Judge Tosses Hank Greenberg’s Lawsuit Against Eliot Spitzer, Insults Him To His Face

Former AIG chief Hank Greenberg and former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer have a lot in common. Both are children of Manhattan, used to getting their way and extremely rich. Oh, yea, and both were forced to resign in disgrace at the pinnacles of their careers. Still, given that Spitzer’s pursuit of Greenberg helped lead to the latter’s resignation (well, retirement) in disgrace a few years before his own, leading to a genuine loathing between the two so fierce that Greenberg has spent the better part of his 80s and 90s litigating his downfall rather than, say, with his grandchildren and beloved dog, it’s a bit gauche to notice the similarities in Greenberg’s presence. But so exasperated was the judge overseeing Greenberg’s defamation suit against Spitzer—who called AIG’s accounting under Greenberg “fraudulent” on television just after his successor as New York attorney general did in a legal settlement Greenberg signed off on—that he went there.