Beat it, Hank!
That’s the message from Eliot Spitzer to AIG founder Hank Greenberg, who has been waging an eight-year legal battle to obtain Spitzer’s private e-mails as part of a bid to get the former attorney general’s fraud suit against him tossed.
“I do not have nor have I had any e-mails that should be turned over,” Spitzer told The Post yesterday.
Greenberg, along with former AIG CFO Howard Smith, believes that Spitzer’s e-mails will show he harbored a personal vendetta in his public crackdown on Wall Street.
Current AG Eric Schneiderman has appealed a court decision ordering him to turn over Spitzer’s e-mails. The appeals court is set to take up the matter in mid-September.
In a new brief, Smith’s attorney argued that the “burden of searching for and locating documents” falls on Schneiderman.
A spokesman for Schneiderman said he would issue a response soon.