NY prosecutor wins big with Spitzer investigation

“It wasn't something I thought we had focused on or had a lot of resources on”

Michael Garcia's predecessors as U.S. attorney in Manhattan took on all five mob families, the titans of Wall Street, Osama bin Laden and even Martha Stewart. So it was largely unnoticed when Garcia wanted to attack public corruption.

Then his public corruption unit investigated a prostitution ring that took down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

In an interview last week, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York declined to comment on the investigation. That's not surprising since his office must decide whether to bring criminal charges against Spitzer, identified in court papers only as Client No. 9. Read more

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