ALBANY – A former American International Group executive who has spent nearly seven years attempting to obtain Eliot Spitzer’s private emails has issued something of a dare to the onetime attorney general and governor: If you insist there are no such emails, say so under oath.

Howard Smith, AIG’s ex-CFO, is challenging Spitzer to swear under oath to what he has repeatedly said publicly—that he never used a personal email account to discuss an ongoing civil fraud case against Smith and AIG’s ex-CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg.