Client 9: the Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
"All I ask for is an unfair advantage.” Reputedly a favourite line of Hank Greenberg, the former Chair and CEO of AIG, it makes for an apposite tagline for a leader forced to resign by his own board as a result of investigations into financial impropiety. The Greenberg investigations were instigated by then New York Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, who made a habit of making enemies amongst the city's most powerful corporate leaders during his uncompromising campaign to prosecute corporate misconduct. And as writer and director Alex Gibney argues in Client 9: the Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer it was the foes he created in his day job as much as the night time friends he sought among the high class escort world that ultimately brought him down. Gibney, the oscar winning documentary maker of Taxi to the Dark Side , Casino Jack , and Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room , is no stranger to the twilight morality of big business, and the powerplays of American politics. In C...