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White House OKs $7 Million Salary for AIG CEO
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:54 PM
WASHINGTON -- The White House is fine with bailed-out insurer AIG's decision to pay its new CEO $7 million a year.
Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs says that's the price of competent leadership to make the company profitable again.
AIG disclosed the details of Robert Benmosche's annual compensation package in a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also could earn millions more in performance-based incentives.
Last fall, the government saved AIG from collapse with a bailout package worth up to $182.5 billion.
Gibbs says Benmosche's pay will be reviewed by Kenneth Feinberg, the government official in charge of policing compensation packages for companies that took federal bailout money.
© 2009 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:54 PM
WASHINGTON -- The White House is fine with bailed-out insurer AIG's decision to pay its new CEO $7 million a year.
Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs says that's the price of competent leadership to make the company profitable again.
AIG disclosed the details of Robert Benmosche's annual compensation package in a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also could earn millions more in performance-based incentives.
Last fall, the government saved AIG from collapse with a bailout package worth up to $182.5 billion.
Gibbs says Benmosche's pay will be reviewed by Kenneth Feinberg, the government official in charge of policing compensation packages for companies that took federal bailout money.
© 2009 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.