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.

External links

Official Sites

• Eliot Spitzer 2006 - Official gubernatorial campaign website
• Office of NYS Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Biographies & Profiles

• "Eliot Spitzer - How New York's attorney general became the most powerful man on Wall Street" - Profile by Daniel Gross from Slates "Assessment" column, October 21, 2004
• "TIME Crusader of the Year 2002: Eliot Spitzer" - Profile of Eliot Spitzer by Adi Ignatius from the December 21, 2002 issue of Time Magazine, reprinted by Spitzer's campaign site.

Interviews

• Frontline: The Wall Street Fix - from the PBS-series Frontline, dated April 16, 2003.
• NOW with Bill Moyers: New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer - Streaming video and transcripts of Spitzer's multiple interviews on the PBS series Now With Bill Moyers.
• "The Pollution Buster" - Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert in Fall 2004 issue of OnEarth Magazine, publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Media Coverage

• "Corruption probe hits US insurers" - BBC coverage of Spitzer's probe of insurance industry practices, October 15, 2004.
• "Spitzer targets music companies" - BBC coverage of Spitzer's prosecution of payola, October 22, 2004

Critics

• Attorney General Watch - blog of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, critical of Eliot Spitzer and other state attorneys general.
• "Not Spitzer's Job" - article by Alan Reynolds, senior fellow of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank. Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal
• "The unintended economic consequences of Spitzer" - Commentary by Mark Gilbert in The Royal Gazette of Bermuda (originally published by Bloomberg News)