We finally have an answer in the case of whether the government was too mean to AIG when it bailed out the insurance giant in the fall of 2008.
Thomas Wheeler, a judge in the United States Court of Federal Claims, said Monday that the terms of the government's bail out were, in fact, illegally harsh.
However, he awarded no damages to Starr International, the corporation chaired by Hank Greenberg, which was in 2008 one of AIG's the largest shareholders. Greenberg, remember, was CEO of AIG for several decades leading up to and including 2008.
(Yes, this was basically a case of the former CEO of a company that got a massive bailout from the government coming to the courts and
arguing that the government was too mean to him.)