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Reason October 2002 Jacob Sullum	Taxing Smokes By equating zero revenue with zero smoking, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg implies that New Yorkers who refuse to pay the highest cigarette taxes in the country -- $3.39 perpack -- will have no choice but to quit. In the real world, however, smokers have alternatives.
BusinessWeek April 8, 2010 Nanette Byrnes	How Altria Is Winnowing Out Fake Marlboros The tobacco giant's private cops are going to new lengths to stop contraband smokes.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2006 Halah Touryalai	Out with a Bang Eliot Spitzer may have less than a month left as New York State's attorney general, but the governor elect says there two new Wall Street cases he's taking on before year's end.
Reason May 2003 Jacob Sullum	Nicotine Fights "Increasing the cigarette tax saves lives," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared last year while pushing a 19-fold increase in the city's levy. To the contrary, suggests a recent report from the Cato Institute: Increasing the cigarette tax can be deadly.
The Motley Fool August 5, 2004 Tim Beyers	Will Lawsuit Hurt Express Scripts? Although investors seem to be over the initial jitters arising from Express Scripts' problems, the stock is still down more than 12% since New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit accusing the pharmacy benefits manager of fraud.
InternetNews March 18, 2005 Roy Mark	Payments to Cigarette Sites Up in Smoke Federal efforts to snuff out illegal online cigarette sales got a boost Thursday when major credit card companies agreed to refuse payment to Internet tobacco sites, almost all of which are violating one federal law or another.
The Motley Fool July 21, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer	Should You Be Sweating About Altria's Second Quarter? Investors weren't happy with Altria's second-quarter earnings report, but there's really not much to worry about.
InternetNews January 29, 2004 Roy Mark	House Panel Approves 'Net Tobacco Bill Native Americans contend that the unique nature of the bill's sales tax collection would do away with tribal immunity from state laws.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2004 Alyce Lomax	R.J. Reynolds's Bummin' Smokes Discount cigarettes smoked out RJR's fourth quarter.
Registered Rep. September 25, 2002 Rick Weinberg	NY Attorney General: I Could Have Nailed Merrill on More Serious Charges Eliot Spitzer said he could have pursued criminal charges against Merrill Lynch for its conflicts of interest in its research, but that he didn't want to "destroy" the firm or Wall Street.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2006 Kevin Burke	Spitzer Hints Scandal Is Winding Down While Spitzer remains tight-lipped on the status of the industrywide trading investigation he launched in September 2003, he hinted that it is perhaps nearing the finish line.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2004 Bill Mann	When in Doubt, Decapitate Eliot Spitzer announced that the State of New York would not pursue criminal charges against disgraced insurance broker Marsh & McLennan after it promised reforms and accepted the resignation of its CEO, replacing him with a former Manhattan prosecutor.
InternetNews March 9, 2004 Ryan Naraine	PayPal Slapped with $150K Fine PayPal's user agreement misrepresented the protections consumers enjoyed when an affiliated merchant failed to deliver merchandise.
The Motley Fool March 20, 2007 Selena Maranjian	Cigarette Taxes Can Burn You Take your tax obligations seriously when ordering goodies online. Ordering smokes online cost one man $8,000 in taxes.
The Motley Fool April 6, 2004 Seth Jayson	Altria, EU Make Nice To end a cigarette-smuggling dispute, Altria will pay up, and the European Union will shut up. The EU claims PMI oversupplied countries with low taxes so that the cigarettes could be transferred, illegally, to other countries with higher sin tariffs.
The Motley Fool November 16, 2006 Mary Dalrymple	Money Up in Smoke A bad habit can be a big financial drain. Take a look and see what happens if you invest $4.36 every day instead of buying cigarettes.
Salon.com January 16, 2003 Arianna Huffington	Cold feet Eliot Spitzer caved to Wall Street criminals. Maybe he decided that taking on the most powerful people in the country might not be the best strategy for a man considering a run for governor.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	A White Knight For Mutual-Fund Investors No mutual-fund executive wants to get a phone call from Eliot Spitzer these days.
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Aki Ito	Japan Enjoys a Nicotine Buzz The Japanese hoard cigarettes ahead of a major tobacco tax increase -- and that may add as much as 1.4 percentage points to third-quarter GDP growth.
Registered Rep. June 10, 2008	Would You Invest With Client No. 9? Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former New York State governor once heralded as Sheriff of Wall Street, is mulling launching a distressed real estate fund.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2004 Paul Elliott	Call That Strong Medicine? Richard Strong and Strong Capital Management settle with Spitzer over market timing of the Strong funds. Was the penalty harsh enough?
