'to repay bonuses' for Top AIG bosses

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The announcement that much of that
laptop ac adapter money is now being returned seems likely to ensure that the bill never reaches his desk, says the BBC's Richard Lister in Washington.

The troubled insurer reported a laptop keyboard loss of $61.7bn for the last three months of 2008, the biggest quarterly loss in corporate laptop battery history.

The bonus debacle had prompted the approval of a bill by the US House of Representatives to impose a 90% laptop accessories tax on bonuses awarded by companies bailed out by the US government.

Mr Cuomo said 15 of AIG's top 20 bonus recipients had agreed to return their payments, which he estimated to total around $30m.

"A number of them have risen to the occasion and I laptop ac adapter applaud them," Mr Cuomo - who is investigating AIG as well as several other financial institutions - said of the executives who had offered to give up their bonuses.

He added that he expected to recoup all of the bonuses paid to American citizens working for AIG, which accounts for around half the $165m the company paid out.

Bonuses ranging from $1,000 to more than $6m were paid to some 400 staff in the division handling the mortgage-backed assets at the heart
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Seven senior employees were paid more than $3 million, while 73 members of staff received bonuses of more than $1m.

Mr Cuomo said he did not plan to release the names of the employees who have agreed to return the bonuses, suggesting there was no laptop battery implied threat that if an employee refused to return their bonus, their name would be disclosed.