NU Online News Service, March 26, 12:26 p.m. EDT

There was no discrepancy between American International Group's chief executive approving an expedited payment of bonuses and his remarks that he was unhappy with them, a company spokesperson said yesterday.

AIG CEO Edward Liddy wrote Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on March 12, stating that he found the necessity to pay retention bonuses to executives at the troubled AIG Financial Products unit "distasteful and difficult." He used the same terms in an appearance before a congressional committee.

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