Beating a Retreat on a Lavish Retreat.

The article reports on the address of Senator Barack Obama to the American International Group Inc. for a taxpayer-funded bailout worth $85 billion in the U.S. It notes that Senator Obama related the corporate oversight to the unethical behaviors of the firm's executives that contributes to the financial crisis in the mortgage industry. Moreover, it states that a retreat at the St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, California was instituted to settle the issue, but no higher officials attended.