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During the week of September 15, 2008, the week the federal government decided to bail out insurance giant AIG, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson spoke to the CEO of his former firm Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, more than 24 times, the Times has found. This gives Goldman Sachs conspiracy theorists, as well as those who posit AIG was rescued in order to prop up Goldman, something to chew on — and raises ethical questions about Paulson's involvement with the firm he worked at for 32 years.