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...In April 2003, ten investment banks signed a $1.4bn settlement with a panoply of US regulators, led by then-New York attorney-general Eliot Spitzer, and agreed to major structural reforms to separate equity...
...Spitzer decided to make a name for himself by investigating conflicts of interest in Wall Street research notes....
...This was a difficult tightrope to tread and not everyone succeeded — leading to significant fines and reforms introduced by former New York State attorney-general Eliot Spitzer, which sought to decouple...
...Spitzer and the US Securities and Exchange Commission....
...The problems with the first tactic became public in 2002, when Eliot Spitzer, then an ambitious New York attorney-general, revealed that star analysts had privately disparaged the stocks they publicly touted...
...Two decades on from the Eliot Spitzer settlement that shook up the investment research business, there are four reasons why it is still shrivelling in size and credibility: declining information advantage...
...In 2006, at the behest of then-governor Eliot Spitzer, architect Vishaan Chakrabarti hatched a plan to move it to the historic Farley Post Office building just across Eighth Avenue....
...From Eliot Spitzer to Harvey Weinstein to the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried, powerful people in crisis mode know to call Risa Heller. New York Magazine profiles the famous flack....
...Previous disgraced New York politicians, including Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer, have tried and failed to mount comebacks....
...Pundits predict that James may follow her predecessors, Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo, to the governor’s mansion. There is a reason why AG is jokingly described as shorthand for “aspiring governor”....
...I will never forget the look of frozen dutifulness on the face of Silda Wall Spitzer alongside her husband, Eliot Spitzer, the last New York governor to be felled by a sex scandal (in 2008)....
...Eliot Spitzer was forced to resign in 2008 after only a year in the governor’s office following revelations that the one-time “Sheriff of Wall Street” patronised a high-priced prostitution service....
...Then there is Eliot Spitzer, the onetime “Sheriff of Wall Street” and former New York governor who resigned in disgrace in 2008 after a prostitution scandal....
...The one time they fell out was when Stone, a self-confessed libertine, met a woman in a Miami swingers’ club who had been a call-girl for Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York....
...Spitzer were using their enforcement powers to try to counteract him....
...He was referring, in particular, to the Martin Act — the sweeping anti-fraud statute that a previous New York attorney-general, Eliot Spitzer, used to devastating effect against Wall Street after the bursting...
...At one time Mr Gianaris was mentioned as a possible successor to Eliot Spitzer as New York attorney-general — although the post instead went to Mr Cuomo, en route to the governor’s mansion....
...The events are also eerily reminiscent of Mr Schneiderman’s predecessor Eliot Spitzer. Like Mr Schneiderman, he used the office to bring high-profile cases against financial services groups....
...Previous holders of the position include Eliot Spitzer, who became known as the “sheriff of Wall Street” for pursuing wide-ranging legal cases against the industry....
...Because of New York’s role as the US financial capital, the state’s chief legal officer has become known as the “sheriff of Wall Street”, after previous holders such as Eliot Spitzer used it to pursue wide-ranging...
...For instance, in the 2000s, Eliot Spitzer, then New York state attorney-general, came after Langone for his role in approving a $140m compensation package for Dick Grasso, then president of the New York...
...This was exposed by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer after the dotcom crash of 2000, leading to tighter regulation and a wave of independent research boutiques....
...It lurched from Eliot Spitzer’s accounting investigation that resulted in a $1.6bn settlement in 2006 to needing a $185bn government rescue two years later just to survive at the height of the financial...
...Mr Greenberg stood aside from AIG, at the time the world’s biggest insurer, in 2005 during a probe into its accounting practices by Eliot Spitzer, the state’s then attorney-general....
...AIG — which was also accused in the original suit — paid $1.6bn in 2006 to resolve the claims brought against it 12 years ago by Eliot Spitzer, former state attorney-general....
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