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...controls, Starr International, took when he left his former employer. AIG says those shares and the more than $4 billion in profits Starr International has reaped from past stock sales are the property of the insurer and its employees. But rather than fight over the merits of the case, both sides have spent the past few weeks arguing that they should win because what they plan to do with the money is more worthy than what the other side has planned. "You do see this sort of thing in cases that involve people with dubious reputations in the public...
...complicated case stems from the departure of Greenberg in 2005, when he was ousted from AIG, a company he ran for 37 years, amid an accounting scandal. While the case gets at the wacky bonuses and compensation structure present at AIG for years, the facts of it predates the mortgage mess and the company's current troubles...
...stakes in the case have only increased now that AIG's fortunes have plummeted in the financial crisis. AIG's market capitalization has plunged 95% in the past year to a recent $4.3 billion. That means, should AIG be able to recapture it, the trove of cash and assets sitting at Starr, which has collected $4 billion from selling AIG shares in the past few years, could end up being one of AIG most valuable assets. That has made the mudslinging all the more intense...
...what is surely a well-rehearsed demonstration by now, Bremner goes on to address the case against Knox, point by point. The prosecution, she says, is most likely relying on a knife found at the house of Knox's then boyfriend and fellow accused Rafaelle Sollecito. That knife has Knox's DNA on the handle and what some forensic scientists say is Kercher's DNA on the tip. But Bremner dismisses the idea that it is the knife that killed Kercher: "They never found the murder weapon." Bremner claims that a bloody print on the bed linens conveys the shape...
...away in her native Seattle. There, one of Amanda Knox's most vocal backers is attorney Anne Bremner, who has offered her counsel pro bono to the accused's family and is a spokeswoman for Friends of Amanda. On Friday, she sat down with TIME to go over the case against Knox, who took the witness stand on Friday in her murder trial...