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I'm Lindsey Graham, and this is American Scandal.

Today, we wrap up our series on corruption in the state capital of Albany, New York.

We started the series with the rise and fall of former New York Attorney General and Governor, Elliott Spitzer.

His very public demise made national headlines and was also the subject several years later of the docking in New York.

Today, we wrap up our series on corruption in the state capital of Albany, New York.

The rise and fall of Elliott Spitzer was also the subject several years later of the documentary, Client 9, The Rise and Fall of Elliott Spitzer.

In 2018, I spoke about that film with its Oscar-winning director, Alex Gibney, and the course of making the film, Gibney interviewed Elliott Spitzer himself and many of his enemies, providing a much richer understanding of the scandal and of the corrosive effects of power, especially in Albany.

In addition to Gibney's multiple Emmys, a Grammy, several Peabody Awards and more, he is also won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007 for the film Taxi to the Dark Side, which he wrote and directed.

He's the president and founder of Jigsaw Productions and has been named by the New York Times and Esquire Magazine as the most important and prolific documentarian of our time.

Alex Gibney joins us from Jigsaw Studio in New York City.

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Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin, a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable.

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Alex Gibney, thank you for joining me on this interview episode of American Scandal.

Thank you, Lindsey, good to be here.

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