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...early 1980s, while studying at Harvard Law School (HLS), Eliot L. Spitzer worked as a research assistant for one of his professors. Today, that professor has come to Spitzer’s defense as the governor of New York finds himself embroiled in a public controversy after evidence surfaced linking him to a prostitution ring. Alan M. Dershowitz has talked to various media outlets, including ABC’s Boston affiliate and the New York Times, about his take on the situation, in the midst of widespread criticism and numerous calls for Spitzer’s immediate resignation...
...Spitzer’s involvement in an upscale Washington prostitution ring. Spitzer’s downfall is particularly “tragic” in the Greek sense of the word: His meteoric rise to power closely mirrored Sarkozy’s. Existentially pugnacious, detested and admired at once, Spitzer paid his dues as New York’s Attorney General, where he dazzled with his unflinching resolve to take on Wall Street corruption and white-collar crime. He won himself a fair number of enemies but even more supporters; they catapulted him to the governorship and placed him among...
...secure the borders, go after illegal immigration and crack down on employers. They all have the basics now... And we have the Democrats now talking. I mean look at what happened to [New York Senator Hillary Clinton] when she... tried to address the issue of [New York Governor Eliot] Spitzer's trying to give illegal immigrants drivers licenses and it cost her severely. It cost her in the polls and it cost him: he had to withdraw the proposal. And none of these things would've ever have happened six months ago. Now is it just because of Tom Tancredo...
...Grasso. But when Grasso, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, tried in 2003 to cash in early, the revelations about his staggering paycheck triggered an imbroglio that ended his eight-year reign as King of the Club and brought a lawsuit by then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Was Grasso, who was interviewed for the book, a victim of the post-Enron era or just another fat-cat CEO? Both. Gasparino insists that Grasso was "one of the most remarkable men Wall Street and corporate America has ever seen" as well as an autocrat whose "obsession with...
Hillary slipped. Eliot Spitzer slipped and then split. If Americans had looked at the facts, both would have landed on their feet. The junior senator and governor of New York demonstrated the pragmatism and candor sorely needed in the immigration debate, and were sadly tongue-lashed for their wise judgment Two weeks ago, Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) made her first unfashionable maneuver of the primaries. Questioned by Tim Russert as to whether or not she supported Gov. Spitzer’s unpopular plan to allow state driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants, Hillary was hesitant to give...