Meet the New Eliot Spitzer

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Chastened by his fall and energized by running a campaign on the fly, the former New York governor is trying on a more modest, self-deprecating version of himself. He tells Lloyd Grove about his brutal media grilling and whether he’s really out to get Wall Street.

Published Jul. 16 2013 12:43PM EDT

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“Tell Hank the next time he wants to serve me, he can do it himself,” Eliot Spitzer joked with a sheepishly grinning process server.

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It was late Monday afternoon on the 22nd floor of the Crown Building, the ornately gilded Fifth Avenue headquarters of the Spitzer Engineering real estate empire.

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Meet the New Eliot Spitzer

Chastened by his fall and energized by running a campaign on the fly, the former New York governor is trying on a more modest, self-deprecating version of himself. He tells Lloyd Grove about his brutal media grilling and whether he’s really out to get Wall Street.

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