AIG bailout trial News

Unfamiliar Fed Saw ‘Exceptional’ Risks in AIG Situation, Says Geithner

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 …

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 Testifies He Was Responsible for AIG Loan Rate

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 …

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. …

Geithner Expected to Testify on AIG Bailout Rate

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 …

AIG Bailout Rushed Without Complete Documentation, Fed Lawyer Testifies

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 …

Trial Over Greenberg’s Challenge to AIG Bailout to Get Underway

One of the more unusual trials to come out of the 2008 financial crisis is set to begin on Monday, when a federal judge will consider whether the U.S. government’s rescue of American International Group Inc was, in fact, legal. …