Who’s Next?

Eliot Spitzer says he’s not finished with the hedge fund industry. Meanwhile, the SEC’s efforts to more closely regulate it might be losing steam. Plus: A Q&A with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer is not done with hedge funds.

Since fining Canary Capital Partners $40 million and filing felony charges against former Millennium Partners trader Steven Markovitz for alleged illegal trading of mutual fund shares, the aggressive New York State attorney general has shifted his focus from punishing hedge funds that may have engaged in similar activities to an all-out assault on the $7 trillion mutual fund industry.

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