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Eliot Spitzer, Mr Law & Order
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Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring
I'm still waiting for the announcement from him, but it looks like any national ambitions he had are now dead.
Who saw this coming? As disappointing as this is, I can't help but find it amusing.NY Times wrote:Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning.
Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He is set to make an announcement about 2:15 this afternoon at his Manhattan office.
Mr. Spitzer, a first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children.
Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation. Administration officials would not say that this was the ring with which the governor had become involved.
He had a difficult first year in office, rocked by a mix of scandal and legislative setbacks. In recent weeks, however, Mr. Spitzer seemed to have rebounded, with his Democratic party poised to perhaps gain control of the state Senate for the first time in four decades.
Mr. Spitzer gained national attention when he served as attorney general with his relentless pursuit of Wall Street wrongdoing. As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.
In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.
“â€This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,†Mr. Spitzer said at the time. â€It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.â€
Albany for months been roiled by bitter fighting and accusations of dirty tricks. The Albany County district attorney is set to issue in the coming days the results of his investigation into Mr. Spitzer’s first scandal, his aides’ involvement in an effort to tarnish Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top Republican.
I'm still waiting for the announcement from him, but it looks like any national ambitions he had are now dead.
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Seriously, how does this come to pass?
Fix'd, apparently.
Seriously, the only bad thing about prostitution is that its illegality contributes to the spread of disease and other crimes, such as abuse of women.
He's not accused of running one, only of availing himself of the services of one.
Admittedly it would be cooler if the Governor of NY was secretly the biggest Vice Boss on the Eastern Seaboard.
That's totally an action movie waiting to happen.
Well, I do live in Illinois, where we and Blagoyavich (or whatever,) are trying to come close.
See, all I ask is that if you have a scandal, can it be interesting/funny?
"I hired an escort" is just lame on the scandalometer.
Isn't this is like the 5th or 6th phony to be exposed within the past year? I wonder how they gonna spin this.
Edit: A first read through his Wiki page is pretty positive. Any politician who actually calls into sports talk shows to talk about sports can't be all bad.
But, really, what the fuck is he doing here? I mean, Democrats in state positions in NY already took a big hit after the Alan Hevesi scandal. Republicans are going to spin this as "at least Pataki could keep it in his pants", and everyone knows they thrive on meaningless sex "scandals."
I swear, if Bruno ends up as Governor from this mess, I'm moving to fucking Pennsylvania.
He sure as hell rode a huge wave of support at the start. Then he bungled it all within a year. Pretty impressive crash and burn there.
If he was the governor of Nevada, nobody would care. :P
Pretty much, yeah.
In the 20 min it took me to go pick up my kid from school, NPR played his statement like 4 times. Basically, he apologized to his wife (as well he should, but I don't think it need have been public), and to the people of New York, and said that he had done something he felt was morally wrong, and that he wasn't taking any questions.
Actually they would. The governor of Nevada is just one scandal away from resigination. Shit, Dawn Gibbons is divorcing him!
It doesn't seem to be his foot that's the problem.
Well, they'd care that he was cheating on his wife (because that's totally everyone's business, as we found out in the late '90s :roll:), but it wouldn't be "resign"-level of scandal.
The main thing is that this guy had prosecuted escort services before, so he's a hypocrite. Makes me wonder if one of the girls from one of his buts, ahem, "cut a deal" and he continued to call her up when he was travelling.
Prosecuting them didn't make him a hypocrite, prosecuting them vigorously and then purchasing their services does, however. You said it yourself, he was pretty much bashing these high-class call girl outfits that probably didn't have much in the way of violent crime attached to them... he didn't have to make statements like that if he were just doing his job.
It sounds like he did, in fact, pad his resume with these high-profile busts.
Then again...
Hey-O!
the silly goose.
"This is where I say something profound and you bow, so lets just skip to your part."
He's manasged to look worse than Geroge fucking Pataki.
― Marcus Aurelius
Path of Exile: themightypuck
Also, the fact that he ran on cracking down on corruption makes this hilarious.
He could start a legal brothel in Nevada.