NEW YORK (AP) — Four-and-a-half years after insurance giant AIG collapsed, leading to the biggest bailout of the financial crisis, former CEO Hank Greenberg has one message: Don't blame me.
Greenberg is the man who spent nearly four decades building AIG into a global insurance power. AIG is the company that nearly collapsed under the weight of toxic mortgage securities and insurance contracts and had to be rescued by the government.
In a new book, "The AIG Story," Greenberg faults others for those failures. In his version of the company's history, he's a hero and a victim.
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