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...Staff writer Elyssa A.L. Spitzer can be reached spitzer@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Elyssa A.L. Spitzer can be reached at spitzer@fas.harvard.edu...
...spent several years as an analyst on Wall Street, watching Spitzer's crusades against corrupt stock research and rigged IPOs play out around me, defending his actions to colleagues who ranted that he was motivated only by political ambition. To learn that Spitzer was the world's biggest hypocrite, that he'd thrown it all away to frequent prostitutes, was devastating, a lapse that could never be forgiven. (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...Suddenly, a young man approached him. "Excuse me, sir, will you autograph this?" he asked, holding out his receipt. "My name is Ed." Spitzer signed the receipt and handed it back to him. "I've learned that there is no privacy anymore," he said, sighing. "It's funny. I went from being nobody when I was elected attorney general to then becoming, in a very twisted way, a celebrity." He went on to note that everything that is good and bad about him is now visible for the entire world to see and discuss - his own reality-TV show indeed...
...Spitzer finished his drink and gathered his coat. "At some point I may go back to a more private world, but it just hasn't happened," he said. With that, he went out into the snow to make his way home...