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Richard Shelby: AIG insurers got the upside. The taxpayers got the downside.

On the recordMarch 4, 2009
AIG insurers got the upside. The taxpayers got the downside.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby criticizes the imbalance of benefits and losses between AIG and taxpayers.

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