Corky, he has a lot of enemies on Wall Street, but of course he still paid for the hooker so he does deserve some credit here.

I don't think would have trotted his wife out and apologized yesterday if he was setup. I know I wouldn't.

"The federal investigation of a New York prostitution ring was triggered by Gov. Eliot Spitzer's suspicious money transfers, initially leading agents to believe Spitzer was hiding bribes, according to federal officials. It was only months later that the IRS and the FBI determined that Spitzer wasn't hiding bribes but payments to a company called QAT, what prosecutors say is a prostitution operation operating under the name of the Emperors Club. ...

The suspicious financial activity was initially reported by a bank to the IRS which, under direction from the Justice Department, brought in the FBI's Public Corruption Squad. "We had no interest at all in the prostitution ring until the thing with Spitzer led us to learn about it," said one Justice Department official."

Well, there is at least some confusion as to how this investigation came about, and the author of the article is quite familiar with political prosecutions.

If it WAS a set-up, Spitzer took the bait. Wholeheartedly, apparently.

btw, as the white Obama in the Dem party when he got elected, Spitzer would have been a logical target for Rethug JD dirty tricks.

That he has apparently alienated most people in NY doesn't help him any, though, with a "crime" that is normally never prosecuted.

Corky, the amount of the transfers is what really surprises me. I mean we are talking transfers of approximately $5k and the IRS is getting involved?

Yep, it smells a little tainted, this whole thing. They were looking for bribes? Why?

They were looking for bribes? Why?

Excellent question. What/who tipped them off?

I thought it had something to do with the Feds investigating the Escort Service for tax evasion. I might be wrong and maybe that was someones opinion from last nights talk shows...

I really do think that this in some way is big business and Wall Street's way of saying, "you fuck with us, we'll fuck you right back." This will deter any overzealous politician from going after big business because Wall Street will have your head if they feel like it.

Wis, no, you are right, that was the story only yesterday.

-Wall Street's way of saying, "you fuck with us, we'll fuck you right back."

Mmmmmm, could be!

We've seen what Bush's JD is capable of.

If any of us make a deposit of $10,000 it gets reported as a suspicious activity. Usually its nothing but sometimes things get uncovered. We have to send the reports of suspicious activity, potential money laundering, at my place of business all the time.
He got investigated becasue of who he is. A gov moving around that kind of money could be bad. Thankfully he was only hiding money from his wife and not something worse. The Gov wasnt looking for a sex scandel (at least I hope not). The sex isnt really the issue. Who cares he if like the strange, thats not the point. The bigger issue is support of illegal activity that is "usually" connected to organized crime. His activity could lead to puttin himself and his position into a compromised position. Blackmale? Who knows? The point is its not about the sex. Sex just makes it a interesting story to the unwashed masses.


Even if he was set up he still did the dead. Its always the ones that fight so hard against the activity that end up getting caught doing it.

Seems the pathetic fool set himself up for a fall.

Tax, he wouldn't have been 'fucked over' if he had kept his dick in his pants. It's all his fault.

-Even if he was set up he still did the dead.

Rob?

The "dead"? Wow, this was worse than I originally thought.

Bigjohn, see the first my first post on this thread.

Spud -- Governor Steamroller got rolled. If he hadn't been implicated in the act of the cardinal political sin of hypocrisy, he might be able to fend off the pressure to step aside. This doesn't look good. Perhaps a modern day Shakespeare or some modern day librettist will weave an opera or Broadway blockbuster around this tragedy.

the Democratic politician will now always be known as "Client-9

Truly.

This story was so all over the news yesterday that watching teevee was like listening to an old Beatles album.

Client number 9 *click* number 9 *click* number 9 *click* number 9...

Be Well.

Spud -- Governor Steamroller got rolled. If he hadn't been implicated in the act of the cardinal political sin of hypocrisy, he might be able to fend off the pressure to step aside.

~T&C

That seems to be the forming consenus, yes.

An average pol mighta gotten away with it but Elliot Ness, the Sherrif of Wall Street? The media luff to tumble guys like this from their high horsies when they fuck up.

