A federal judge has cleared for trial a claim by former AIG executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg that the U.S. government acted inappropriately when it took control of AIG in September 2008.

Greenberg, through Starr International, a former AIG unit, owns 13% of AIG.

He claimed in a lawsuit, first filed in 2011 and refiled several times afterward, that the way the federal government handled AIG's bailout amounted "to an attempt to 'steal the business.'"

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