Earlier today, NPR interviewed the filmmaker behind Client 9/. Everyone should see this film to get a taste of reality. This was clearly a hit job on the one person who might have made a difference on wall street, only he was going after them, not helping them. Spitzer is interviewed extensively in the film, and admits to his indiscretions openly. The interesting parts of the film are the money men who had a reason to take him down. Keep an eye on the names people, the names... and, keep an eye out for them in the future. Look up the Mann Act. Typically reserved for illegal human trafficking, the government somehow found Spitzer a likely target...
An excerpt from NPR.org:
"Known as the "The Sheriff of Wall Street" when he was New York's attorney general, Eliot Spitzer aimed his fire at some of America's largest financial institutions and their most powerful executives in the country.
"At the height of his power, he was the one-man wrecking crew," says Alex Gibney, director of the new documentary Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. "He took the job of attorney general, which very often would go after crooked car dealers, and turned it into a national phenomenon; somebody who was trying to legislate."
Spitzer's roster of business targets included Richard Grasso, onetime head of the New York Stock Exchange; Ken Langone, once an NYSE director; and Hank Greenberg, CEO of AIG.
Eliot Spitzer made a lot of enemies."
Rent it people, rent it... now.
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