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Chris Dodd: “We wrote a check for $180 billion to AIG. If we had not done that, they would have been in trouble.”

On the recordDecember 2, 2009
We wrote a check for $180 billion to AIG. If we had not done that, they would have been in trouble.
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Chris Dodd
Democratic · Connecticut

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Dodd highlights the significant financial support provided to AIG.

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