This doesn't look good. Perhaps a modern day Shakespeare or some modern day librettist will weave an opera or Broadway blockbuster around this tragedy.

As long as it aint Andrew Lloyd Webber then Spud's cool with the idear.

Spud seriously loathes that guy beyond JCS.

Be Well.

During the Bush Administration, his Justice Department has opened 5.6 cases against Democrats for every one involving a Republican.

The Democratic Governor of New York has a shitty wife, and needed to get a hooker to fulfill some need of his, and that somehow is going to get twisted into Bush's fault?

Holy fuck you liberals are out of your minds...

This will deter any overzealous politician from going after big business because Wall Street will have your head if they feel like it.


How about you can be an overzealous politician and go after big business, but you don't fuck high priced hookers?

This will deter any overzealous politician from going after high priced whores because Wall Street will keep you from getting head if they feel like it.

I try to be Fair minded here but why is is a when a Dem is caught up in some shit He was "set up", but whenever a REP is caught up in some shit, He got caught and he DESERVED to get caught even if it WAS a set up? I'm not really left or right but it is a obvious discrepency even to a half blond one eyed Bat.

"Kristen" spoke with a Emperors Club booker, who said that she had been told that Client-9 "would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe



Shitty wife?

I hope old "Kristen" does an exclusive for NE.

How about you can be an overzealous politician and go after big business, but you don't fuck high priced hookers?

Excellent question. Which is worse, bilking investors and the American public out their money or porking high priced hookers?

Again, he is the one who put himself in this position, and it seems weird that he wouldn't think he would have people gunning for him as soon as he made one screw up.

Anyway, did anyone else see the Washington Post piece today that says Client # 9 liked some freaky deeky shiite?

Which is worse, bilking investors and the American public out their money or porking high priced hookers?


Obviously bilking investors... but if he hadn't screwed high priced hookers he's still be fighting the good fight.

This shouldn't deter politicians away from fighting for the average American and taking on "Big Business" if it is acting improperly... it should deter politictians from fucking high priced whores.

And it should embolden politicians wives to lick a ballsack every now and then to prevent the desire to seek whores.

I try to be Fair minded here but why is is a when a Dem is caught up in some shit He was "set up", but whenever a REP is caught up in some shit, He got caught and he DESERVED to get caught even if it WAS a set up?

Because its a Liberal Blog.

Welcome...

Set up? Yeah right, he just tripped and his dick somehow wound up inside a prostitute.

Million to one shot doc, million to one.

And it should embolden politicians wives to lick a ballsack every now and then to prevent the desire to seek whores.


Exactly!

If his wife performed 1 Rusty Trombone per week this wouldn't have happened.

If his wife performed 1 Rusty Trombone per week this wouldn't have happened.

Posted by JeffJ


nasty... but you've got the right idea... lmao

During the Bush Administration, his Justice Department has opened 5.6 cases against Democrats for every one involving a Republican.

Harpers again shows its advanced case of Bush Derangement Syndrome: Gov. Spitzer gets caught with a hooker before Valentine's day and Scott Horton does everything but scream "Bush's Fault!!!!"

Too funny.

btw, as the white Obama in the Dem party when he got elected, Spitzer would have been a logical target for Rethug JD dirty tricks.

----

Painting this guy as a victim is rather pathetic.

Spitzer's term as governor has been fraught with problems, including an unpopular plan to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and a plot by his aides to smear his main Republican nemesis.

-twisted into Bush's fault?


"The prosecution of Eliot Spitzer was managed with staffers from the Public Integrity Section at the Department of Justice, which is at the center of a major scandal concerning politically directed prosecutions.

During the Bush Administration, his Justice Department has opened 5.6 cases against Democrats for every one involving a Republican."


Just sayin'.

"During the Bush Administration, his Justice Department has opened 5.6 cases against Democrats for every one involving a Republican."

Regardless if Spitzer was set up or just caught by his own arrogance....still can one of you righties give me a fair explanation as to why there would be 5.6 cases against Dems for every one involving a Republican???
Surely you must have a logical explanation for this apparent bias in our Justice Dept.

