Spitzer v. Grasso v. Langone

Newsweek, December, 2004 by Charles Gasparino

Several weeks ago, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer ran into Wall Street financier and former New York Stock Exchange director Kenneth Langone at a black-tie dinner and attempted to set the record straight. For months Langone has been on a rampage against Spitzer, calling the civil suit that blames Langone for former NYSE chairman Dick Grasso's enormous pay package nothing more than a ploy to create headlines as Spitzer plans his 2006 gubernatorial bid. Spitzer, at one point, said he wanted to put a "stake" through Langone's heart.

Now Spitzer wanted Langone to know he wasn't such a bad guy. "You know," he told Langone, according to people close to both men, "we have mutual friends who say in another life you and I would be friends." But Langone wasn't ready...

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