ALBANY – The private e-mails of Eliot Spitzer—who as attorney general tapped into corporate e-mails to build some of his biggest cases against Wall Street tycoons—are subject to the state Freedom of Information Law to the extent that they deal with public business, an upstate judge has held.
Supreme Court Justice Christopher Cahill (See Profile) ordered the Attorney General’s Office to “gain access to [Spitzer's] private e-mail account” in connection with its seven-year-old civil fraud case against Howard Smith, the former CFO of American International Group (AIG).