Spitzer wasn't set up, cause he called the hookers, but I wonder if he'll try to sleaze out of this by claiming a "witch hunt" with the legality of the wire-taps.
Maybe he can go Republican and find Jayzuzz over the weekend or something. That'd silence the Right anyways.

Adios, Eliot. Dumfuck.

....still can one of you righties give me a fair explanation as to why there would be 5.6 cases against Dems for every one involving a Republican???


Atlantic City, Detroit, Washington DC, New Orleans....

5.6 to 1 how about a link

still can one of you righties give me a fair explanation as to why there would be 5.6 cases against Dems for every one involving a Republican???
Surely you must have a logical explanation for this apparent bias in our Justice Dept.

Posted by danni at 2008-03-11 02:19 PM

Maybe because the Dems are worse at covering up their corruption then the Reps? Or that they are easier to convict? These reasons are just as valid as some massive GOP lead conspiracy to turn Justice into its very own Star Chamber.

People tend to forget that Justice is a massive bureaucracy, and tends to move on its own inertia, regardless of who is in the WH. That's not to say that the senior AUSA's aren't pressured by the appointed USA's to do things their way, but anyone who has spent time working for the US Gov't knows that the rank and file bureaucrats don't pay too much attention to the political machinations going on above their pay grade. In fact, most of the AUSA's are more concerned about their conviction ratio, since that is what will get them the plum white collar gig with an AmLaw 100 firm upon leaving Justice.

Your Cheating Heart

Your cheatin' heart will make you weep
You'll cry and cry and try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you

When tears come down like fallin' rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk the floor the way I do
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you

Your cheatin' heart will pine some day
And crave the love you threw away
The time will come when you'll be blue
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you

When tears come down like fallin' rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk the floor the way I do
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you

-- Hank Williams

Spitzer goes down and the market jumps by 200 points....believe it or not......

1. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY): In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 and rightly so for blocking the release her official White House records. Many suspect these records contain a treasure trove of information related to her role in a number of serious Clinton-era scandals. Moreover, in March 2007, Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint against Senator Clinton for filing false financial disclosure forms with the U.S. Senate (again). And Hillary's top campaign contributor, Norman Hsu, was exposed as a felon and a fugitive from justice in 2007. Hsu pleaded guilt to one count of grand theft for defrauding investors as part of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.

2. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI): Conyers reportedly repeatedly violated the law and House ethics rules, forcing his staff to serve as his personal servants, babysitters, valets and campaign workers while on the government payroll. While the House Ethics Committee investigated these allegations in 2006, and substantiated a number of the accusations against Conyers, the committee blamed the staff and required additional administrative record-keeping and employee training. Judicial Watch obtained documentation in 2007 from a former Conyers staffer that sheds new light on the activities and conduct on the part of the Michigan congressman, which appear to be at a minimum inappropriate and likely unlawful. Judicial Watch called on the Attorney General in 2007 to investigate the matter.

3. Senator Larry Craig (R-ID): In one of the most shocking scandals of 2007, Senator Craig was caught by police attempting to solicit sex in a Minneapolis International Airport men's bathroom during the summer. Senator Craig reportedly "sent signals" to a police officer in an adjacent stall that he wanted to engage in sexual activity. When the police officer showed Craig his police identification under the bathroom stall divider and pointed toward the exit, the senator reportedly exclaimed 'No!'" When asked to produce identification, Craig presented police his U.S. Senate business card and said, "What do you think of that?" The power play didn't work. Craig was arrested, charged and entered a guilty plea. Despite enormous pressure from his Republican colleagues to resign from the Senate, Craig refused.

4. Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA): As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on military construction, Feinstein reviewed military construction government contracts, some of which were ultimately awarded to URS Corporation and Perini, companies then owned by Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum. While the Pentagon ultimately awards military contracts, there is a reason for the review process. The Senate's subcommittee on Military Construction's approval carries weight. Sen. Feinstein, therefore, likely had influence over the decision making process. Senator Feinstein also attempted to undermine ethics reform in 2007, arguing in favor of a perk that allows members of Congress to book multiple airline flights and then cancel them without financial penalty. Judicial Watch's investigation into this matter is ongoing.

