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ALBANY – As the long-delayed American International Group fraud case inches toward trial, a peculiar sideshow over former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s feelings toward former AIG boss Maurice “Hank” Greenberg has taken center stage. Apparently, the issue is whether Spitzer initiated the case against AIG in 2005 out of spite and hatred.