Former American International Group Inc. (AIG) 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 government running the show?
The U.S. had a hand in everything from press releases to selection of board members after theFederal Reserve Bank of New York loaned the company $85 billion and took most of its stock, according to testimony and documents in the case brought by Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s Starr International Co.