(The affiliation with Citigroup, which is paying the Mets $400 million over 20 years for naming rights, was also tinged with bad news. Critics argued in 2009 that Citigroup had no business making such a deal because the company was a recipient of billions of dollars in federal bailout money. In 2011, the company agreed to pay $285 million to settle a civil complaint by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had defrauded investors.)