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<DESCRIPTION>LETTERS SENT TO CEO CHENAULT AND CORP SECR SCHWARTZ
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                          Wednesday, April 14, 2010
CEO Ken Chenault, Esq.
American Express
200 Vesey St
NYC, NY  10281
Subject: You violated SEC rules on misleading statements to
Shareholder  Proposals in reply to my Shareholder Proposal of April
27, 2009.
Dear Ken,

	I seek written permission to attend the April 26, 2010 American Express
Shareholder  meeting in NYC, since Amex stopped me under court order from
attending the 2007 meeting,  and with it, also filing with the SEC.

	Since this matter has been coming up since 2007, can we have a colloquy
on  the subject?    I wish Secretary of the Corporation Carol Schwartz, Esq.
to  investigate and compel you to reply.   I intend to file this as a
complaint to  the SEC.  At the bottom of the letter, I list the applicable
Code of Conduct  pages which state that Ken and others are subject to
investigation for making a   misleading statement in reply to

	Here's what I said to you in the April 2009 Shareholder meeting

"Let me put it simply. I was a nine year employee of American Express working
for a new manager who in 1998 sexually harassed me. Then and seven years
later  you violated Amex's code of conduct by retaliating and cost me a new
job. The  Amex code of conduct is not working for me and chances are it's not
working for  a lot of people."
[AXP-Transcript-2009-04-27T14_00.pdf]

	You opposed my Shareholder Proposal by saying to me (in essence) that
the  Code works,  and that the integrity and values of the employees at Amex
are  good, and that Steve Norman did  one heck of a job. That is true, if you
ignore  the facts.  I was not speaking of the 60,000 Amex  employees in
general, but  rather the group of 5-10 employees in particular involved in my
case  where Qing  breached the June 2000 Amex-Lindner Contract, lied about
doing so for 4 years,  got  paid salary and bonuses for covering it up
instead of reporting it to his  manager Ash Gupta, now  the President of
Banking at Amex, and Jason Brown, Esq.  who informed me face-to-face in
February 2006 that Qing admitted to Jason that  Qing said "I don't think
Peter Lindner can work  at American Express" and Jason  promptly denied
saying that to me via responding to my email  that night, and
then both Jason and Qing admitted those facts under oath in January 2009.

	I asked Amex on 4/27/2009 for the transcript and video of your remarks
of  the April 27  2009 meeting and did not get them for 9 months.  But now I
have  the transcript, and you, sir,  have violated the rules of the
Securities and  Exchange Commission 14a-8 on making misleading  statements on
Shareholder  Proposals.  You have also violated the Amex Code of Conduct
which  holds every  employee including you responsible for fixing a problem
and reporting the  ethical  dilemma to the Secretary of the Corporation (in
this case, Carol  Schwartz, Esq.).

CAROL SCHWARTZ:  Please compel Ken to answer these questions, as the Code of
Conduct says  you are empowered to investigate and that all such requests
must  be cooperated with.  The Code  of Conduct says on page 1 that there are
no  exceptions for anyone including Ken, you [Carol],  Jason, Ash working for
Amex,  regardless of your function, and earlier it says you [Ken, Carol]  are
"personally accountable for delivering on [Amex's] commitments":

"We must uphold these standards in all of our dealings with each other and
our  stakeholders-including our customers, shareholders, vendors, other
business  partners and government regulators. ... No waivers or exceptions
to the Code will be made under any circumstances for  anyone working on
American Express's behalf, regardless of job function."

	Finally, I have prepared the topics on which I wish to speak, as a
courtesy so that you and  your staff can research the matter and be prepared
to
give an educated response, and perhaps post  these answers on the web in
advance, so that we can have Amex's Shareholders know what the  issues are.

