Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer (born June 10, 1959, Bronx, New York, U.S.) is an American lawyer and politician who was governor of New York from 2007 to 2008. As the state’s attorney general (1999–2006), he gained national attention for his aggressive pursuit of corruption in the financial industry. Spitzer was educated at Princeton University (B.A., 1981) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1984), where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation he served as...