Bernard Spitzer [SEP] cause of death
least $140,000 to organizations led by political allies.
Bernard Spitzer died on November 1, 2014, from Parkinson's disease at the age of 90. As of 2008, he had an estimated net worth of $500 million. He left each of his three children $50 million and donated $250 million to the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable trust.
series of high-profile public corruption cases," including the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, where he declined to prosecute Spitzer for violating the Mann Act, and the prosecution of several state politicians and city officials, such as former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and Democratic political fundraiser Norman Hsu.
In the international domain, his office "successfully prosecuted corruption cases stemming from the United Nations oil-for-food scandal." Garcia also led the prosecution of the Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, known as the "Merchant of Death