http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/spitzer/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:53:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417376/posts Incoming Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. has chosen as his chief gatekeeper disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's chief of staff, The Post has learned. The new DA intends to tap Marlene Turner, a longtime top Spitzer aide, to replace Ida van Lindt, who served as personal secretary to outgoing DA Robert Morgenthau and his predecessors. Vance's move to hire Turner wasn't mentioned in the lengthy staff rollout that Morgenthau's successor announced yesterday — but the move raised eyebrows among several long-time government hands as sending an odd message. "She is tied to everything Eliot," said one longtime government hand familiar... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417376/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:53:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405609/posts Eliot Spitzer, the former Governor of New York who resigned after his sexual exploits with numerous prostitutes was exposed, is considering a run for the Democrat nomination, to be the Democratic candidate for State Comptroller. Thomas DiNalopi, the current Comptroller who was elected to that position via the state legislature after Alan Hevesi resigned (another Democrat violating the law), is considered a weak Democratic candidate for the 2010 elections, and thus Spitzer might be an appealing candidate. New York is one of the most unstable governments in the Union, as the state is deep in red ink, we have one... Right Handed Pitcher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405609/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:15:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404718/posts Eliot Spitzer, who stepped down from the governor's office amid scandal, is now strongly considering a run for state comptroller.... Spitzer has in recent weeks had discussions with some Democratic donors and insiders about the position currently held by Tom DiNapoli.... A Democrat who spoke with Spitzer said, "He's seriously thinking about it." "He wants to run if he can," said another source. "He's still talking about it." Gov. Paterson backed the idea. New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404718/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:08:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385000/posts Eliot Spitzer's potentially explosive secret e-mail account he used during his days as New York's attorney general and governor could be made public in a court ruling within days. Amid claims of a two-year cover-up, a low-key legal fight has sought hundreds of e-mails from a private account that Spitzer operated "surreptitiously" at his offices to avoid a public paper trail, court documents claimed. Some of the e-mails in the account wound up as the basis of media reports about Spitzer's role in the "Troopergate" scandal this year, in which his office assigned state troopers to dig up dirt on... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385000/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:20:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383510/posts A young star observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope appears to be home to a wild – and young – planetary system that shares some of the frenetic dynamics thought to have shaped the early years of our own solar system. The Spitzer observations suggest young planets circling the star are disturbing smaller comet-like bodies, causing them to collide and kick up a huge halo of dust. space.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383510/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:03:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379303/posts very ironic announcement that I just got in my Harvard email announcing a forthcoming lecture: HARVARD UNIVERSITY EDMOND J. SAFRA FOUNDATION CENTER FOR ETHICS Eliot Spitzer, former Governor and Attorney General of New York, will deliver a public lecture as part of the 2009/10 Labs Lectures on the Question of Institutional Corruption. Thursday, November 12 at 4:30pm Emerson Hall, Room 105 25 Quincy Street, Cambridge This is a ticketed event. National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379303/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:13:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349764/posts NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has... observed infrared light coming from one such disk around a young star, called LRLL 31, over a period of five months. To the astronomers' surprise, the light varied in unexpected ways, and in as little time as one week... One possible explanation is that a close companion to the star -- either a star or a developing planet -- could be shoving planet-forming material together, causing its thickness to vary as it spins around the star... said James Muzerolle of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland[,] "This is a unique, real-time glimpse into the... India Business Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349764/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:39:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338597/posts Ashley Dupre -- the escort who toppled a governor -- is sick of hiding. Eighteen months after the scandal that took down Eliot Spitzer, the 24-year-old wants to become a singer, a mother, an author -- anything but that girl. "Everyone likes an underdog story, and everyone likes a comeback," she said during an exclusive interview and fashion shoot with The Post. "I'm the poster child for redemption." New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338597/posts#comment Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:05:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331267/posts The high-paid escort who notoriously romped with disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer has a message to New York ladies: You're no better than me! "Get real and get over yourself," Ashley Dupre bluntly tells all the women out there who "just love to