Maybe because the Dems are worse at covering up their corruption then the Reps?

Given the steady stream of GOPpers going to the slammer, that'd be hard to do.

Spitzer goes down and the market jumps by 200 points....believe it or not......

A couple hundred billion in corporate welfare for the Banks didn't hurt either.

more...

5. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY): Giuliani came under fire in late 2007 after it was discovered the former New York mayor's office "billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons ... " ABC News also reported that Giuliani provided Nathan with a police vehicle and a city driver at taxpayer expense. All of this news came on the heels of the federal indictment on corruption charges of Giuliani's former Police Chief and business partner Bernard Kerik, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to accepting a $165,000 bribe in the form of renovations to his Bronx apartment from a construction company attempting to land city contracts.

6. Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR): Governor Huckabee enjoyed a meteoric rise in the polls in December 2007, which prompted a more thorough review of his ethics record. According to The Associated Press: "[Huckabee's] career has also been colored by 14 ethics complaints and a volley of questions about his integrity, ranging from his management of campaign cash to his use of a nonprofit organization to subsidize his income to his destruction of state computer files on his way out of the governor's office." And what was Governor Huckabee's response to these ethics allegations? Rather than cooperating with investigators, Huckabee sued the state ethics commission twice and attempted to shut the ethics process down.

7. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby: Libby, former Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000 for lying and obstructing the Valerie Plame CIA leak investigation. Libby was found guilty of four felonies -- two counts of perjury, one count of making false statements to the FBI and one count of obstructing justice all serious crimes. Unfortunately, Libby was largely let off the hook. In an appalling lack of judgment, President Bush issued "Executive Clemency" to Libby and commuted the sentence.

8. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL): A "Dishonorable Mention" last year, Senator Obama moves onto the "ten most wanted" list in 2007. In 2006, it was discovered that Obama was involved in a suspicious real estate deal with an indicted political fundraiser, Antoin "Tony" Rezko. In 2007, more reports surfaced of deeper and suspicious business and political connections It was reported that just two months after he joined the Senate, Obama purchased $50,000 worth of stock in speculative companies whose major investors were his biggest campaign contributors. One of the companies was a biotech concern that benefited from legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after the senator purchased $5,000 of the company's shares. Obama was also nabbed conducting campaign business in his Senate office, a violation of federal law.

How much of a hypocrite is he? It's not like he RAN a prostitution ring, after all.

Yeah, I'm being pretty light on the guy. I'm not his wife.

Anyway, I rest easy knowing that the banks and feds are watching us all so carefully that they even notice the wealthy forking over a few thou at a time over several years to apparently legitimate companies. It's a good thing they're checking out ALL those transactions ALL THE TIME so we can be sure no other rich guy is getting any on the side. Yeah, right.

Looks like the lefties have it figured out: It's his wife's fault

finally....

9. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who promised a new era of ethics enforcement in the House of Representatives, snuck a $25 million gift to her husband, Paul Pelosi, in a $15 billion Water Resources Development Act recently passed by Congress. The pet project involved renovating ports in Speaker Pelosi's home base of San Francisco. Pelosi just happens to own apartment buildings near the areas targeted for improvement, and will almost certainly experience a significant boost in property value as a result of Pelosi's earmark. Earlier in the year, Pelosi found herself in hot water for demanding access to a luxury Air Force jet to ferry the Speaker and her entourage back and forth from San Francisco non-stop, in unprecedented request which was wisely rejected by the Pentagon. And under Pelosi's leadership, the House ethics process remains essentially shut down which protects members in both parties from accountability.

10. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV): Over the last few years, Reid has been embroiled in a series of scandals that cast serious doubt on his credibility as a self-professed champion of government ethics, and 2007 was no different. According to The Los Angeles Times, over the last four years, Reid has used his influence in Washington to help a developer, Havey Whittemore, clear obstacles for a profitable real estate deal. As the project advanced, the Times reported, "Reid received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Whittemore." Whittemore also hired one of Reid's sons (Leif) as his personal lawyer and then promptly handed the junior Reid the responsibility of negotiating the real estate deal with federal officials. Leif Reid even called his father's office to talk about how to obtain the proper EPA permits, a clear conflict of interest.

Judicial Watch is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Judicial Watch neither supports nor opposes candidates for public office. For more information, visit www.judicialwatch.org.

December 19, 2007

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Crispee-

I'm pretty sure you have a point with these cut and pastes, but it isn't obvious...

A couple hundred billion in corporate welfare for the Banks didn't hurt either.

Posted by northguy3 at 2008-03-11 02:39 PM

Bingo.

Crispee-

I'm pretty sure you have a point with these cut and pastes, but it isn't obvious...

Posted by leftcoastlawyer at 2008-03-11 02:45 PM |

I thought the thread was about the ratio of Dems and Repubs? Obviously corruption has no party.

Look, if you're married you shouldn't engage hookers for sex. That being said, I think we all can agree that the so-called rich and powerful live by different rules than 96% of us shlubs. Spitzer was not set up. He was outed. Set up would imply that he didn't know what he was doing, and unfortunately it seems he knew only too well.

Crispee-

Gotcha.

ROC-

Having dealt with Justice you do have a point, but don't you think that an AUSA who is told by a political appointee to go after certain people isn't going to have to do as he or she is told?

I try to be Fair minded here but why is is a when a Dem is caught up in some shit He was "set up", but whenever a REP is caught up in some shit, He got caught and he DESERVED to get caught even if it WAS a set up?

The premise that Spitzer was set up is a little shaky. He didn't trip and fall into a $5,000 hooker accidentally. But the history of politician prosecutions under Bush's DOJ deserves scrutiny, especially with the travesty in Alabama. We can't allow partisans to prosecute the other side to gain electoral adbantage.

Set up? no. Felt up, seems so, and costly at that.

"has a shitty wife, and needed to get a hooker to fulfill some need of his"

Good Grief.
'nuf said.

Tax, he wouldn't have been 'fucked over' if he had kept his dick in his pants. It's all his fault.
Posted by bigjohn_1972

>Well put.
Remember the old saying "if you're gonna do the crime, be prepared to do the time."

Sadly, this doesn't apply to the higher-ups who are "above the law," although it should.

yes, let's play like spitzer didn't do a thing wrong.

it's all part of the vrc. because we all know leftards are NOT responsible for their own actions.

if this is the case, then i suppose every stinking declaration of probable cause, search warrant, continuation, etc., i've ever typed in my life were all for nought.

guess those criminal cases should just fall into the laps of investigators.

people gunning for him as soon as he made one screw up.


Tax...not ONE. It was more like a years worth of hooker and 15T bucks later.He was bucking the odds .

He didn't trip and fall into a $5,000 hooker accidentally
Rcade ...it sounds like they could not have charged him on the fed level...it was the arranging to have his hooker come over state lines that screwed him

Puns intended.

... it was the arranging to have his hooker come over state lines that screwed him

I'm so glad the federal government in 2008 is spending tax dollars keeping hookers from crossing state lines.

I'm so glad the federal government in 2008 is spending tax dollars keeping hookers from crossing state lines.

Posted by rcade

Yeah, good thing those undercover guys at the Minnesota airport restrooms are all volunteers.

America Deceived

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People not buying a book is not exactly being banned.

wisgood......you really zinged the godfather there....watch for some major dumps.....
RC....Im kidding.

but lets look at his past before you all start apologizing and sufar coating his CRIME.....
the man from aig..I think it was.....what was that guys name?
he did the same thing and spritzer threatened his whole company if he didnt resign.....anyone remember details of that incident?
anyway.....more proof that when its a rightwing scum the whole thing is a scandal and when its a leftist scum, its a 'tragedy' and the whole thing is a waste of our tax dollars.......are you people REALLY saying this or is it some sort of 'thing' you have......GEESH

How can it be entrapment. Did they give him the phone number and ask him to call it EIGHT TIMES?

