While declining to comment specifically on Spitzer's cases, Stanley Sporkin, a former federal judge who headed enforcement at the SEC in the 1970s, says, "It's illegal and improper to say that you're going to be prosecuted unless you do a-b-c on the civil side".
And whom would she hire as head of enforcement?
He recently hired a former United States prosecutor as his new head of enforcement.
He also hired a former federal prosecutor, David Meister, as the head of enforcement.
The job of head of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission is now open.
He moved to Washington as general counsel in 1996 and became head of enforcement in 1998.
"We think we can do both, and do both well," said J. P. Suarez, the head of enforcement.
They had also been shot in the head, law enforcement officials said.
Steve Eckersley, head of enforcement at the ICO, described the revelations as "very worrying indeed".
The commissioner's head of enforcement, Stephen Eckersley, said: "This company lacked integrity.
