Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959 in Bronx, New York) is the current Attorney General for New York State and a candidate for the 2006 Democratic nomination for Governor of New York.

Background

Spitzer was born and raised in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, by observant Austrian Jewish parents (although he is reportedly secular). He is a graduate of Horace Mann School. He attended Princeton University and was elected chairman of the undergraduate student government, graduating in 1981. He then went to Harvard Law School, where he joined the Harvard Law Review and became an editor. At Harvard Law, he met and married Silda Wall. They have three daughters.

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Riverdale - Austria - Jewish - Secular - Horace Mann School - Princeton University - 1981 - Harvard Law School - Harvard Law Review - Silda Wall

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Upon receiving his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree, Spitzer clerked for Judge Robert W. Sweet in Manhattan, then joined the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He stayed there for less than two years before leaving to join the Manhattan district attorney's office.

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Juris Doctor - Judge - Manhattan - Law firm - Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison - District attorney

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Spitzer joined the staff of Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, where he spent six years pursuing organized crime. His biggest case came in 1992, when Spitzer led the investigation that ended the Gambino organized crime family's control of Manhattan's trucking and garment industry. Spitzer left the DA's office in 1992 to join the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he worked until 1998.

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Robert M. Morgenthau - Organized crime - 1992 - Gambino - Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom - 1998

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