judge." New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331267/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:35:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330638/posts (AP) - Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York, has a teaching position at City College. Mr. Spitzer, who resigned in a prostitution scandal in March 2008, is an adjunct professor in the political science department. Ellis Simon, a spokesman for the Manhattan college, says the three-hour class is called "Law and Public Policy.'' crain's ny biz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330638/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:55:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301369/posts Mark Sanford is trying to win his wife’s forgiveness, said George Rush and Joanna Malloy in the New York Daily News, but another married governor could be headed toward “fresh hell.” A “high-end escort” who's already said she had rough sex with then–New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is claiming that she also had three sex “dates” with another of our “most prominent governors”—call him Gov. X—whose wife is “prominent in her own right.” This story has to be “prompting a variety of quiet phone calls” among some governors' staff, said Moe Lane in RedState. As for the rest of us,... http://www.theweek.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301369/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:38:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2300664/posts No wonder Ed is always smiling. Just another Dem who can't keep his pecker in his pants.. Man, Ed Rendell is so screwed -- literally. I don't normally listen to Opie & Anthony looking for breaking news, but astonishingly that's what I just got. A few minutes ago, the cast of the show on Sirius XM radio were interviewing Kristin Davis -- not the one from Sex and the City, the former Manhattan Madam who spent four months in Rikers in connection with the Eliot Spitzer hooker scandal from last year. There's been quite a bit of speculation that her... http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/hooker_mystery_solved.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2300664/posts#comment Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:15:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296357/posts Another gubernatorial sex scandal may be looming. Even as South Carolina's Mark Sanford waits to see whether his wife, Jenny, forgives his romp in the pampas, a New York call girl could plunge one of America's most prominent governors into a fresh hell. In March, we told you about a high-end escort who claimed that former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had gotten overly aggressive during some kinky role-play (a charge Spitzer's lawyer called "outrageous and defamatory"). Now the elegant blond courtesan, whom we'll continue to call "Annie," is talking about three "dates" she allegedly had with another state's chief... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296357/posts#comment Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:37:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280799/posts On March 13, 2008, we had this to say when then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat, resigned after getting caught patronizing high-priced prostitutes: His fall "reminds voters that politicians comprise the last class of people worthy of the deification they are afforded. ... Mr. Spitzer's downfall underscores how politicians care less about public service than getting elected and re-elected, and amassing power with all its corrupting influences. It shows how the incessant flattery of journalists and regal treatment of subordinates creates egomaniacs who believe themselves entitled to special treatment and exempt from everyday laws. Most of all, it emphasizes... Waterbury Republican-American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280799/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:19:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278859/posts South Carolina's chief executive isn't the first to earn headlines for acting odd. A look at governors' unusual behavior: -Mark Sanford; South Carolina governor, 2003 to present: Sanford disappeared last week on a secretive vacation, out of pocket from staff, state leaders and even his wife. He had also once put a "spending clock" outside his office to show how quickly a proposed budget would spend state money, and brought pigs to the House chamber to protest pork he said lawmakers left in a budget. -Earl Long; governor of Louisiana, 1939-1940, 1948-1952, 1956-1960: Long had an affair with a stripper,... The State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278859/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:55:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254446/posts The state inspector general released nearly 2,000 pages of documents on Tuesday related to his just-completed investigation into the State Ethics Commission and its reputed leaks of information to the Spitzer administration. But the most revealing records in those documents chronicle a visit that the inspector general, Joseph Fisch, made to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer late last year. Mr. Fisch sought to interview Mr. Spitzer as part of the inquiry and found him hostile, frustrated over his experience in Albany and with his legendary temper in full bloom. The transcript of the interview, which had not previously been released, offered... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254446/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 03:40:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2249726/posts The kerfuffle about current New York Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Stephen Friedman's purchase of some Goldman stock while the Fed was involved in reviewing major decisions about Goldman's future—well-covered by the Wall Street Journal here and here—raises a fundamental question about Wall Street's corruption. Just as the millions in AIG bonuses obscured the much more significant issue of the $70 billion-plus in conduit payments authorized by the N.Y. Fed to AIG's counterparties, the small issue of Friedman's stock purchase raises very serious issues about the competence and composition of the Federal Reserve of New York, which is the most powerful... