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Spitzer’s Wife Joins Hedge Fund Metropolitan Capital

The wife of former New York Gov. (and Sheriff of Wall Street) Eliot Spitzer is going to work on Wall Street.

Silda Wall Spitzer, who endured the humiliation of her husband’s resignation amidst a prostitution scandal in March, has joined hedge fund Metropolitan Capital Advisors (which is technically on Madison Avenue), New York Magazine reports. The $300 million firm is run by CNBC personality Karen Finerman, whose husband, Lawrence Golub, is a longtime friend of Eliot Spitzer and contributor to his campaigns.

Silda Spitzer will help “recruit new investors” in her new job, which she started last month.

Silda Spitzer was a corporate lawyer at Chase Manhattan Bank’s international legal group and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom before her husband first ran for New York attorney general in 1994.

He didn’t win that time, but was elected in 1998, only to build a reputation as the scourge of hedge funds and other financial players with his aggressive prosecution of Wall Street malfeasance. He was elected governor two years ago, but was forced to resign after it emerged that he had regularly enjoyed the company of prostitutes.


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