November 24, 2014
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s legal advisers sought to devise ways to avoid accountability to shareholders in the 2008 bailout of American International Group Inc., according to evidence introduced at the end of trial testimony over terms of …
November 14, 2014
The U.S. government has grounds to demand that American International Group Inc. pay any significant damages should Maurice “Hank” Greenberg win his $25 billion claim that federal officials shortchanged investors in the 2008 bailout of the insurer. Greenberg and other …
November 6, 2014
American International Group Inc.’s former chief executive officer said regulators didn’t tell him about a potential Chinese investment before the U.S. government’s 2008 bailout of the insurer. Robert Willumstad, testifying in Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s lawsuit challenging the terms of the …
November 3, 2014
Lawyer David Boies has a shot at an upset win in the trial of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s $25 billion bailout case against the U.S. government, a turnaround from the weak odds he was given just a month ago. Boies, representing …
October 27, 2014
David Boies spent much of the past month interrogating the architects of the 2008 Wall Street bailout, making the case that the U.S. cheated American International Group Inc. shareholders of at least $25 billion partly for the benefit of an …
October 19, 2014
Former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy defended his decision to work closely with the government at the time of the company’s 2008 bailout, saying he hoped to win concessions on the harsh terms of an $85 …
October 17, 2014
Former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy testified he chose not to buck government overseers who selected him to run the bailed- out insurer. Developing trust with regulators was for the “benefit of AIG,” he told the …
October 16, 2014
Former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy will face a key question on the witness stand in a trial over claims shareholders were cheated of at least $25 billion in the insurer’s bailout: was he or the …
October 12, 2014
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he wasn’t looking to punish American International Group Inc. for mismanagement when the board of governors authorized an emergency loan to the distressed insurer at a steep interest rate and with a demand …
October 9, 2014
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the sterner treatment of American International Group Inc. in the 2008 bailout compared with how investment banks were handled, saying the rescue of the insurer had a different purpose. Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s Starr …