AIG副总裁的辞职信（中英文版）(5)

　　这大概也是你决定让这些年终奖提早3个月发放的原因。这个决定让我们感受到你对我们的支持，这一点都不像一个真心认为这些合约“难以接受”的人会做的事情。(译按：AIG CEO 在被炮轰的时候，曾经这样形容这些年终奖合约。)

　　That may also be why you authorized the balance of the payments on March 13.

　　最后，这大概也是你在3月13日最终授权支付这些年终奖的原因。

　　At no time during the past six months that you have been leading A.I.G. did you ask us to revise, renegotiate or break these contracts — until several hours before your appearance last week before Congress.

　　在过去6个月你领导AIG的期间，你从没有要求我们修改、重谈、或是放弃这笔年终奖，直到你出席国会听证会的数小时前。

　　I think your initial decision to honor the contracts was both ethical and financially astute, but it seems to have been politically unwise. It’s now apparent that you either misunderstood the agreements that you had made — tacit or otherwise — with the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, various members of Congress and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of New York, or were not strong enough to withstand the shifting political winds.

　　我想你刚开始的想法是，既然这些年终奖原则上没错、在财务上也说得过去，那么应该给予尊重。但是这个做法现在看来在政治上不讨好。那么显然，你要么是误解了同联储、纽约州检察官、国会议员、财政部之间的成文或不成文的协议，要么就是不够坚定，无法抵挡这些政治压力。

　　You’ve now asked the current employees of A.I.G.-F.P. to repay these earnings. As you can imagine, there has been a tremendous amount of serious thought and heated discussion about how we should respond to this breach of trust.

　　现在，你要求 AIG-FP 部门的同仁缴回这些他们应得的年终奖。你可以想像，我们对你破坏了大家对公司的信任是多么怒火中烧，怨声载道。