Morning Scan: AIG Bailout on Trial; Goldman's New Conflict of I...

09/29/14

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See You in Court: A lawsuit alleging that shareholders got a raw deal in the $184 billion government bailout of AIG goes to trial today, and pundits are abuzz with expectation Â-- but not because they think the central claim holds particular merit. In two separate columns in the New York Times, Gretchen Morgenson and Noam Scheiber shed no tears for AIG shareholders, including the insurer's former chief executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg....

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