Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Alex Gibney
• Cast(s): Eliot Spitzer, Bill Clinton, Stephen Colbert, John Kerry, Monica Lewinsky See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 57min
• Music: Peter Nashel
• Award(s): Emmy 2011 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: Frank Capra: Mr. America, WOMB: Women of My Billion
• Story:
  This documentary feature takes an in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Nicknamed "The Sheriff of Wall Street," when he was NY's Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer prosecuted crimes by America’s largest financial institutions and some of the most powerful executives in the country. After his election as Governor, with the largest margin in the state's history, many believed Spitzer was on his way to becoming the nation's first Jewish President. Then, shockingly, Spitzer’s meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when the New York Times revealed that Spitzer - the paragon of rectitude - had been caught seeing prostitutes.
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