Eliot SpitzerSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Before taking on organized crime and corruption as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, he worked at numerous private companies and clerked for Federal District Judge Robert W. Sweet. He successfully prosecuted numerous top members of the high-profile Gambino criminal family while in this post.

Protecting Capitalism Case by Case, a first-hand description of Spitzer's most notable cases as Attorney General was published in 2013. Spitzer ruled New York State as Attorney General from 1998 to 2006, gaining the moniker "Sheriff of Wall Street" and creating new standards in financial fraud, environmental protection, and civil rights enforcement.

He was named TIME's "Crusader of the Year" in 2002 and the Financial Times' "Person of the Year" in 2004. In 2007, he ran for Governor of New York and won. Spitzer studied at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs after attending the Horace Mann School.

Later, he worked under renowned legal professor Alan Dershowitz and served as Editor of Harvard Law School's Harvard Law Review. Spitzer, who has previously been on CNN's In the Arena, also works as an adjunct professor of Political Science at the City University of New York and helps run the family real estate firm.

His first book, Government's Place in the Market, published in 2011, examines how and when the government should intervene in market concerns. Spitzer's meticulous essay proposes strategic approaches for the US government and industry to coexist while bringing about change for the global economy and the public good.

“This tract restores Spitzer to his original image on the political stage as a scourge of Wall Street,” according to Booklist.