# Professor Maria Patterson discusses the role of the Martin Act in the trial of former AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg

1 Faculty News September 11, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/business/dealbook/after-11-years-case-of-aigs-ex-chief-is-going-to-trial.html?_r=0) -- "[Maria Patterson](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/maria-patterson), who teaches business ethics and law at the Stern School of Business at New York University, said the state might be aided in court by the lack of a requirement to prove fraudulent intent, which is generally required in federal fraud cases. The state’s anti-fraud Martin Act, she said, 'is designed to deal with deceit that does not comply with standards of common honesty.'"

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