Starr International Co. v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER ON DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS

WHEELER, Judge.

This case arises from the Government's bailout of American International Group, Inc. (“AIG”) in September 2008 as AIG faced a liquidity crisis. At that time, Plaintiff, Starr International Company, Inc. (“Starr”) was one of the largest shareholders of AIG common stock. Starr alleges that rather than providing the liquidity support it offered to comparable financial institutions, Defendant (“the Government”)1 exploited AIG’s vulnerable financial position by becoming a controlling lender and controlling shareholder of AIG in…