CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, driven from office by a prostitution scandal, says it is up to government to enforce integrity and transparency in the financial markets.
Spitzer did not mention of his personal scandal during his lecture Thursday, sponsored by an ethics center at Harvard University.
He said when financial institutions chose between integrity and profits, they make the wrong choice. His speech focused on government response to the world financial crisis.
The faculty director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Lawrence Lessig, acknowledged Spitzer's personal scandal in his introduction, but called him " the most important living prosecutor on a wide range of corruption."
Since his resignation, Spitzer has worked in his father's real estate firm and taught political science at City College in New York.