	The topics are in detail:

1.	Why not revise the Amex Code of Conduct ("Code")

2.	Did Qing Lin, who reported to Ash Gupta, now the President of Banking
at  Amex,  violate the Code in March 2005 by breaching the June 2000 Amex-
Lindner  Contract  signed by his manager Ash, and not report his possible
conflict of  interest in hating me  and wanting to give "any information" to
FischerJordan  and also in not telling  FischerJordan to contact Human
Resources (HR), as  required by 13 of the June 2000  Amex-Lindner Contract?

3.	What did you know and when did you know it about this matter,
considering  that both  Qing and Jason Brown, Esq. (Amex's Sr. VP in Amex's
General Counsel  Office) said  under oath in January 2009 that Qing gave "any
information" to  FischerJordan in 2005,  and that Qing explained it to Jason
by saying that he  told FischerJordan "I don't think  Peter Lindner can work
at American Express"?

4.	Were you aware that I asked Secretary of the Corporation Stephen
Norman,  Esq. in  December 2005 to look into these possible Code violations,
and that he  assigned Jason to  look into it?

5.	Were you aware that I asked FischerJordan's Boaz Salik (who had spoken
to  Qing)  whether Boaz would reveal all details if someone high up in Amex
would  directly ask  him?  And that Boaz said that Secretary of the
Corporation Stephen  Norman, Esq. would  be sufficiently high up?  And that
Mr. Norman refused to do  so, and instead said that  Jason would?

6.	Were the managers of Jason, Qing, and Mr. Norman aware of these
possible  Code  violations?

7.	Were you aware at the April 2009 Shareholder meeting where I told you
that  I informed  Mr. Gupta and Mr. Norman in 2005, and they did nothing to
ask Qing -  even as minimal  as ask Qing to sit down for 1 hour in a room by
himself and  write a memo to Jason as to  what Qing said or did not say to
FischerJordan?:    "Well Mr. Ken Chenault Esquire -- you know that the Amex
code of conduct  is  not working. So does Ash Gupta, the president of banking
at Amex. In  1998 and  in 2005 and still in 2009, Amex violated its code of
conduct  that applies to all  employees, including Mr. Gupta and you, Mr.
Chenault.     Let me put it simply. I was a nine year employee of American
Express  working  for a new manager who in 1998 sexually harassed me. Then
and  seven years later  you violated Amex's code of conduct by retaliating
and  cost me a new job. The  Amex code of conduct is not working for me and
chances are it's not working for  a lot of people."  [AXP-Transcript-2009-04-
27T14_00.pdf]

8.	Did you authorized your attorneys to deceive the Southern District of
New  York Court in  April 2009 by telling USDJ Koeltl that Amex did not stop
me from  communicating with  the Securities and Exchange Commission prior to
2009, when  in fact Amex did so in  April 2007?  Did you ask your attorneys
to check if this  is true or not?  Hint: Ms. Jean  Park, Esq. of Kelley Drye
& Warren LLP did ask  that of Magistrate Judge Katz in April  2007.

9.	Did you know that NY Judiciary Law  section 487 makes it a (criminal)
misdemeanor  for an  attorney to intend to deceive a Court in NY State,
subject to treble  damages in civil  court?  Do you feel that, under
attorney's advice, such a law  does not apply to Amex's  attorneys'
statements in Federal Court, and thus they  do not need to comply with it?

10.	Do you feel that Qing and Ash Gupta, now the President of Banking at
Amex,  did not  ever discuss this matter prior to the April 2009 Shareholder
meeting?   On what do you  base that knowledge?

11.	According to the Code, since Amex offered me $75,000, which I accepted
in  the June  2000 Amex-Lindner Contract, do you feel that it's okay for the
VP (who  caused the  problem in 1998 by alleged sexual harassment of me)
should be  allowed to breach this  contract signed by Amex and then cover it
up?  Do you  feel that Ash has any  responsibility to look into it, after he
was informed by  certified letter in 2005 and 2006?

12.	Do you feel that it is good Shareholder and Securities and Exchange
Commission  practice to videotape and audiotape Shareholder meetings, but
against the standards of  fair play and openness, refuse to allow me to get
the  DVD (which I paid for) of Qing's  and Jason's admission?

