why did T sec paulsons' people in sept 08 not know about the april 08 contracts "requiring" these "bonus" to be paid ? why did the former Treasury sec people fail to do due diligence in learning about ALL of the obligations that the US taxpayers were about to buy, were those members of sec paulsons staff incompetent to do their job ? seems that AIG did commit fraud in failing to reveal ALL of their contracts, and fraud is a reason to not pay those bonuses. if AIG is "too big to fail", when will the dept of justice break up this criminal monopoly? the arrogance of the AIG execs is beyond simple corporatism, they are delusional that there will be no repercussions.