American International Group Inc.’s unique set of risks was seen by one of the primary orchestrators of its rescue as requiring tough conditions that included the government’s taking most of the insurer’s stock. The fight over whether those terms were …
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 …
Timothy Geithner backed away from two of his more provocative assessments of the 2008 bailout of American International Group Inc., in a day of courtroom testimony marked by careful answers and a lack of recollection about the details of the …
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. …
Federal regulators cut a “loan sharky” interest rate on an $85 billion bailout loan to American International Group Inc. because it contributed to a debt service problem that threatened the insurer’s credit rating, the top lawyer for the Federal Reserve …
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York poured billions of dollars into rescuing American International Group Inc. in September 2008 without drawing up documents that would cement the government’s control of the giant insurer, the bank’s lawyer testified. AIG’s dire …
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors set an interest rate for American International Group Inc.’s 2008 bailout loan that was meant to prevent shareholders from reaping a “windfall,” the Fed’s top lawyer testified. With bankruptcy as AIG’s only alternative, a …
The heads of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. told federal regulators days ahead of the 2008 government bailout of American International Group Inc. that they were putting together a private rescue of the insurance giant, a …
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors didn’t want to bail out American International Group Inc. with an $85 billion loan, preferring that the insurer find a savior in the private marketplace, the Fed’s top lawyer told a judge. “We were …
The U.S. extorted American International Group Inc. shareholders when it extended a $182 billion taxpayer bailout at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, a lawyer for Maurice “Hank” Greenberg said. Greenberg’s Starr International Co., AIG’s largest shareholder when the …
