Eliot Spitzer

1959 – 20??

Eliot Laurence Spitzer is an American politician and attorney who served as the 54th governor of New York from 2007 to 2008 and previously as the state's attorney general from 1999 to 2006. He resigned the governorship in March 2008 after federal investigators identified him as Client 9 of the Emperors Club VIP escort service, having spent tens of thousands of dollars on prostitutes while as attorney general he had aggressively prosecuted prostitution rings. He has since attempted media careers as a CNN, Current TV, and Spitzer-and-Kudlow co-host but has not returned to elected office.

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