NU Online News Service, Aug. 22, 3:25 p.m. EDT

Former Marsh executive William Gilman has filed a $60 million complaint against Eliot Spitzer and The Slate Group, LLC over an article Spitzer wrote for Slate that is, according to the complaint, "patently false and defamatory to [Gilman] in several respects."

Spitzer's Aug. 22, 2010 article in Slate was a response to an earlier Wall Street Journal editorial that characterized a judge's July 2010 decision to throw out the convictions of Gilman and Edward McNenney as a defeat for then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office "on still another Spitzer-created prosecution."

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