The Motley Fool February 1, 2006 Nathan Parmelee	Altria: Still Smokin' Altria is still cruising along, but growth is a mixed bag. Investors, take note.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2008	Spitzenfreude Some on Wall Street think that Eliot Spitzer had it coming.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Colleen Paulson	Altria's Stayin' Alive Altria delivers EPS growth in spite of a decline in cigarette volume.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Anand Chokkavelu	Today's Buy Opportunity: Altria Why today's "11 O'Clock Stock" is sin stock Altria.
Registered Rep. May 29, 2007 Kristen French	Spitzer Forms Panel to Clean up NY Regulation Governor Eliot Spitzer is forming a panel to streamline regulations and make New York more competitive with London, but without sacrificing investor protection.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2011 Colleen Paulson	Hazy Days Ahead for Altria? Altria's first quarter combines earnings growth with market share decline.
BusinessWeek August 21, 2006 Michael Orey	Lots Of Evidence, No Verdict Invaluable reformer or prosecutor run amok? The author lets the reader decide.
Registered Rep. March 12, 2008 Kristen French	Advisors: No Love Lost On Spitzer Eliot Spitzer, who's dramatic demise over the past few days has been covered backwards and forwards by every media outlet in the country, is not getting a lot of sympathy from the financial community.
Registered Rep. September 9, 2005 Stan Luxenberg	Imagine 50 Eliot Spitzers When are mutual fund companies charging too much in advisory fees? What constitutes proper disclosure of revenue sharing? And which governmental authority has jurisdiction over these issues?
Registered Rep. December 1, 2004 Erin Schulte	Buying Insurance Eliot Spitzer has gone on the warpath again, this time against insurance companies, leaving their stocks wounded --- some critically --- along the trail.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2011 Shubh Datta	A Smoky Outlook for Lorillard Q2 results were respectable, but the next quarter could be weaker for cigarette maker Lorillard.
BusinessWeek May 6, 2010 Julian Sancton	An Office Suitable for Smoking It's "smoke 'em if you got 'em" at Philip Morris.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2008 Selena Maranjian	How to Get Rich in Manhattan Giving up cigarettes can make you rich. Why let a comfy retirement go up in smoke?
InternetNews April 28, 2005 Tim Gray	New York Sues Internet Marketing Firm New York's Attorney General alleges that California's Intermix Media is installing spyware on PCs.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Anand Chokkavelu	Why We're Buying Altria Due to smoking bans and health consciousness, cigarette usage in the U.S. is on the way down at a rate of 3%-4% a year.
Inc. May 2005 Stephanie Clifford	Spitzer Probes Raise Fears of Employer Liability What New York state attorney general Eliot Spitzer's investigations mean for small businesses with regard to benefits administration.
BusinessWeek September 2, 2010	Hard Choices: Joe Plumeri The chairman and CEO of insurance brokerage giant Willis Group on shunning contingent commissions and forgoing millions
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 John Churchill	Market-Timer Banned and Fined Theodore Sihpol III, a former broker at Banc of America Securities (BAS), and poster boy for the market-timing scandals -- and the first target of Spitzer to say no to a plea offer -- has settled with the SEC.
U.S. Banker July 2002 Michael Dumiak	Street Smart! Eliot Spitzer snuck up on Wall Street and became a force for financiers to reckon with. And he's just getting started.
Registered Rep. October 13, 2005 John Churchill	Market-Timer Banned and Fined Theodore Sihpol III, the former broker at Banc of America Securities (BAS) and poster boy for the market-timing scandals, agreed to pay a $200,000 fine and to accept a five-year ban from the securities industry.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2009 Rick Steier	Altria: The Healthiest Stock Addiction Altria is a "forever hold" stock.
The Motley Fool July 2, 2010 Colleen Paulson	Government Snuffs Marlboro's Lights FDA's moves to control cigarette labeling and packaging take a bite.
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Suzanne Woolley	Insurance: Take A Good, Hard Look Here's how the Spitzer investigations of the industry could affect you and how to handle insurance-related issues.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2004 Rich Smith	Spitzer for Governor? Crusading prosecutor takes aim at New York's governor's mansion.
InternetNews November 14, 2007 Kenneth Corbin	New York's About-Face on E-Commerce Taxation New York governor rescinds new a policy that could have meant the end of the tax-free Internet consumers have come to know and love.
Registered Rep. June 3, 2003 Will Leitch	Brokerage Chiefs in Spitzer's Sights When New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the $1.4 billion settlement of the securities conflict of interest case in April, his office warned that it was "the beginning, not the end." Wirehouses are finding out, in a big way, that he wasn't kidding.
The Motley Fool October 26, 2004 Rich Duprey	Aon Mired in Marsh World's second-largest insurance broker accused of improper business practices.
InternetNews March 23, 2006 David Miller	N.Y. AG Takes on Privacy Fight With Gratis New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has filed suit against Web site operator Gratis Internet over personal information.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2004 Rich Smith	Jos. A. Bank's (Law) Suit New York's attorney general orders the company to change its advertising strategy. Does this mean anything to investors?