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AIG wants to steal charity money to pay employee bonuses
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From Dealbreaker:

AIG, which apparently no longer has a PR division on payroll, or even an enterprising young intern to say, "This will not look good," is seeking to gain control of a $490 million charitable endowment in order to pay out bonuses, as well as a clawback of $27 million already donated to the elderly and other people in need.

The endowment--Starr International Foundation-- is a subsidiary of Starr International Co, which was started by Hank Greenberg in the 1970s. Starr is technically unaffiliated with AIG though it was set up "to reward AIG executives off the books," and seeded with Greenberg and other co-founders' shares to "pay dividends and build up nest eggs and bonuses for retiring executives."

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