13.	Given that you are a lawyer and CEO in NY State, do you feel that you
either  intentionally or unintentionally lied to Amex's Shareholders when you
said that the Code  works, instead of saying you're not familiar with the
issue,  or that the Code did not work  for me and for Qing and for Jason?
Here's what  you said:    "Thank you, Mr. Lindner. Let me say I have full
confidence in the  Company's  code of conduct and the integrity and values of
our employees,  for Steve who  handled this from an administrative channel."
[Ibid.]

14.	Do you feel that employee Shareholders who own about $500million
dollars  of Amex  stock should not be forewarned of my Shareholder Proposal,
so that they  can think about  it, and perhaps vote for it, instead of having
Secretary of the  Corporation Carol Schwartz,  Esq. announce in the Amex
preliminary filing of  March 2, 2010 that she plans to vote  those shares
"AGAINST" my proposal?

15.	Do you feel there's a parallel between the Catholic Church's cover-up
of  the alleged  sexual harassment by Priests of 200 deaf children in
Wisconsin and  Amex's protection  and cover-up of Qing for his actions which
violate the Amex  Code and the June 2000  Amex-Lindner Contract signed by Ash
and Amex?

16.	Given that the Code applies to future, present and past possible
ethical  conflicts, have  Jason, Ash, Carol Schwartz, Mr. Norman, and you
consulted with  their managers about  this matter of a conflict of interest
and possible  violation of law and of Amex's June 2000  Amex-Lindner
Contract?

17.	Given that Amex's Risk Management Group headed by Ash believe in data
based  decision making, did Amex look at the data?

18.	Given that Amex took several billions of dollars of TARP money from the
USA, did  Amex not only possibly violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, but also Title  VI for Government vendors?

19.	In June 2009, I had a problem with my PC which was covered by Amex's
Double  Warranty, and Amex did not stand behind the warranty after twice
trying  to fix the fatally  flawed PC - was this retaliation against me?

20.	Given that last year the vote was 900million to 2,000, wouldn't it be
appropriate to allow  shareholders sufficient time to vote after hearing my
speech, especially since web voting  stops 3 days before the meeting?

21.	Can we put all this information on the web and/or file it with the SEC
so  that the  Shareholders can decide?

Looking forward to your prompt response (at least on the contours of how you
plan to  respond),

      Sincerely yours,

Peter W. Lindner
1 Irving Place, #G-23-C
NYC, NY 10003
Home/Fax: 212-979-9647
Cell:     917-207-4962
Email:    nyc10003@nyc.rr.com



MEMO OF LAW, SO TO SPEAK, FOR SECRETARY OF THE CORPORATION CAROL SCHWARTZ,
ESQ.

Ms. Schwartz:

Here are the sections of the Amex Code of Conduct which I say authorizes you
to  investigate  Ken's violations, as well as the cover-up by Qing and by
Jason  Brown for 4 years.  I also list for  Ken and you, since you are both
lawyers,  the SEC excerpt on misleading statements on  Shareholder Proposals.


Sincerely yours,


Peter W. Lindner
1 Irving Place, #G-23-C
NYC, NY 10003
Home/Fax: 212-979-9647
Cell:     917-207-4962
Email:    nyc10003@nyc.rr.com



LIST OF CODE OF CONDUCT EXCERPTS:

Ms. Schwartz, there are several places in the code that compel Ken to answer,
specifically page 5  "You [Ken Chenault and Jason Brown] are expected to
participate, when asked, in any  investigations of misconduct."  If Jason
Brown  is still an Amex VP in Amex's  General  Counsel's Office, he must
reconcile why  he denied Qing's statement to me "I don't think Peter  Lindner
can work at  American Express" in March 2006's email to me, but then did not
include it  in  his report to Secretary of the Corporation Stephen Norman,
and did not report it  to his  manager, and then acknowledged it under oath
in January 2009.  And Ken  has to account for  making a misleading statement
to the Shareholders in April  2009 that Steve did a good  investigative job,
and that the employees (e.g.  Qing, Jason, and Ash) did have integrity and
values as per the Code of Conduct.

