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AIG CEO Robert Benmosche Gets $7 Million Salary

American International Group (AIG) will pay new CEO Robert Benmosche a salary of $7 million dollars per year. AIG received billions of dollars in bailout money from the government earlier this year. The salary has been approved in principly by Washington's new pay czar...

Government Capping Compensation?

As you shelter yourself in a cool closet from the hailstorm of healthcare promotion, Congress and the President are sliding into home plate with compensation controls in the senior offices of financial firms, … for starters. The new Corporate and Financial Institution...

Whistleblowers to get paid under New Minnesota "false claims" Law

" People with inside knowledge about fraud perpetrated against the state of Minnesota have a new incentive to speak up: cash. Under a new law establishing a "false claims" civil action, whistleblowers who help the...

Pakistan Militants receive compensation for peace deal

Even though Pakistan is heaving a sigh of relief after signing the peace deal with Taliban in Swat Valley,  new revelation have surfaced that Militants were given money for entering into Peace deal. ...

Value of Wall Street C.E.O

What's the value of a Wall Street C.E.O now in this economy crisis. Could they get away with tax payers money to compensate them to stay in their top position or would they perhaps bail out too? The pay is not...

Health care workers to be compensated for Gordon Campbell's contract-breaking...

"More than 7,000 health-care workers will receive an average $9,500 each before Christmas as compensation for being laid off after the B.C. government contracted out their jobs. The payments are part of a $75-million settlement negotiated among the government and health...

libya compensate terror victim

" Libya has paid $1.5bn into a compensation fund for US victims of terror attacks blamed on Tripoli in the 1980s, the US state department says. The fund was agreed in August by the US and Libya to settle all...

UK Government refuses to rescue councils caught in Iceland bank collapse

The UK's consumer savings protection laws will be put to the test for the first time after the colapse of Iceland's Landsbanki, which had banking outlets in the UK under the name ICEsave. However it has emerged...

Need a Job? $17,000 an Hour. No Success Required.

"By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: September 17, 2008 Are you capable of taking a perfectly good 158-year-old company and turning it into dust? If so, then you may not be earning up to your full potential.You...

"Fundamental Agreement" Reached On Bailout

" Christopher Dodd, speaking moments ago: We believe that we're prepared to act expeditiously on a package to our colleagues that will allow us to send a message to the markets that the congress heard the...

Ex-Guantanamo detainees appeal to US Supreme Court

"Ex-Guantanamo detainees appeal to US Supreme Court ...

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007, McCain voted NO!!

The "agent" of change, John McCain still thinks that women deserve to be paid less than men. He voted against equal pay for women as recently as 2007, but swears he is the change we need in 2008. He used the excuse that Lilly Ledbetter had waited too long to file. So there is...

Lawmakers vote to subpoena Palin's husband, aides

"ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) -- Alaska lawmakers voted Friday to subpoena Gov. Sarah Palin's husband, several aides and phone records in their investigation into Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner, setting up what one senator called a "branch-versus-branch...

Rice arrives in Libya amid criticism back home (updated)

" Rice, Gadhafi meet in house US bombed 22 years ago. 2008-09-05 21:54:04 -   TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround in their troubled relations with a...

Englishman wins Irish race case

Wow, this is a new one. An Englishman has been awarded 20,000 euros ($30,000) because he says he was taunted by his Irish coworkers while working as a pipe fitter in Ireland. He claims that they called him "the Brit" and would consistently recomend that he be sent in for...

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