Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Laurence Spitzeris an American politician who served as the 54th Governor of New York from 2007 until his resignation on March 17, 2008. Following his eight year term as Attorney General of New York, Spitzer was elected governor in 2006, succeeding three-term incumbent George Pataki. Soon after taking office, Spitzer was embroiled in a prostitution scandal that culminated in his resignation. Following his resignation, he hosted a short-lived program, Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer on Current TV...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 June 1959
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Every time we turn over a rock in the mutual fund industry these days, we are seeing vermin crawl out that are appalling: Late trading; timing by those in the executive boardroom; billions of dollars being scraped off that should be going into the pockets of investors instead ending up in the hands of the executives,
Federated worked with regulators to address problems with improper trading, ... With this agreement, virtually the entire mutual fund industry has now sworn off improper trading practices and agreed to compensate investors who were harmed.
Mutual funds, who have a fiduciary duty to shareholders, who have made the representation that they will do what's reasonable to stop these trades, and then they take payments for allowing these trades to take place -- they're in deep trouble,
Millennium developed multiple schemes that cost mutual fund investors tens of millions of dollars.
With this agreement, virtually the entire mutual fund industry has now sworn off improper trading practices and agreed to compensate investors who were harmed,
My office, while committed to working with the Securities and Exchange Commission in our investigation of the mutual fund industry, will not be party to settlements that fail to protect the interests of investors and let the industry off with little more than a slap on the wrist,
What we have is a fundamental violation of the rights of shareholders and a violation of the duty of mutual funds to protect the interests of long-term shareholders,
The best advice for New Yorkers and donors everywhere is to direct their donations only to organizations that they know and trust,
The agreement we have today is the first of its kind, ... We think this is an agreement that can be a template for others to use.
These two officials basically had one job to do and that was to ensure that the weight of the jockeys was recorded accurately and then disclosed to bettors, ... Instead, they misled the public and compromised the integrity of races run by NYRA.
I hope to continue the great tradition that you have created for us in this state of leadership in Albany.
New York needs open access to emergency contraception.
Not a word has come out of the White House about maybe there being a structural problem in the insurance industry,
As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.