Former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is potentially liable in a defamation action brought by longtime nemesis Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the removed chief executive officer of American International Group (AIG), a judge in Putnam County said.
Supreme Court Justice Lewis Lubell (See Profie) found that while most of the derogatory comments Spitzer made about Greenberg in the media and in his book are not actionable, either because they are substantially true or privileged, others are reasonably susceptible to a defamatory connotation and form the basis for viable complaint.
