You mean we had to bail out AIG because Hank Greenberg was making misrepresentations about the company’s profits that enabled it to keep blowing up the bubble?

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged former American International Group Chairman and CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and former Vice Chairman and CFO Howard Smith for their involvement in numerous improper accounting transactions that inflated AIG’s reported financial results between 2000 and 2005. The SEC alleges that Greenberg and Smith are liable as control persons for AIG’s violations of the antifraud and other provisions of the securities laws. Smith also is charged with direct violations of the antifraud and other provisions of the securities laws.

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