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...“Harvey Pitt was one of the greatest securities lawyers of his generation and a great friend to the mutual fund industry,” remembered Paul Schott Stevens, former chief executive of the Investment Company...
...But preservationists’ objected, Spitzer was ousted after a prostitution scandal, the 2008 financial crisis erupted, and the effort died....
...‘The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth’ by Michael Spitzer is published by Bloomsbury on April 1 Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Trump had donated money to Spitzer’s campaigns....
...Eliot Spitzer’s attack on conflict-riddled boosterism forced brokerages to separate analysis from banking and cut down on the former....
...Few businesses or individuals (save, perhaps, Bear Stearns or Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor) have fallen so far, so quickly....
...Eliot Spitzer, then attorney-general of New York, had argued that states cannot protect their citizens from predatory mortgage practices if they are pre-empted by federal regulators....
...One problem is that public and private enforcers – plaintiffs’ lawyers, the SEC attorneys-general, such as Eliot Spitzer of New York, and self-regulatory bodies such as the NASD, the securities dealers’...
...“It does have the hallmarks of the way Spitzer brings cases,” says Steven Kobre, of Kobre & Kim, a law firm, and a former assistant US attorney for the southern district of New York....
...“Insurance is a very difficult business to manage,” says Steven Dreyer, managing director at Standard & Poor’s. “There's a strong motivation to spread out bad news.”...
...His successor, Steven Crawshaw, has rapidly gone back to basics....
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