Justice Department lawyers argued the bailout, which ultimately rose to $US182.3 billion, raised the value of AIG shares. AIG finished repaying the bailout in 2012, leaving US taxpayers with a nearly $US23 billion profit. Greenberg, who was ousted from AIG in 2005 after almost four decades at the helm, is due shortly to face trial in a separate lawsuit brought against him by New York state, which accuses him and Howard Smith, a former AIG financial officer, of accounting fraud at AIG from 2000 to 2005.