I visited to check the story in Opensecrets.org, but found the side not responding.

While The Examiner writes that this was a big bonus, one of the commentators there says that this was a political campaign contribution. During the elections many companies contributed to this or that candidate.

Examiner Writes:

"Senator Barack Obama received a $101,332 bonus from American International Group in the form of political contributions according to Opensecrets.org. The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are - Senators Chris Dodd and Senator Barack Obama.

"The A.I.G. Financial Products affiliate of A.I.G. gave out $136,928, the most of any AIG affiliate, in the 2008 cycle. I would note that A.I.G.’s financial products division is the unit that wrote trillions of dollars’ worth of credit-default swaps and "misjudged" the risk."

Rick commented on the same places writing "This wasn't a "bonus", it was a political contribution. Also, the contribution likely came earlier in the election cycle, before the bailout. Republicans take contributions from corporations too, at least they did when they were in power, now they can't really help anyone."

Sincere the Examiner already reports this news, it would be very good if someone from the Obama administration responded to that and explained what was the payment that his campaign allegedly received from AIG.

We emailed Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe asking for a clarification on Examiner's report, but have not heard from him yet.