goldman Sachs
    • money flowed through AIG Holding Company to Insurance Companies – Easier, cleaner