Eliot Spitzer Among Victims of Madoff

Eliot Spitzer’s family real estate firm was one of many Jewish businesses fleeced by Bernard Madoff, the disgraced governor confirmed at the recent Slate holiday mixer. Spitzer said he hadn’t met Madoff personally and wasn’t into “the Palm Beach scene.” One journalist joked that Madoff “was worse for the Jews than anyone since David Berkowitz.” Spitzer replied, “Well, I was New York’s second Jewish governor, and look what I did.” (More Bernard Madoff stories.)