Contemplate the fall from grace of superstar analyst Jack Grubman of Salomon Smith Barney or the rise of just elected New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

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Contemplate the fall from grace of superstar analyst Jack Grubman of Salomon Smith Barney or the rise of just-elected New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

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Mr. Bharara's predecessors and others, of course, have had plenty of other ethical misdeeds to occupy their agendas, especially in Albany, where three of the last five state Senate majority leaders, including Mr. Smith, have been indicted, and where a former governor, Eliot Spitzer, was felled by a scandal involving a prostitution ring.

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It was in 2005 that Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued both AIG and recently departed CEO Hank Greenberg and his CFO, Howard Smith, charging reinsurance fraud among other things.

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