Spitzer: Out of Public Office, But Still Feisty

The NY Times checked in on former governor Eliot Spitzer six months after his resignation from office. Though remorseful about what he's put his family through, he's still got some spark. Apparently an August Times article, featuring his successor David Paterson's critical thoughts on Spitzer's reign, prompted him to call a Paterson aide and demand a public apology, allegedly "issu[ing] threats, veiled and unveiled." Spitzer is working for his father's real estate business; when recently asked him how he was doing and he responded "with resignation and a degree of joylessness: 'Making money is making money.'" (A friend said, "I think that he’ll sort of be in a holding pattern... while the legal stuff gets sorted out. It may take years for it to get fully sorted out.”) Spitzer also said, "I've made my sins and I've paid for them."

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By Jen Chung in News on September 28, 2008 5:42 PM

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Karen

Awwwww....how could you not love a face like that?

Felix Hoenikker

Of course he was ratted out, having made many connected enemies.

It would be worth the citizen's dime to pay for his hookers if he had kept up the fight.

smacky

Spitzer was the f'n MAN. It's a shame our country (among other things) concentrates on infidlity as something wrong. Being human. Its tough.

David McCaffredy

I agree. He would be a difference-maker in this crisis. I wonder who has the balls (pun definitely intended) to hire him in an advisory role.

ides_of_march

If only Spitzer had been able to stay clear of the hookers, he might have been able to clean up Wall St. I wonder if it wasn't Wall St that ratted him out to the media to get him out of the way. The whole Bear Stearns thing hit the fan right after Spitzer resigned. Coincidence?