Eliot Spitzer , the New York attorney general , sued the executive , Clark E. McLeod , and four other high-profile telecommunications executives in 2002 , contending that they had steered investment banking business to Salomon Smith Barney in exchange for inflated ratings on their companies ' stocks and hot new shares of other companies .
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