AIG loan terms News

AIG Bailout Trial Probes Role of Ex-CEO Liddy

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 …

Was AIG’s High Bailout Loan Rate Forced by Regulators?

A “crazily high” interest rate levied on American International Group Inc.’s $85 billion bailout loan may have been forced on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by other regulators, according to evidence presented at a trial over the government’s …

Geithner Asked Buffett for Opinion on AIG Before 2008 Bailout

Billionaire Warren Buffett said he gave an appraisal of American International Group Inc. to Timothy Geithner, then the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, just before it rescued AIG in 2008. Geithner asked “was there enough in …

Ex-Treasurer Paulson Defends AIG’s Harsh Loan Terms

American International Group Inc. received harsher terms than other financial institutions in the 2008 financial crisis because regulators needed to send a message to markets that government help would cost them, Henry Paulson, the former treasury secretary, said in court. …