Harrison J. Goldin

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Harrison Jay Goldin (born February 23, 1936 in the Bronx, New York City) is a lawyer and New York politician. He served as New York City Comptroller from 1974 to 1989. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1966 to 1973 and ran in the 1989 Democratic Primary election for Mayor of New York.[1] During the Kennedy Administration, Goldin was an attorney in the United States Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights.

After leaving public office in 1989, he opened Goldin Associates, a financial advisory and turnaround consulting firm. Notable cases have included Drexel Burnham Lambert, Rockefeller Center, Enron and Refco.

He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1953 and received an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1957 (Phi Beta Kappa) and an LL.B. from Yale Law School, where he was articles editor of the Yale Law Journal.

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