AIG gets some tough love from Michael Moore

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via MichaelMoore.com:



September 5th, 2009 1:37 pm
AIG gets some tough love from Michael Moore


Ouch! – this could be painful. Beleaguered bosses at American insurer AIG (or Chartis as it now wants to be known) are bracing themselves for an uncomfortable few days.


Dashwood, edited by Jonathan Russell / Telegraph


Michael Moore's latest film Capitalism: A Love Story will have its first screening at the Venice Film Festival this week before opening early next month.

Although Moore is looking wider than just AIG's part in the global economic meltdown he saves some special treatment for the insurer.

"This is Michael Moore, I have come to make a citizen's arrest of the board of directors of AIG," he says as he turns up outside the US insurer's headquarters with the requisite loudhailer.

He even manages to get in, before being thrown out again – all part of his mission to find out what happened to the US taxpayers' billions that went into bailing out the banks and insurers.

I understand this hasn't gone down too well at AIG, although when I call them up they claim ignorance. ........(more)

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