Re-insurance and AIG

http://www.businessinsurance.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=9999100024135
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Ghost of Coral Re returns in Gen Re fraud trial

February 17, 2008 - 6:00am

HARTFORD, Conn.—The fraud trial of five former General Re Corp. and American International Group Inc. executives has resurrected a controversial 20-year-old AIG reinsurance venture: Coral Reinsurance Co. Ltd.

Barbados-based Coral Re was organized by AIG in the 1980s to assume uncollectible reinsurance balances of AIG's U.S. subsidiaries, helping those units avoid charges to their statutory surplus for overdue reinsurance.
At the time, AIG claimed Coral Re was not an affiliate, even though AIG managed the reinsurer and organized the sale of its stock to investors that included several prominent U.S. businessmen. In the 1990s, regulators challenged the notion that Coral Re was an unaffiliated reinsurer, and AIG agreed to stop ceding it business.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/about_hal/chronology.html
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1995

Without any previous business experience, Cheney leaves the Department of Defense to become the CEO of Halliburton Co., one of the biggest oil-services companies in the world. He will be chairman of the company from 1996 to October 1998 and from February to August 2000. Under Cheney's leadership, Halliburton moves up from 73rd to 18th on the Pentagon's list of top contractors. The company garners $2.3 billion in U.S. government contracts, which almost doubles the $1.2 billion it earned from the government previously. Most of the contracts are granted by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.³ Halliburton's overseas operations go from 51% to 68% of its revenue. According to the Center for Public Integrity,⁴ under Cheney's leadership the company also receives $1.5 billion worth of assistance from government-sponsored agencies such as OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation) and the Export-Import Bank, a huge increase compared to the $100 million that the company had received in federal loans and guarantees in the five years prior to Cheney's arrival. Years later, during the 2000 campaign in a broadcasted vice presidential candidates' debate with Joe Lieberman, Cheney asserts that "the government has absolutely nothing to do" with his financial success as chairman of Halliburton Co.⁵ Halliburton pleads guilty to criminal charges of violating a U.S. ban on exports to Libya by selling Col. Qaddafi six pulse neutron generators, devices that can be used to detonate nuclear weapons.⁶ Halliburton pays a $3.8 million penalty to settle alleged violations of the U.S. trade ban.⁷

http://talking_points.tripod.com/enron/id9.html
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-1994/1995 Clinton Administration "makes a sale" for Enron. Enron and the administration work together to win Enron the contract for a power plant in India. Clinton uses resources from the CIA to assess risk and analyze the strategy of Enron's British competitor. The administration is instrumental in procuring $400 million in financing from the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

http://www.carlyle.com/team/item5550.html
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Christopher Finn

Managing Director

Luxembourg

Segment :  Corporate Private Equity , Real Assets

Fund :  Europe Buyout ,  Europe Real Estate ,  Europe Technology

Industry  :  Generalist
 

Christopher Finn is a Managing Director and board member of the companies owning and managing the European assets for buyout, technology and real estate, and is based in Luxembourg.
Prior to joining Carlyle in 1996, Mr. Finn served as Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government agency that provides financing to U.S. investors in the developing world. It is also the largest political risk underwriter in the world. Prior to OPIC, Mr. Finn served as Executive Vice President for Equities at the American Stock Exchange. In addition, he was Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning and Acquisitions for Air and Water Technologies Capital Corporation, an international environmental services company.
Mr. Finn is an honors graduate of Harvard College.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/09/style/christopher-finn-wed-to-margaret-chisholm.html
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CHRISTOPHER FINN WED TO MARGARET CHISHOLM

Published: November 09, 1987

Margaret Mary Chisholm, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Chisholm of Westfield, N.J., was married there yesterday to Christopher Charles Finn, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Michael Finn of Bronxville, N.Y., and Flagstaff, Ariz. The Rev. William Morris performed the ceremony at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Helen.
Mrs. Finn, a financial recruiter at the American International Group in New York, graduated from Gettysburg College in 1984. Her father is the vice president of the American International Group Data Center in East Orange, N.J. Her mother, Margaret M. Chisholm, is a nursing administrator at the Rahway (N.J.) Hospital.
Mr. Finn, the special events administrator for the Metro-North Commuter Railroad in New York, attended St. Andrew's School and graduated from Gettysburg College, also in 1984. His father is the chairman and chief executive officer of the E. B. Wilson public-relations company in New York. His mother, Antoinette D. Finn, is a registered nurse with the Yorktown Heights, N.Y., school system.

http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Endowment_for_Democracy
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Involvement in Foreign Political Processes

NED regularly provides funding to opposition candidates in elections in countries other than the USA. According to Allen Weinstein, one of the founders of NED, "A lot of what we [NED] do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA" (Blum, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, 2000, p. 180).
NED has principally supported candidates with strong ties to the military and who support the rights of U.S. corporations to invest in those countries with minimal restriction. The NED has not supported candidates who oppose investments by U.S. corporations or who promise restrictions on investment rights of U.S. corporations.
Tom Engelhardt notes that "we've seen "the Rose Revolution" in Georgia, "the Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, and now "the Tulip Revolution" in Kyrgyzstan, all heavily financed and backed by groups funded by or connected to the U.S. government and/or the Bush administration." He then quotes Pepe Escobar of the Asia Times, who writes:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marguerite_H._Sullivan
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Marguerite Hoxie Sullivan "is Director of the Center on International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/05/8401296/index.htm
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BOLDFACE ADVISORS: Former Treasury Secretary John Snow is a chairman, and former Vice President Dan Quayle is the global chairman. Quayle's seat on the board of directors of Nippon Credit Bank (since renamed Aozora Bank) smoothed the way for Cerberus to take control of the Japanese bank.