Greenberg bailout lawsuit News

AIG, Not Taxpayers, Could Pay If Greenberg Wins $25 Billion Bailout Suit

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 …

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 …

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 …

Fed Counsel Grilled on AIG’s Bailout Terms vs. Banks’

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 …

Goldman, JPMorgan CEOs Pursued Private Rescue for AIG

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 …

Federal Reserve Was Reluctant to Rescue AIG, Urged Private Sector Loan: Trial

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 …

Greenberg’s Lawyer Says U.S. Demonized, Extorted AIG Shareholders in Bailout

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 …

AIG Ex-CEO Greenberg Loses Supreme Court Appeal in Suit Against Bailout

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, who accused the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of unlawfully bailing out the insurer at the height of the …

Greenberg Doubles Claims in AIG Bailout Suit vs. U.S. to $55 Billion

Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the former American International Group Inc. chief executive, has more than doubled the size of his class action lawsuit against the United States over the insurer’s bailout to roughly $55.5 billion from $25 billion. In an amended …