s office in 1986. one of eliot's early success stories was when he was working as a junior prosecutor, and he was tasked with trying to get the mob out of the garment districte gambino crime family dominated manhattan's garment district, where they forced clothing manufacturers to use their trucking company to transport goods to retailers. most prosecutors went after the mob by following a paper trail from behind a desk, but spitzer had a novel idea to start his own factory, hiring 30 workers and an undercover state trooper to run it and simply waiting for the mafia to come to them. it took several months, but eventually a salesman stopped by, threatening to break bones, literally. a very quick and swift message from the gambinos-- "either use our trucker, or somebody will be injured." [click] [recording playing] [click] spitzer always seemed to go beyond just the rigor of an investigation. he didn't wanna just read transcriptions. he wanted to listen to the wiretaps and hear how the mob guys talked. there was a visceral enjoyment of the subterranean nature of this. i played soccer, and this is a little-- -that's a tough, tough game. -well, we're not gettin