Posted on 03/10/2008 11:46:20 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK - The New York Times is reporting that Gov. Eliot Spitzer has told senior advisers that he had been involved in a prostitution ring.
On its Web site, the newspaper cites an anonymous administration official as the source and says Spitzer was meeting with his top aides.
Spitzer officials wouldn't immediately comment on the story to The Associated Press. An announcement was scheduled for 2:15 p.m. at his Manhattan office.
A churnin' urn of burnin' funk...
Where’s the news here? We all knew he was a member of the pimp & whore party.
didnt he also beat up on pro-life groups? hah
Spitzer was meeting with his top aides.....
Ha! Ha!....I’ll bet he was and it wasn’t to discuss what he was going to tell wifey and kids!
Hillary’s VP Candidate?
It does not matter b/c Hannity will run right with this news off the top of the hour.
ED Hill on Fox News - Spitzer to RESIGN!!
How many prosecutions have been jeopardized?
top of the news hour,,
Spitzer got caught up in a prostitution ring, 4 people arrested last week may have led to this revelation coming out, he is 45 minutes for a scheduled press conference.
The toast should pop up any moment now.
Get Lost you CREEP!
Report: Spitzer Linked to Prostitution
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The Times reported that a person with knowledge of the governor's role believes the governor is identified as a client in court papers. Four people allegedly connected to a high-end prostitution ring called Emperors Club VIP were arrested last week.
next he gets announced as a VP candidate.....
I don;t see how he has much choice.
His mantra was Tough Guy, Legit to the core..
Who had he endorsed?
Obama,, maybe Hil slipped him a .. oh never mind..
article udate
NY governor linked to prostitution ring
AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/ap_on_re_us/spitzer_prostitution
NEW YORK - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has told senior advisers that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, The New York Times reported Monday, citing an anonymous top administration official.
Spitzer, who is married with three daughters, was scheduled to make an announcement Monday afternoon.
Spitzer officials wouldn’t immediately comment on the story.
The Times reported that a person with knowledge of the governor’s role believes the governor is identified as a client in court papers. Four people allegedly connected to a high-end prostitution ring called Emperors Club VIP were arrested last week.
The Web site of the Emperors Club VIP displays photographs of scantily clad women with their faces hidden, along with hourly rates depending on whether the prostitutes were rated with one diamond, the lowest ranking, or seven diamonds, the highest. The most highly ranked prostitutes cost $5,500 an hour, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said the defendants arranged connections between wealthy men and more than 50 prostitutes in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, London and Paris.
The Times reported that the governor’s travel records show he was in Washington in mid-February, and that one of the clients arranged to meet with a prostitute on the night of Feb. 13.
The case is being handled by prosecutors in the Public Corruption unit of U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia’s office. Garcia spokeswoman Yusill Scribner said the office had no comment.
Spitzer, 48, built his political legacy on rooting out corruption, including several headline-making battles with Wall Street while serving as attorney general. He stormed into the governor’s office in 2006 with a historic share of the vote, vowing to continue his no-nonsense approach to fixing one of the nation’s worst governments.
Time magazine had named him “Crusader of the Year” when he was attorney general and the tabloids proclaimed him “Eliot Ness.”
But his stint as governor has been marred by several problems, including an unpopular plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and a plot by his aides to smear Spitzer’s main Republican nemesis.
Spitzer had been expected to testify to the state Public Integrity Commission he had created to answer for his role in the scandal, in which his aides were accused of misusing state police to compile travel records to embarrass Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno.
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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Associated Press Writer Mike Gormley contributed to this report from Albany, N.Y.
He was ordering off a 1 to 7 Diamonds rates list for his choice.
Damn!
Here he comes to the mike.
The steamroller may have single handedly saved New York from a democrat lock on the legislature come November. We can at least thank him for that.
He said he failed in obligations to his family, and to the public yet did not choose to resign at this time but will be back to us shortly.
I think he just needs some time for it to all settle in his mind..
Good luck trying to survive what is about to come
, Gub.
Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring
By DANNY HAKIM and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: March 10, 2008
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ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a person briefed on the federal investigation.
The wiretap recording, made during an investigation of a prostitution ring called Emperors Club VIP, captured a man identified as Client 9 on a telephone call confirming plans to have a woman travel from New York to Washington, where he had reserved a room. The person briefed on the case identified Mr. Spitzer as Client 9.
The governor learned that he had been implicated in the prostitution probe when a federal official contacted his staff last Friday, according to the person briefed on the case.
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Hope this wan't a FISA involved wiretap with no judges approval....
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