AIG CEO Robert Benmosche says opposition to the insurer’s bonuses in the wake of the financial crisis five years ago was like lynchings during the battle over civil rights.In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Tuesday, Benmosche dismissed the criticism of bonuses saying the uproar “was intended to stir public anger, to get everybody out there with their pitch forks and their hangman nooses, and all that – sort of like what we did in the Deep South [decades ago]. And I think it was just as bad and just as wrong.”
via AIG CEO: Anger Over Bonuses ‘Just As Bad’ As Lynchings In Deep South | FDL News Desk.
‘Cause, you see, a little known fact about those ‘deep south lynchings’ was the lynchees were living large on taxpayer money and the lynchers resented it.
I bet Wall Street has more sociopaths than any other thoroughfare in New York.