NU Online News Service, May 5, 11:45 a.m.EDT--Former American International GroupChief Executive Officer Maurice Greenberg lambasted company boardmembers yesterday for what he believes are their high-handedmethods in addressing disputed accounting issues and possibleexecutive wrongdoing.

Mr. Greenberg's letter to board members centered on AIG's pressrelease earlier this week detailing a planned restatement of fiveyears of financial results due to accounting improprieties.

"Given the innuendo contained in the AIG release of May 1, whichcan be interpreted as impugning the integrity of prior and presentAIG management, I was surprised that the release provided nofactual basis to explain why AIG or [company auditor]PricewaterhouseCoopers changed its position," Mr. Greenbergwrote.

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