Crime | Eliot Spitzer Spitzer Hit With $90M Libel Suit Slate column enrages former insurance execs By Rob Quinn Posted Aug 23, 2011 3:42 AM CDT Updated Aug 23, 2011 3:59 AM CDT Copied Eliot Spitzer's CNN show was cancelled earlier this year. (Getty Images) Two former execs at an insurance firm that paid out $850 million to settle allegations of shady dealing brought by Eliot Spitzer in his days as a crusading attorney general are now suing the former governor for libel. The former Marsh & McLennan execs, who claim Spitzer libeled them in a recent column for Slate entitled "They Still Don't Get It," are seeking $90 million in damages, Reuters reports. Neither man is named in the column, which stated that Marsh's behavior was a "blatant abuse of law and market power." Spitzer then listed illegal acts that he wrote were "designed" to harm customers. Both men were indicted on dozens of charges following Spitzer's probe. They were found guilty on one count of restraint of trade and competition, but that conviction was later overturned. Read These Next Trumps ends trade talks with Canada. Gavin Newsom has filed a massive lawsuit against Fox News. New York Times ranks the best movies of the 21st century. White House rolls with Trump's 'daddy' nickname. Report an error