1.	Page 49 of the Amex Code of Conduct on "Where To Seek Help And Report
Concerns" "To disclose potential conflicts of interest or other Code matters,
contact the  Corporate Secretary's Office."

2.	page 48:  "-How would I feel if it were broadcast on the nightly news?
-Could it be viewed or interpreted as inappropriate or unethical?"

3.	page 40: "INTEGRITY We uphold the highest standards of integrity in all
of  our actions."

4.	page 24: "Communicating with the Public about American Express To
protect  our Company's information and ensure it is released to the public
accurately  and consistently, only designated spokespersons  may communicate
with the  public on behalf of American Express. ... In addition, only members
of the  Communications Department within CA&C, or  individuals they
designate, are  authorized to represent or publicly discuss our  Company on
the Internet. You  may not post information about or participate in
conversations regarding our  Company on external websites-including blogs,
discussion boards, social media  sites or any other publicly available online
resources-without prior approval  from CA&C. For more information, please see
our External Communications and  Investor Relations Policy."

5.	page 16: "A: Most likely, yes, but Bill should disclose this potential
conflict of interest to  the Corporate Secretary"

6.	page 14: "Conf licts of Interest We must avoid all real or potential
conflicts between our personal interests and  those of American Express. ...
conflict between our personal interests and the interests of our Company. ...
If  a conflict or potential conflict arises, you must disclose it immediately
to  your  leader or the Corporate Secretary."

7.	page 9: "Our Commitment To Each Other Freedom from Harassment We are
expected to promote a work environment free from harassment ... "Harassment"
includes offensive behavior ... intimidating or hostile work  environment.
Conduct ... verbally, whether it's done in person or by other means (such as
harassing notes or emails),"

8.	page 8: "Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity We must support our
Company's commitment to diversity and equal employment  opportunity.
...[including] sexual orientation"

9.	page 5: which includes your vendor Jean Park, Esq. of Kelley Drye &
Warren  LLP who  tried to stop me from attending the April 2009 Amex
Shareholder meeting  after  Secretary of the Corporation Stephen Norman gave
permission for me to  attend: "Where To Seek Help And Report Concerns Making
Reports If you have  reason to believe that any American Express employee, or
anyone  working on our  Company's behalf, may have engaged in ethical or
legal misconduct, you  have a  duty to your colleagues and our Company to
report your concerns. Doing so helps   our Company to address issues and
prevent future misconduct. ... You are  expected to participate, when asked,
in any investigations of  misconduct."

10.	page 4: "Where To Seek Help And Report Concerns ... *	The Corporate
Secretary"

11.	page 2: "Our Shared Responsibilities ...If we find ourselves in a
situation where customary conduct is at odds with the  Code, Company policy
and/or local laws or regulations, we must comply with the  more stringent
standard. If you're unsure which rule to follow, seek guidance  from your
leader, your Compliance Officer or the General Counsel's Office. ... Our
Leaders' Responsibilities Leaders must also be alert to any situations or
actions that may violate the letter or  spirit of the Code or Company policy,
or  may damage our Company's reputation.  It is important that they take
immediate  action to address such situations. When  leaders receive reports
of a situation  that is unethical or potentially damaging to  our Company's
reputation, or  suspect that one exists, they must promptly notify  their
Compliance Officer and  work to resolve the issue. Resolution of the issue
may also involve  consultation with the appropriate subject matter expert."

12.	Page 1: "We must uphold these standards in all of our dealings with
each  other and our  stakeholders-including our customers, shareholders,
vendors,  other business  partners and government regulators. ... No waivers
or exceptions  to the Code will be made under any circumstances for  anyone
working on American  Express's behalf, regardless of job function."

13.	Page iii: "Integrity We uphold the highest standards of integrity in
all  of our actions. ... Personal Accountability We are personally
accountable for  delivering on our commitments."