What a lame excuse, headline is an oxymoron

Of course he was set up. He is a Democrat. He has been doing this for six years. So really it is nothing new. He is not hypocritical either. He already has shown he is anti-family.

As for all this knuckle dragging "if only his wife would have...." blame the wife crap. Even if it "just a Joke" its on par with racist jokes about black people. Maybe he should have married a girl who was into the same sexual stuff as him. He has urges and he knows what they are and if you cant be honest with your wife about sex, face it your not going to be very honest with ANYONE about ANYTHING. You better belive me that if my girlfriend blows me while we are dating she will blow me when we are married othwiese we aint gunna be married long.

All of it
All of it

Spitz seems to be guilty as charged-I can't stand hypocrites, especially of this magnitude. Damn!

And the investigation needs to be investigated.

Ugh-

Yes- I know politcs is a corrupt business
Yes- I'm a fan of politics/politically interested
Yet- This still P'd me off and disappointed me

Love Humanity Loathe the Humans

At last the war on terror is yielding positive results.

They are reporting that in the meeting he had with aids yesterday morning, his wife advised him not to make a hasty decision, and resign. Hell of an understanding woman...

Hang in there Spitzer - if Bush & Cheney won't Resign then you justly,have No Good Reason to either!!!

Amazing isn't it that the "powers than be" in america,especially the FBI,want to go after and eliminate Gov.Spitzer for his clandestine R&R love affairs but they won't go after the Bush Regime for its bloody reign of terro in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I hope though that Elliot Spitzer will follow the example of Bill Clinton and do exactly the same,that is - nothing! The main difference of course is that Spitzer,unlike Bill Clinton,immediately accepted the responsibility for what he's been accused of and Clinton of course was a total weasel!

Yeah, good thing those undercover guys at the Minnesota airport restrooms are all volunteers.

Nice shot.

But people have to use public restrooms, and sometimes parents and kids go in there. There's at least some public interest in employing the police to preserve a sex-free crapper.

Set UP????

Did you see the latest??????

"With pressure mounting on Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign over a call-girl scandal, investigators said Tuesday he was clearly a repeat customer who spent tens of thousands of dollars -- perhaps as much as $80,000 -- with the high-priced prostitution service over an extended period of time."

But people have to use public restrooms, and sometimes parents and kids go in there. There's at least some public interest in employing the police to preserve a sex-free crapper.

Posted by rcade

Agreed. (It was a joke) Craig is an ass for not realizing this....
All kidding aside, what in the name of God are these elceted oficials thinking? Both sides of the aisle.

Of course he was! Was he aware he was -- not until he was trapped. The fox doesn't only lose his leg, he loses his skin. Sadly.

They are reporting that in the meeting he had with aids yesterday morning, his wife advised him not to make a hasty decision, and resign. Hell of an understanding woman...

Posted by wisgod at 2008


I hope you are joking because she is just another member of the club. hillary, mcreavy and now spritzer.....all three women stand by thier man..and thats horseshit when it comes to the real world.......in the real world they would have cut thier dicks off and showed it to them at least figuratively.
and this is yet another plank in the complete abolishment of the NOW gang as surely they would call these women cowards for not being more than pawns in the political game to follow.
I believe most of your wives would have been in the lorena bobbit category.....am I right or wrong?

and just what message has she sent her daughters and daughters all over the country.....thats it okay if your husband is fucking whores and flying all over the place to do so as long as he is rich and a governor or maybe harrassing interns in the oval office.
and then hillary has the nerve to bitch when someone says that chelsea was pimped..hell her mother has been a pimp for blowjob for a long time.....OR is it the other way around.......hhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm
mmmmmm

Silda should have kicked his ass out of the press conference and taken questions from the reporters.

Maybe she still will--tomorrow-- when the bastard resigns.

The guy is self-loathing or something--addicted to sex or the possibility of getting caught--which happened.