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2249726/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 02:24:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245979/posts Arianna Huffington, an internet hate-site owner, and Eliot Spitzer, a whoremonger, liar and terminally arrogant prick, being given air-time on CNBC's "Squawk Box" this morning. I'm glad the mute button is working on my remote... Rick Santelli must be turning purple over there in the Chicgao trading pit. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245979/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2009 11:42:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245240/posts The federal government has asked an appeals court to reverse a ruling ordering the public release of sealed documents in the prostitution probe that led to the resignation of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Government lawyers filed papers Tuesday with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing a judge was wrong to order the release of wiretap materials in the criminal case that ousted Spitzer. The government says the materials haven't been among court documents routinely made available to the public. It says Congress intended for the documents usually to remain secret. The New York Times had sought... foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245240/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 12:32:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233381/posts SO maybe Eliot Spitzer did kill AIG, after all. Nobody doubts the in surance giant is basically kaput, or that the promix ate cause is billions in losses in obscure instruments known as credit-default swaps, or CDSs. But American International Group didn't go deadly deep into CDSs until after New York Attorney General Spitzer had forced out Maurice "Hank" Greenberg out as CEO. GO back to March 2005, just days after Spitzer scored his biggest scalp during his eight-year tenure as the Sheriff of Wall Street by compelling Greenberg's departure. The new CEO, long-time AIG executive Martin Sullivan, held an... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233381/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:14:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2233248/posts SO maybe Eliot Spitzer did kill AIG, after all. Nobody doubts the in surance giant is basically kaput, or that the promix ate cause is billions in losses in obscure instruments known as credit-default swaps, or CDSs. But American International Group didn't go deadly deep into CDSs until after New York Attorney General Spitzer had forced out Maurice "Hank" Greenberg out as CEO. GO back to March 2005, just days after Spitzer scored his biggest scalp during his eight-year tenure as the Sheriff of Wall Street by compelling Greenberg's departure. The new CEO, long-time AIG executive Martin Sullivan, held an... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2233248/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:51:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225163/posts Eliot Sptizer's year in the wilderness taught him nothing.....it's still all about him. He popped up on TV to hit the comeback trail....after being caught in consort with a call-girl -- humiliating himself and his family and delivering the state into the stunningly inept hands of then-Lieut Gov Paterson.....it's hard to know which of Spitzer's transgressions was more egregious: * The Ashley Dupre dalliance.....* Or making a play for black votes by placing Paterson just one hooker from the Executive Mansion......the current chaos in Albany may have enticed Spitzer to poke his head out his hidey-hole: his fundamental failure was... NY POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225163/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:54:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609968/posts LOS ANGELES - Scientists think they have solved the mystery of how planets form around a star born in a violent supernova explosion, saying they have detected for the first time a swirling disk of debris from which planets can rise. The discovery is surprising because the dusty disk orbiting the pulsar, or dead star, resembles the cloud of gas and dust from which Earth emerged. Scientists say the latest finding should shed light on how planetary systems form. "It shows that planet formation is really ubiquitous in the universe. It's a very robust process and can happen in all... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609968/posts#comment Thu, 6 Apr 2006 01:01:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2210371/posts ALBANY, N.Y. – Eliot Spitzer has a few words to say about the AIG bonus brouhaha: I told you so. The former New York governor battered American International Group with charges of corruption long before his own dizzying downfall in a prostitution scandal. He has used this latest financial scandal to strike his old populist, Sheriff of Wall Street themes and, just maybe, mend his reputation — though critics contend that he bears a share of the blame for the insurance giant's historic near-collapse. Spitzer says the AIG bonus issue is "penny ante" compared to the billions of the insurer's... ASSociated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2210371/posts#comment Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:55:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202064/posts Eliot Spitzer choked her during sex, claims high-end call girl claims high-end call girl Updated Sunday, March 8th 2009, 3:08 PM Eliot Spitzer Altaffer/AP Eliot Spitzer Related News Articles * One year later: The Spitzer call girl scandal His political rivals used to accuse Eliot Spitzer of going for the jugular. Now a new call girl is claiming the former governor literally went for hers — claiming he wrapped his fingers around her neck during some kinky role-playing. As the first anniversary of his resignation as governor approaches, Spitzers Emperors Club VIP plaything Ashley Dupre is still holding back on... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202064/posts#comment Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:06:12 GMT