http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/21/us-aig-greenberg-lawsuit-idUSTRE7A... Greenberg's company, Starr International Co, also filed a *lawsuit against the Federal Reserve Bank* of New York, *whose president at the time of the takeover was* *Timothy Geithner*, *now U.S. Treasury Secretary.* Once AIG's largest shareholder, Starr said the government took a roughly 80 percent stake in AIG and charged an "punitive" 14.5 percent on federal loans without seeking a shareholder vote, hoping to provide a *"backdoor bailout"* for AIG trading partners such as *Goldman Sachs Group* Inc. It *said the bailouts that began on September 16, 2008, violated shareholders' rights to due process and equal protection, and a Fifth Amendment ban against taking private property for public use without just compensation, known as the "takings clause."* *///* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbKQ-h3J4Ks *AIG paid out 13 billion dollars to Goldman Sachs after receiving bailout... * *///* *also see :* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner current United States Secretary of the Treasury<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury> . He was previously the president of theFederal Reserve Bank of New York<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_New_York> . he played a supporting role to Henry Paulson<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson>, former CEO of Goldman Sachs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs>, in the decision to bail out AIG <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIG> just two days after deciding not to rescue Lehman Brothers<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers> from bankruptcy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy>. In 2006, he also became a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Thirty>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson is an American banker who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury>. He previously served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Executive_Officer> of Goldman Sachs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs>. // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Thirty The Group of Thirty was founded in 1978 by Geoffrey Bell<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Bell> at the initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation> ,[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Thirty#cite_note-1> which also provided initial funding for the body. Its first chairman wasJohannes Witteveen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Witteveen>, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund>. Its current chairman of trustees is Paul Volcker<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Volcker> . The current members of the Group of Thirty are: - Paul Volcker <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Volcker> - Chairman of the Board of Trustees; former Chairman of the Federal Reserve<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Federal_Reserve> - Jacob A. Frenkel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_A._Frenkel> - Chairman, JPMorgan Chase International<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JPMorgan_Chase_International&action=edit&redlink=1> - Geoffrey L. Bell <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Bell> - Executive Secretary; President Geoffrey Bell and Company<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geoffrey_Bell_and_Company&action=edit&redlink=1> - Leszek Balcerowicz <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_Balcerowicz> - Former President, National Bank of Poland<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bank_of_Poland> - Jaime Caruana <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Caruana> - General Manager, Bank for International Settlements<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlements> - E. Gerald Corrigan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Gerald_Corrigan> - Managing Director, Goldman Sachs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs>, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_New_York> - Guillermo de la Dehesa<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guillermo_de_la_Dehesa&action=edit&redlink=1> - Director and Member of the Executive Committee, Grupo Santander<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Santander> - Mario Draghi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Draghi> - President, European Central Bank <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank> - William Dudley <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dudley> - President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_New_York> - Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_W._Ferguson,_Jr.> - President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIAA-CREF> - Stanley Fischer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Fischer> - Governor, Bank of Israel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Israel> - Arminio Fraga Neto <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminio_Fraga> - Partner, Gávea Investimentos<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1vea_Investimentos>; former President of the Central Bank of Brazil<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Brazil> - Mark J. Carney <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney> - Governor, Bank of Canada <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Canada> - Domingo Cavallo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo_Cavallo> - Chairman and CEO, DFC Associates, LLC<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DFC_Associates,_LLC&action=edit&redlink=1>; Former Argentine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina> Minister of the Economy - Martin Feldstein <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Feldstein> - President, National Bureau of Economic Research<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bureau_of_Economic_Research> - Abdulatif Al-Hamad<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abdulatif_Al-Hamad&action=edit&redlink=1> - Chairman, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Fund_for_Economic_and_Social_Development> - Philipp Hildebrand <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Hildebrand> - Chairman of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_National_Bank> - Gerd Häusler<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerd_H%C3%A4usler&action=edit&redlink=1> - CEO, Bayerisch Landesbank<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bayerisch_Landesbank&action=edit&redlink=1>, former Director of International Capital Markets at the IMF - Mervyn Allister King<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_King_(economist)> - Governor of the Bank of England<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_the_Bank_of_England> - Paul Krugman <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman> - Professor of Economics, Woodrow Wilson School<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_School> , Princeton University<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University> - Guillermo Ortiz Martinez<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Ortiz_Martinez> - Former Governor, Banco de México<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_de_M%C3%A9xico> - Kenneth Rogoff <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Rogoff> - Professor, Harvard University<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University> - Tharman Shanmugaratnam<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharman_Shanmugaratnam> - Minister of Finance, Deputy Prime Minister Singapore<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore> - Masaaki Shirakawa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaaki_Shirakawa> - Governor, Bank of Japan - Lawrence Summers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers> - Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University> - Jean-Claude Trichet <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Trichet> - Former president, European Central Bank<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank> - Lord Adair Turner<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord_Adair_Turner&action=edit&redlink=1> - Chairman, Financial Services Authority<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Services_Authority> - Sir David Walker <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_David_Walker> - Senior Advisor Morgan Stanley<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Stanley> - Yutaka Yamaguchi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutaka_Yamaguchi> - Former Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Japan> - Zhou Xiaochuan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Xiaochuan> - Governor, People's Bank of China<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Bank_of_China> - Ernesto Zedillo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Zedillo> - Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Center_for_the_Study_of_Globalization> , Yale University <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University>, and former President of Mexico<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Mexico> [edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Group_of_Thirty&action=edit§ion=6> ]Senior Members - William McDonough <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J_McDonough> - Chairman, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Company_Accounting_Oversight_Board> - William R. Rhodes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Rhodes> - Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup> - Ernest Stern<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Stern&action=edit&redlink=1> - Partner and Senior Advisor, The Rohatyn Group<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rohatyn_Group&action=edit&redlink=1> - Marina v N. Whitman<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_von_Neumann_Whitman> - Professor of Business Administration & Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan> [edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Group_of_Thirty&action=edit§ion=7> ]Emeritus members - Erik Hoffmeyer<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erik_Hoffmeyer&action=edit&redlink=1> - Former Chairman, Danmarks Nationalbank<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danmarks_Nationalbank> - Shijuro Ogata<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shijuro_Ogata&action=edit&redlink=1> - Former Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Japan> - Richard A. Debs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Debs> - Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Stanley> - Wilfried Guth<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilfried_Guth&action=edit&redlink=1> - Former Spokesmen of the Board of Managing Directors, Deutsche Bank<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Bank> - Sylvia Ostry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Ostry> - Distinguished Research Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies, Toronto<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munk_Centre_for_International_Studies> - Gerhard Fels<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerhard_Fels&action=edit&redlink=1> - Former Director, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_der_deutschen_Wirtschaft> - John G. Heimann <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Heimann> - Senior Advisor, Financial Stability Institute<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Stability_Institute> - Toyoo Gyohten<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toyoo_Gyohten&action=edit&redlink=1> - President, Institute for International Monetary Affairs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_International_Monetary_Affairs> - Peter Kenen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kenen> - Senior Fellow in International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations> - Jacques de Larosière<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Larosi%C3%A8re> - Conseiller, BNP Paribas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNP_Paribas> [edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Group_of_Thirty&action=edit§ion=8> ]Other former members Other former members include: - Austrian-American economist, Fritz Machlup<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Machlup> - former Kennedy-era treasury official, Robert Roosa<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Roosa> - former deputy Bank of England governor, Rupert Pennant-Rea<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Pennant-Rea> - former Bundesbank <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesbank> President, Karl Otto Pöhl <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Otto_P%C3%B6hl> - the former Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan> - Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Richardson> - former Honorary Chairman