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TIL Before federal wiretapping caught Eliot Spitzer in a prostitution scandal in early 2008, he had nearly exposed the lending practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis when he was Attorney General of New York. He was also known as the “sheriff of Wall Street” at the time.

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