Not only has his popularity generally diminished, but Eliot Spitzer's crime-fighting image and the number of executives who shiver at the mention of his name have dramatically decreased, too, according to a report from Reuters.
The
But in the wake of unsuccessful and highly-publicized bid to put former
Most recently, Ken Langone, the former chairman of the
"There is a pattern: everything that goes to trial, and ends up in court, he loses," said Michael Grave, a Spitzer critic and political scientist at the
But Lawrence White, a professor of economics at
"Is he looking a little more tarnished than [he did] a year ago? Yes. But is he seriously weakened? I don't think so," White said.
Companies and individuals are seizing the day. Most notably, asset management firm
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