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Blodget to Spitzer: Payback's a bitch!

By Nicholas Carlson, 4:20 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008, 1,753 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Back in 2002, Eliot Spitzer, then New York's attorney general, published internal emails from Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget . Blodget was shown trashing stocks he had publicly touted. The SEC charged Blodget with fraud and eventually banned him from the securities industry for life. Now Blodget edits Silicon Alley Insider. Look who's publishing now.

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