The White House said in a blog post Wednesday the recent report from the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program was wrong in its assessment of the Treasury's handling of its investments in American International Group (AIG). On Nov. 25, 2008, the Treasury Department bought $40 billion of AIG's preferred stock, and in the following April set aside $29.8 billion to an equity capital facility, from which AIG drew $7.5 billion, leaving AIG's debt to the Treasury at $47.5 billion, according to SIGTARP. On Sept. 30, 2010, AIG announced it entered into a restructuring plan with the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to begin the government's exit from the company. SIGTARP called out the Treasury's methodology in reporting losses on those AIG investments. According to the report, the Treasury estimates a $5 billion loss, down from $45 billion six months earlier without citing a change to its methodology. According to SIGTARP: