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Dan Gillmor on Eliot Spitzer's investigation into Wall St (specifically Merrill Lynch, home of Henry Blodget) DotCom abuses in terms of analyst Conflict Of Interest. The affadavit, online in PDF, includes many quotes from internal correspondence, in particular a table on p13 comparing internal comments to the official rating: for GoToDotCom it says Nothing interesting about company "except banking fees" (ML03806).