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AIG – a Greek tragedy 'Wickedness' of the wicked and the 'mischief' of the virtuous

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  • Abraham J. Briloff
  • Leonore A. Briloff

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Maurice Greenberg is seen as 'wicked', at least by the Attorney General of the State of New York because Greenberg is accused of being responsible for ancextensive array of accounting distortions providing false and misleading financial statements of American International Group, the insurance enterprise that Greenberg helped create and headed for some 40 years. This essay sees the Greenberg saga as much like a Greek tragedy, along the lines of Oedipus. The essay is less to probe the wickedness of Greenberg than to probe the mischief, which the very virtuous are responsible for, in the years of false and misleading financial statements by AIG. It considers principally the important avenue of the alleged accounting distortions, i.e., related to the use and abuse of reinsurance arrangements.

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  • Abraham J. Briloff & Leonore A. Briloff, 2010. "AIG – a Greek tragedy 'Wickedness' of the wicked and the 'mischief' of the virtuous," International Journal of Critical Accounting, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(1), pages 8-18.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijcrac:v:2:y:2010:i:1:p:8-18
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