Cuomo became a leading figure in the outrage over executive "retention bonuses" distributed by insurance firm AIG after the company had received $170 billion in bailout funds from the U.S. Government.Washington Post: Cuomo Emerges Amid AIG Disaster (March 19, 2009) Cuomo was among the first to provide the public with details about the bonus program (which included bonuses of $1 million distributed to at least 73 executives) and forced AIG CEO Edward Liddy to release to him the names of executives who received bonuses. Cuomo intends to release the names to the public after running a "risk assessment" to ensure the executive's personal safety.Washington Post: Cuomo Emerges Amid AIG Disaster (March 19, 2009)

1. Full name: Andrew Mark Cuomo
2. Born: December 6, 1957Official Site: About the Attorney General
3. Birth place: Queens, New YorkOfficial Site: About the Attorney General
4. Alma mater: Fordham University, 1979Official Site: About the Attorney General
5. Law degree: Albany Law School, 1982Official Site: About the Attorney General
6. Three daughters: Mariah, Cara, and MichaelaOfficial Site: About the Attorney General
7. Elected attorney general: 2006Official Site: About the Attorney General
8. Had been considered for Senate seat left vacant by Hillary Rodham Clinton
9. Criticized by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer for focusing too closely on bonuses and missing the big pictureNew York Daily News: Spitzer takes shots at Cuomo over handling of AIG mess (March 18, 2009)

""You know I’ve spent a lot of time in other races, especially in Iowa and in New Hampshire, back with Gore and back with Clinton. Those races require you to do something no other race does, you know, and I like it, and I agree with you, it’s a good thing...It’s not a TV-crazed race, you know, you can’t just buy your way through that race ...It doesn’t work that way, it’s frankly a more demanding process. You have to get on a bus, you have to go into a diner, you have to shake hands, you have to sit down with ten people in a living room...You can’t shuck and jive at a press conference, you can’t just put off reporters, because you have real people looking at you saying answer the question, you know, and all those moves you can make with the press don’t work when you’re in someone’s living room."SpinCycle(Newsday):AG Cuomo on NH: No "Shuck and jive"????(January 10, 2008)