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| July 26, 2010: Goldman Sachs officdials have told federal investigators which counterparties it used to hedge the risk that American International Group (AIG) would fail, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, reported Bloomberg. The list was sought by panels reviewing the beneficiaries of New York-based AIG’s $182.3 billion government bailout, said the people, who declined to be identified because the information is private. Goldman Sachs, which received $12.9 billion after the 2008 rescue tied to contracts with the insurer, has said it didn’t need AIG to be rescued because it was hedged against the firm’s failure. “We want to know the identity of those parties, partly just to know where American taxpayer dollars went, but partly to assess Goldman’s claim,” said Elizabeth Warren, the Chairman of the Congressional Oversight Panel, at a U.S. Senate hearing last week. “We cannot evaluate the credibility of their claim that they had nothing at stake one way or the other in the AIG bailout.” Warren’s panel and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, both of which are reviewing the use of taxpayer funds in financial bailouts, received the data from New York-based Goldman Sachs, the people said. Goldman Sachs had rebuffed a May, 2010, request from the Congressional Oversight Panel for the names of counterparties, according to a document provided to lawmakers. Goldman Sachs has provided data to Warren’s panel and “to the extent that they have other questions, we are more than happy to provide them with the information,” Lucas van Praag, a Goldman Sachs Spokesman, said on Thursday, July 22, 2010, in a statement. “We reached out to them” earlier last week, he said. |
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