Several smaller telephone companies and the New York attorney general , Eliot Spitzer , persuaded a federal district judge in Washington to review the Justice Department 's approval of the mergers of AT&T and SBC , which closed last November , and Verizon and MCI , which closed in January .
Eliot Spitzer /business/person/company New York
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Eliot Spitzer
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