Nicholas Ashooh, who left AIG for Alcoa, said at a forum at his alma mater, Marquette University in Milwaukee, that "the scale and the level of anger was something no one expected."
He later said in an interview, according to Bloomberg: “The story people missed was that $7 billion went to U.S. municipalities. Once you are in the spotlight of the media, the government regulatory agencies and the politicians, it became more difficult.”