The government's profit on the deal is a turnabout from what was one of the most reviled bailouts of the financial crisis. The Government Accountability Office at one point suggested there was a real chance taxpayers would never be repaid in full.
Yet they were, with $22.7 billion in total returns, including the proceeds of the sale Treasury launched Monday night, AIG said. The government provided AIG with some $182 billion of support.
"Thank You - We Did It," AIG Chief Executive Robert Benmosche wrote in a memo to AIG staff on Tuesday. "Today warrants a celebration like no other in AIG's history and places well in the past a crisis none of us will ever forget.
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