And he didn't look like the face of a man who pays for hookers while putting other people in jail for the same crime. The whole facade was gone--except his smugness that he is actually thinking of trying to stay in office.

He didn't look or sound like he was sorry. What huberus.

He was screwing prostitutes for at least the last six years when his daughters were 11, 9 and 7. Really nice Daddy there.

He is not the caped crusader--he is the caped prick.

And his wife should boot his ass out--before he resigns or gets impeached.

Murphy

I just read in the paper that she has a law degree from harvard and is a nonprofit lawyer...surely she isnt dumb enough to pull a hillary and stand by her cheating man in order to fullfill some life long quest for power.
and again, what has she shown her 17,15, and 13 year old daughters?

Colbert just showed Spitzer tape when he was on his show the last time--DATE February 12th--

The day before he last got his whore--February 13th.

And that was the day before Valentines--where he likely took his wife out.

Six years plus of getting trapped and the gov't waited until now--when he pleged his SD to Hillary--

It's all a conspiracy to muck up the Dem Party nomination.

We'll see how many more SD get arrested!

Murphy

Enemies or not, if he spent $80,000 on prostitutes he has no one to blame but himself. Or as a friend of mine said when he heard that figure, "80,000 bucks? That's a lot of money so spend on ---."

80,000 bucks on prostitutes! Well, it was more fun than Vegas.

Hell for 80'000 bucks I could buy alot of DeWalt and Snap On shit. What a waste of good money.

Larry Mohr

If you bait the trap with pussy, you'll catch me every time.

~Pinche Mao

Too bad, Eliot.

You got caught.

Typical hypocrisy from the party of "Womyn's" rights and crusades against "exploitation".

"80,000 bucks? That's a lot of money so spend on ---."

~Gal Tuesday

To spend on sommat that rhymes with "bucks"?

80 Grand fer pussy? Sounds like Spitzer is the one who really got screwed here.

Lewis Black did a cool little segment on this topic ronight on TDS.

He made much of the fact that the Governor not only paid fer her train ride and cab fare and room service as well as his happy ending but he also paid fer her mini bar tab.

"4300 dollars for sex in understandable but 15 bucks for 8 almonds?! THAT'S OBSCENE!"

Gotta luff Back in Black.

LB's new series debuts tommorow.

Spud wishes him well.

Be Well.

/Okay, really gone now.
stage left.

$80,000 isn't all that much when you're stupid enough to pay $5,000 a whack, now is it?

while i don't agree with prostitution, it is a victimless crime - legalize it and bring those prices down!

spitzer thought he was above the law.

Hell for 80'000 bucks I could buy alot of DeWalt and Snap On shit. What a waste of good money.

Larry Mohr

Posted by LarryMohr at 2008-03-11 11:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

Billy Jean King is the new Snap On spokesperson.

Spitzer should resign. He's a Democrat. Democrats have higher standards than Republicans.

like clinton?

Wow...Wallstreet didn't take him down.

because of Spitzer banks run software that examine all transactions, he being a person of power is labeled a PEP in that software, Politically Exposed Person. So since he was a PEP, his transactions were scrutinized by the software more closely.

it wasn't the fact that he transfered 5k, it was how many times and in what time intervals he transfered 5k.

He was the person that led the way for this software, and thrust it upon us all....NO ONE "Got" him. His own arrogance got him. he got him.

everything isn't a conspiracy theory.

Ahhh, poor Spitzer! What a shame if he was set up. It seems pretty obvious that he did nothing wrong here. I mean, it's not like he played footsie with someone in a men's room.

The injustice of it all!

Rot in hell you power-hungry bastard!

So even when a Democrat breaks the law, one that he has vowed to uphold, it is a Republicans fault?

Typical spin that is embarrasing to fair minded libs. We have plenty of proud Democrats who obey the laws, we don't need to make excuses for those that do.

Someone who breaks criminal law is a criminal regardless of party affiliation. It all comes down to personal choice!

Ooops.

Should be we don't need to make excused for those that DO NOT.

