Sentences with phrase «in federal bailout money»

A case in point is the Treasury Department's press release touting its decision to permit «10 of the largest U.S. financial institutions» to begin repaying $ 68 billion in federal bailout money.

While he hasn't disclosed all his finances, Lazio confirmed that in 2008 and 2009 - a period in which the firm accepted $ 25 billion in federal bailout money - he earned a total of $ 2.1 million in salary and bonuses.

Not exact matches

«All of our plans on disaster recovery are premised with the federal government coming in with a big chunk of short - term FEMA money and then a big chunk of long - term bailout money,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.

During that time, Paine and his crew captured the ups and downs of electric vehicles» development amid the Great Recession — when GM went bankrupt and its executives made the blunder of flying to Washington, D.C., in private jets to seek federal bailout money; when Tesla Motors almost missed payroll, having built only 100 cars and spent $ 100 million; and when Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn was grilled by the press about the $ 6 billion gamble he was taking on the Leaf.

In a letter to Congress on Tuesday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo confirmed that AIG paid 73 employees bonuses of more than $ 1 million each this year after it received federal bailout money.

«The last bailout of N8.8 bn he collected, Fayose fixed N5.3 bn of this money in Skye Bank so that he can benefit from the interest that will accrue on the deposit while the remaining N3.2 bn is in the JAC Account, even as he has refused to pay the beneficiaries of the bailout as approved by the Federal Government.»

«As the 2nd most conservative member of the New York State Assembly in rankings by the New York State Conservative Party and the # 1 Legislator in scoring by Unshackle Upstate, a New York reform organization, I know we need to slash federal spending, balance the budget, end the bailouts, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit and support repealing Obamacare.

Even if they never sell enough cars to make an honest profit, there's already been a huge profit to GM in the form of massive federal subsidies and of course, the massive bailout of GM itself back in 2008... Why not throw money at the electric car boondoggle?

Federal regulators took over the two companies during the 2008 financial crisis, eventually injecting them with $ 187.5 billion in bailout money.