Thread: CNN: NY Gov. Spitzer Linked to Prostitution Ring

Just saw on CNN that NY Gov. Spitzer tells Advisers he was involved in prostitution ring. Announcement coming from governor later.

LMAO and he won't resign either Their going to cruxcify him

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy! Ahhhhh, sweet justice

Wiretap recorded him arranging to meet with a high-price prostitute.

I am enjoying this so much!!!

I can now understand why Spitzer was so unconcerned with the legal status of illegal aliens during the licenses debate a few months ago. He's a criminal himself!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... refer=home

March 10 (Bloomberg) -- New York Governor Eliot Spitzer apologized to his family and the public, saying he had failed to lived up to his standards of conduct.

The New York Times reported on its Web site that Spitzer told his aides that he was involved in a prostitution ring, citing a person briefed on the investigation.

Spitzer, 48, at a Manhattan press conference with his wife Silda at his side, said he would ``take time to regain the trust of my family'' and report back ``in short order,'' without elaborating further.

The governor, elected in a landslide in November 2006 on a promise to change the state's political culture, gained national prominence by investigating financial analysts, mutual fund managers and insurance companies while state attorney general from 1999 to 2006. The Democrat is married with three daughters.

Spitzer was caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet a prostitute in Washington after arranging for her to travel from New York, the Times said, citing a person briefed on the federal investigation.

The Times said an individual identified in a federal affidavit as ``Client 9'' met with a woman in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on Feb. 13.

Four defendants in the case were charged with violation of the Mann Act, which deals with human trafficking and prostitution, the Times reported. The Act was passed in 1910.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Govs' salaries range from $1 to $206,500
By Andrew Knapp, Special to Stateline.org

Compared with the pay of captains of industry or college football coaches, the $124,398 average salary earned by U.S. governors in 2007 isn’t so spectacular. But for many, that’s not a problem. Three governors are donating their salaries back to the state, and others are fighting against a raise.

A list of 2007 gubernatorial salaries compiled by the Council of State Governments shows the largest at $206,500 in California, though the governor doesn’t accept it, and the smallest at $70,000 in Maine, where the governor hasn’t gotten a raise in 20 years. At $179,000, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) draws the largest salary among governors who actually accept one.

“When people run for governor, they know what the salary is,â€

REPORT: SPITZER LINKED TO PROSTITUTION RING
Post Staff Report
Eliot Spitzerdoes anyone believe spitzer will resign? democrats never heard of that word....what they do is "play for time" and get passed it .... with their constituents' help. fuhgedaboudit, new yawkers, this is democratic politics in new yawk. Get over it!!
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March 10, 2008 -- THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY. PLEASE REFRESH FOR UPDATES.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer told officials in his administration that he was involved in a prostitution ring, the New York Times reported. Fox News reported that he will be indicted and will resign.

But in a brief statement this afternoon, Spitzer said little about what he called "a private matter." He apologized to his family and the public but didn't say why he was apologizing. "I was disappointed that I did not live up to the standard that I expected of myself," he said.

He added that he must now "dedicate time to regain the trust of my family."

WATCH Sptizer's full statement.

Spitzer, who is married with three children, made cleaning up the ethics of state government a priority when he was elected.

Feds last week busted a diamond-studded international call-girl ring that offered well-heeled johns "fashion models, pageant winners and exquisite students" for up to $5,500 an hour - after one of the prostitutes turned on her pimp.

PHOTO GALLERY: Gov. Eliot Spitzer

Read the Post's story on the call-girl ring bust.

The Times reported that Spitzer was caught on a federal wiretap last month as he arranged to meet a high-priced prostitute in Washington. The recording was of a man identified as Client 9. The Times reported that someone with knowledge of the investigation said Spitzer is Client 9.

The johns paid as much as $50,000 for a weekend with a prostitute and had the option of purchasing a "buy out" of their favorite girls, which allowed them to book trysts directly with the hookers, Manhattan federal prosecutors said.

The Emperors Club, an upscale escort service, ranked its hookers on a seven-diamond scale on its Web site and then charged its wealthy clientele accordingly for "dates," court papers said.

Four people were charged with prostitution and tax crimes for allegedly raking in more than $1 million with a stable of 50 girls that serviced clients in New York, Washington, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, London, Paris and Vienna.

Spitzer had served two terms as attorney general where he pursued criminal and civil cases and cracked down on misconduct and conflicts of interests on Wall Street and in corporate America. He had previously been a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, handling organized crime and white-collar crime cases.

His cases as state attorney general included a few criminal prosecutions of prostitution rings and into tourism involving prostitutes.

In 2004, he was part of an investigation of an escort service in New York City that resulted in the arrest of 18 people on charges of promoting prostitution and related charges.

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Feds last week busted a diamond-studded international call-girl ring that offered well-heeled johns "fashion models, pageant winners and exquisite students" for up to $5,500 an hour

How does a $179,000 a year governor afford a call-girl costing up to $5,500 an hour?

Spitzer was caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet a prostitute in Washington after arranging for her to travel from New York, the Times said, citing a person briefed on the federal investigation.

Did he also pay travel expenses and travel time?