“Surreptitious” emails will show AIG attack was political
Lawyers for former AIG bosses Hank Greenberg and Howard Smith are seeking private emails that former New York attorney general Spitzer used in his 2005 prosecution of Greenberg for alleged fraud, the New York Post reports.
Spitzer operated an email account "surreptitiously" at his offices to avoid a public paper trail, court documents claimed.
Greenberg's lawyers claim Spitzer used private emails to contact AIG insiders and to get the media to write flattering stories about Spitzer's political future.
Helped win governor race
Court documents claim, an email led Spitzer to boast to a Newsweek reporter that his "high-profile pursuit of Greenberg 'metastasized' his reputation" and helped him win the governor's race.
Virtually all the Spitzer charges against Greenberg have been thrown out of court after nearly five years, prompting Greenberg to call the case "politically motivated misconduct and a witch hunt to enhance Spitzer's political career."
For nearly two years, current New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo has resisted Greenberg's freedom-of-information requests to turn over the private hoard of emails.
