Howard Smith, a former American Insurance Group executive, is seeking them as part of his defense in an ongoing civil
fraud suit started in 2005 by then - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
If Heartland wanted to make the first move they could very reasonably
start with a
fraud charge and even if they couldn't make it stick Gleick could not complain about the
suit being a frivolous one, which might be enough to kill him financially on its own without even pressing any further charges, just a series of appeals.