Frankly, any lawyer who fails to realize:

- the present state of the gov't.'s ability to spy its citizens;

- what constitutes illegal transfers of money;

- what constitutes a violation of the Mann act (regardless of its traditional lack of enforcement)

and

- that most municipalities have some law proscribing punishment for the payment for sex...


has absolutely no business or right to hold a public office; either elected or appointed....


unfucking believable.....

btw.... this is a wakeup call for all persons in this country... if you are breaking the law and using the banking system and/or the communcations systems of this country to conduct that illegal interprise, you better not have any competitors or enemies in gov't. If you do there is no doubt you will be caught and either prosecuted or extorted.

The really scary aspect of this loss of privacy is that your activities only need to have the APPEREANCE OF ILLEGALITY to put your life and freedom in serious jeopardy. The ability of the gov't. to manipulate the "facts" in ANY criminal investigation (particularly in "terror" related cases) has never been greater because of the lack of judical review and the errosion of the 4th and 5th amendments in the last six years...

and if you think it is scary now...just wait for Real ID to kick in...

sleep well "my friends"

lol

Yes he was the news is reporting tonight.

It seems his penis has been implicated.

I heard on Air America that DOJ's Mukase gave permission to start wire tapping Spitzer last January, but I could find nothing to substantiate that through Google. Can anyone here provide a link or any kind of confirmation?

If you look at the long list of cases in which accusations of highly irregular financial conduct were lodged against Republican elected officials, you will discover that in each case the Bush Justice Department reacted by doing nothing. No review of payments and bank records. No questions. No investigators. No warrants for wiretaps. In each case, Bush's "Justice" Department concluded that there was insufficient grounds to launch an investigation. And in two of these cases there were extremely specific, well documented allegations -- not something as nebulous as a Suspicious Activity Report (which led to Spitzer's downfall).

Also significant: The case against Spitzer did not start with the report of a crime. Rather it probably started with a decision to look into Spitzer's financial dealings to see if any dirt could be spotted and then developed into something consequential. It was not the amount of money being transferred that triggered interest. What triggered not just interest but action was the person initiating the transfers, for he was a powerful Democratic governor who just might be, by this means, removed from office.

Several reports about this case have suggested that it is somehow routine for prosecutors to go through the financial records of public officials to look for evidence of corruption. But in the absence of specific grounds justifying the investigation (for instance, an informant complaining about a bribe), prosecutors have no such authority. Investigators in this case appear to have been investigating Spitzer in the hopes of finding something compromising. Nailing Spitzer had become a politically-based priority.

By contrast, in the case of Republican Congressman David Vitter, federal prosecutors had proceeded against a prostitution ring yet showed little interest in the customer list that included a former high-ranking Bush Administration official (Randall Tobias, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development) and a U.S. Senator (David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana). In fact, the prosecutors' conduct in the "D.C. Madam" case was remarkably deferential to the public figures involved. Vitter got a slap on the wrist and that was the end of it. So why the double standard when it's a Democrat that gets caught in the net?

The feds had built their case against the prostitution ring and were ready to make arrests, but it seems they held back in hopes they could get enough incriminating evidence to maximally slam Spitzer. They could have gone with the announcement about the prostitution ring back in January. But they didn't. They waited until they could get permission from Attorney General Mukase to tap Spitzer's phone calls they got that permission that same month, January, and then proceeded to get enough on Spitzer to end his service as governor.

Once the IRS discovered it had caught the New York governor in its web, it forwarded the case to the US Attorney General's Office, where it was pursued by the FBI, apparently on the instructions of AG Michael Mukasey.

The investigation moved from monitoring the bank to monitoring phones, and Spitzer was captured talking to the Emperor's Club dispatcher. Bingo. Promising Democratic political career ruined."

www.opednews.com/articles/
opedne_dave_lin_080311_spitzer
_bust_provide.htm

For all of Spitzer's hubris, this case provides a strong indication that Bush isn't trying to catch "terrorists" for one minute. What his White House is doing is compiling information and dirt that they can use to intimidate anyone who would challenge them. And they're devoting millions of dollars of willing and gullible taxpayers to carry off this grand larceny.