"US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner who, as his payment of $13 billion from government-owned AIG to Goldman Sachs showed, believes that bankers take priority over taxpayers. "

It's also interesting to note that the numbers are wrong (most of that 13B was previously posted collateral from AIG, Maiden Lane payments were $5.6B), oddly chosen since SG got significantly more and it's funny to have GS picked out in the context of another bailout of European/UK banks, and, of course, the uncomfortable fact that Maiden Lane III net balance is going to cover outstanding balance, validating the widely sneered at claim that FRB was responding to a liquidity crisis not an insolvency crisis.

http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/maidenlane.html

How could anyone give any of that article any credence at all?