ALL BUSINESS:Spitzer Gone,reforms Remain

"Because of what has happened to Spitzer now, people have begun to question all the reforms that he put into place, and they shouldn't," said Charles Elson, director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at University of Delaware. "No matter who the messenger was regarding reform, the message was right."

Whatever happened in the Mayflower Hotel on Feb. 13, it doesn't alter that plenty of people on Wall Street were cheating, and that Spitzer helped clean things up.

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Rachel Beck is the national business columnist for The Associated Press. Write to her at rbeck(at)ap.org