14.  Page i, Ken writes and signs his name that increased scrutiny requires
you  to resolve and  correct violations.  Moreover, Ms. Jean Park knew in
March 2008  when she turned over  in evidence discovery that Jason Brown
recorded that Qing  said "I don't think Peter  Lindner can work at American
Express" and yet she  asked me if I were using drugs and  perhaps had an
auditory hallucination to  make me think that Qing violated the June 2000
Amex-Lindner Contract.  This  question by Ms. Park is a form of retaliation
against my  good faith effort in  July 2005 and February 2006 to report what
Qing said, and Ms. Park  retaliated  to have it look like I hallucinated
Qing's actions and words:

"This is more important now than ever before, as corporate business
practices are increasingly scrutinized and regulation of our  industry
intensifies.  ... [The Code of Conduct is] to assist you in  resolving
potentially troublesome issues and contact information to  help you
seek advice. ... The principles of the Code apply to  everyone at
American Express, regardless of job function or  seniority. Each of us
must do our part to prevent or correct   violations. ... Our Company
will treat reports of violations  confidentially, and no one who
reports a suspected violation in good  faith will be subject to
retaliation for making such a report."

All of these page numbers are in the Amex Code of Conduct, which is found on:

http://phx.corporate-
ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MTI1MDJ8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1



LINDNER SUMMARY TO KEN ON SEC BASIS FOR MISLEADING STATEMENTS ON MY
SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Dear Ken,

I believe you made a misleading statement in the April 2009 Shareholder's
Meeting in response  to my Shareholder Proposal on a Truth Commission
regarding  Amex's Code of Conduct, with  regard to EEOC.  You basically said
it was good,  the people were good, and Secretary of the  Corporation Steve
(Stephen Norman)  was good.  All 3 are incorrect, if you were referring to
the  same incidents I  was talking about.  Of course, if you were just
engaged in puffery, like saying   "Amex is the best in the world" or 'this is
the best hamburger,' then you might
be forgiven.

	But the SEC and the Amex Code of Conduct both have higher standards.
Given that  Qing Lin resigned or was fired some two weeks after I raised that
fact in the meeting that Qing  violated the June 2000 Amex-Lindner Contract
in  March/April 2005, and covered it up with the  aid of Amex VP Jason Brown,
Esq.,  surely the Code was not working.  Both should have  admitted their
quandary, and  risked forfeiting their jobs, instead of keeping their jobs
and  bonuses for 4  years and not telling the truth to me or to their bosses.

"(2) However, if you believe that the company's opposition to
your  proposal contains materially  false or misleading
statements that may  violate our anti-fraud rule,  section 240.14a-9, you
should  promptly send to the  Commission staff and the company a
letter explaining the reasons for your   view, along with a copy
of the company's statements opposing your  proposal. To the
extent  possible, your letter should include specific  factual
information demonstrating the inaccuracy of  the company's
claims.  Time permitting, you may wish to try to work out your
differences with the   company by yourself before contacting the
Commission staff.

(3) We require the company to send you a copy of its statements
opposing  your proposal before it  sends its proxy materials, so
that you may bring  to our attention any materially false or
misleading  statements, under the  following timeframes:

(i)	If our no-action response requires that you make revisions
to  your proposal or  supporting statement as a condition
to requiring  the company to include it in its proxy
materials, then the company  must provide you with a copy
of its opposition statements no  later  than 5 calendar
days after the company receives a copy of your  revised
proposal; or
(ii)	In all other cases, the company must provide you with a
copy of  its opposition  statements no later than 30
calendar days before its  files definitive copies of its
proxy  statement and form of proxy  under  section 240.14a-6."

[Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 14a-8   Shareholder
proposals] http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-
idx?c=ecfr&sid=6cdfaad0270f56d99488287357545cfc&rgn=div8&view=tex
t&node=17 : 3.0.1.1.1.2.78.198&idno=17

  I asked these questions via email on Sat 3/27/2010 4:27 PM to Joe Sacca.







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