Article: AIG charges Public Citizen 'libeled' in report. (American International Group, report on financial crisis)

AIG Charges Public Citizen 'Libeled' In REport

WASHINGTON--Public Citizen libeled American International Group when it charged that AIG was guilty of "troubling business practices" that could threaten the company's solvency, said an attorney for the New York-based insurer in a letter to Public citizen President Joan Claybrook.

"AIG is financially healthy, not unhealthy; financially sound, not unsound; financially unimpaired, not impaired," attorney Floyd Abrams wrote. "Public citizen's statements are dafamatory and false. They are libelous."

However, while AIG again raised the possibility of a lawsuit over the charges, the company offered the ...

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