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We Bailed You Out, And Now You Want What!?!
By Steven Pearlstein
Americans were angry when Wall Street’s greedy and risky behav- ior triggered a global financial crisis in 2008. They were angrier still when the government had to borrow and spend hundreds of billions of
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violation of the Constitution. One case was brought by Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the legendary former chief executive of AIG who built it into the world’s largest insurer. Filing the other case is a group of hedge funds that bought Fannie and Freddie
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dollars to rescue mort- gage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest banks and the insurance company AIG. They were outraged when they found out that executives at those enterprises were contin- uing to receive big salaries and bonuses.
So just imagine how it outrageous it would be if some Wall Street sharpies went to court to argue that they didn’t benefit enough from the bailouts and that taxpay- ers should pay them tens of billions of dollars more.
In fact, they did. And,
Brothers or Mel Brooks,” wrote John Cassidy, the New Yorker’s economics correspondent.
For taxpayers, it looks to be another example of the old adage that no good deed goes unpun- ished.
In two separate cases, the government now stands accused of over- stepping its authority when it took extraordi- nary measures to pre- vent a financial melt- down in the fall of 2008. The Wall Street figures who are suing say their property was seized without compensation, in
stock for pennies per share after the compa- nies were put in govern- ment conservatorship.
Federal district court judges in Washington and New York initially dismissed both chal- lenges. Their opinions noted, somewhat point- edly, that the Wall Street plaintiffs were not only unharmed but actually came out better off as a result of the government rescues. Yet both groups have now found a more sympathetic hearing a stone’s throw from the front gate of the White House, at a little-known brick courthouse called the U.S. Court of Claims.
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