Legal Commentary

Considering the whole man

By Tom Kirkendall

Over the years, I've written quite a bit (for example, here, here and here) on the questionable nature of the prosecutions of the executives who were involved in the AIG/General Re finite risk transaction that prompted Eliot Spitzer to demonize Hank Greenberg.

However, I've never written as eloquently about the injustice of those prosecutions as Anthony O'Donnell does in this I&T post about the sentencing of former AIG vice-president of reinsurance, Christian Milton.

As noted previously here, the human toll of these prosecutions is incalculable.

A truly civil society would find a better way.

Full post as published by Houston's Clear Thinkers on January 30, 2009 (boomark / email).