The biggest whistle blower of all had to resign in shame. Eliot Laurence Spitzer,

son of a real estate tycoon Bernard Spitzer, had a very distinguished career. A graduate of the Harvard University he worked for the Manhattan district attorney’s office earlier in his career. Thereafter there was no looking back. In the 1998 he was elected as New York State Attorney General. He pursued cases against companies involved in computer chip price fixing, investment bank stock price inflation, and the 2003 mutual fund scandal. He also sued Richard Grasso, the former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, for failing to inform the board of directors of his deferred compensation package, which exceeded $140 million. In 2006, Spitzer was elected governor of New York after defeating Republican John Faso in the November election. On March 10, 2008, The New York Times reported that Spitzer had been a client of a prostitution service called Emperors Club VIP. He had met a $1,000 an hour call  girl called Ashley Alexandra Dupré. He was alleged to have spent over $80,000 for prostitutes over a period of several years while he was Attorney General. Spitzer resigned from office in March 2008.