Spitzer Linked To Prostitution Ring

Mr. Clean has a new problem.  The good news - his involvement with a prostitution ring seems to be as a client, not an owner/operator.

I can only imagine the laughter on Wall Street right now.  But after a few phone calls, I won't need to imagine it.

Hmm - maybe he could offer the ladies driver's licenses...

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT FOR SPITZER: Number 9... Number 9... Number 9...

TigerHawk piles on, with lots of malicious links.  Let me single this out:

Stephen Bainbridge is closer to the mark:  "Is schadenfreude a sin? If so, I’m sinning big time today."

I would have written that if I thought I could have spelled "schadenfreude".  As to whether it is a sin, funny you should ask (I think we are good to go on the schadenfreude binging).

YA THINK?  "Prostitution link tarnishes Spitzer's "clean" image".  Reuters, on a limb.

THE REAL QUESTION - IS IT GOOD FOR HILLARY?  OK, hands up if you knew that New York's Lieutenant Governor is both black and legally blind.  Spitzer had endorsed Hillary, but the winds may shift.

 

Comments

[Jane]

Geez, I tried so hard to break this news I posted it 3 times!

Is he trying to deflect from the Rezko trial? I thought he was on Hillary's side.

[MayBee]

Ha Ha ha ha ha ha hah hahhha hahhah

[GMax]

his involvement with a prostitution ring seems to be as a client, not an owner/operator.

Well there are three possible roles here for young Elliott, the two you mention and then of course he could be a provider instead of user or owner. Given he is an elected politician its already well within the known job description.

[Jane]

He visited on Feb 13th, the Emporer's Ring got busted and he got sold down the river. He's about to give a statement.

He's married with 3 kids.

Will he resign?

[GMax]

The only politicians that resign when caught with their pants down, are ones with a shred of conscience. Given he is a Democrat, I think that leaves him out. Who is the Lt Gov of NY, its not like the name just rolled off our toungues now does it?

[Jane]

Oh I bet Andrew Cuomo is waiting in the wings...

(Lots of really unattractive democrats in NY)

[Jane]

Lt. Governor Paterson, who is legally blind,

[capitano]

This self-promotion is disgusting!

Spitzer is blatantly pandering to the Democrat party to wrestle the Vice Presidential bid away from Barack L. Ron Obama.

[Ann]

Cell phone records were used to catch him! IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!

[clarice]

Ha Ha ha ha ha ha hah hahhha hahhah

Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy--Wait..I guess since Foley and the change in Congress we're back to it's just about sex, nothing to bother about here, can't we all get along, old news, yadayadayada..

But seriously, his many, many allies and friends will surely leap to his defense..............

Ha Ha ha ha ha ha hah hahhha hahhah

[maryrose]

Why am I not surprised. What goes around comes around.He is toast!

[Jane]

Spitzer will resign!!!!!

[Jane]

Gee maybe he can go work on Wall Street now.

[BumperStickerist]

This being a high class blog and all, I guess a headline of "Spitzer Swallows" would be non-couth.

[Ann]

He has three daughters. What a toad!

[clarice]

In a few months time he'll have cranked out a confessional memoir, been healed by Dr Phil on Oprah and making millions on his tell all book.
Why doesn
t stuff like this happen to me, damnit!!!!!!!!!!!

[Appalled Moderate]

While use of prostitutes gets you some lousy newspaper headlines, I do not notice that it actually has ever forced a politician out of office.

(David Vitter anyone?)

[Topsecretk9]

AP MOD

90,000 grand in the freezer doesn't either.

[GMax]

I just heard the name of the Lt Gov, David Patterson I believe. He is not only an African American but is legally blind, so the Democrats will get a two-fer with this battlefield promotion, if Spitzer does step down.

[Sara]

He has been indicted by the Southern District and will resign. This is a bombshell.

[Sara]

Hypocrisy will get you every time.

[GMax]

How indicted in the SDNY ? How many politicians survive an indictment? ( besides Frezer Jefferson I mean ). Cuz it apparently has already happened.

Not to mention the ties starting to come out about the Gambino crime syndicate owning the "Agency".

And how about the hypocricy that apparently knows no Earthly bounds. Mr. cleaning up corruption Spitzer, being involved in a quite a bit of it himself...

[Ann]

Oh good gawd, One of Hillary's supporters just said on Fox that this will eclipse the Miss. primary tomorrow with a smile on her face.

[clarice]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0306082emperor2.html>John Edwards type fees

$5500 bucks an hour --That's more than most ambulance chasers make. When word of this gets out Harvard law school will be begging people to enroll.

[PaulL]

What great news!

I'm POSITIVE there's more to the story than that he went to a prostitute once.

[Neo]

Eliot Spitzer: “Client Number 9"

I thought it took a dead woman or a live boy.

[Sara]

$5500 bucks an hour

I definitely chose the wrong career. LOL.

Apparently they have his cell phone records linking him as well as some other info from the Emperors Club VIP.

[Sara]

A SEALED indictment since Feb. 7th. Love those sealed indictments, not.

[Ann]

The Emperors Club had a stable of 50 girls that serviced clients in New York, Washington, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, London, Paris and Vienna.

Wonder, if he is the only one?

Greta/Fox: she has known him for twenty years, he made a bad mistake and she feels sorry for him. BOO HOO

[PeterUK]

Come along Jomsters,stop this unseemly gloating. The lawyers amongst you should be thinking of his future ex-wife,she will need representation.

[GMax]

I can almost assure you that the NY Senate majority leader has been unable to repress a smile this past hour or so.

[PeterUK]

Clarice

"Why doesnt stuff like this happen to me, damnit!!!!!!!!!!!"

It is the "wages of sin",but you have to meet it halfway,you have to sin first.

[Appalled Moderate]

In case you are curious about the adventures of Client #9, you can find them on pages 25-30 here. The icky bit is at the end of the selection (pp 29-30).

[PeterUK]

"Eliot Spitzer: “Client Number 9"

Come in Number Nine,your time's up.

[Neo]

Spitzer is always trying to grab all the TV "face-time".

What are Obama and Clinton to do ?

A 1975 movie staring Susan George comes to mind.

[GMax]

Not only did he not use the word resign in the brief statement, but apparently at this moment he has not. How utterly typical..

[Sara]

Aaaah, Greta has the paperwork. She says it is not an indictment, but a sealed complaint by an FBI agent.

[Neo]

I just can't resist ..

A SEALED indictment since Feb. 7th. Love those sealed indictments, not.

Hey, what ever happened to Karl Rove's pending indictment in "Sealed v Sealed ?

That intrepid reporter (gag) Jason Leopold owes everybody a few names of his sources.

[ben]

Giuliani for Governor!!

[Rickter]

Caught on a Federal WIRE TAP!! BBBWWWWWAAAAHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA

[kim]

The oldest procession.
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[glasater]

What this guy did to Dick Grasso--who practically single handidly got the stock market going shortly after 9/11--was unconscionable.

Wall Street folks have every reason to break out the champagne.

[Neo]

LEWIS told "Kristen" to text her when he arrived and LEWIS would start the four hours then

I've been hearing those Levitra commercials on TV, more than 4 hours could be dangerous.

[Dave]

Democrat play book, play #2,943:
1. Say you'll resign.
2. Check polls.
3. If necessary, resign.
4. Cut back-room deals with unions.
5. Once moderates are appeased, run for governor again.
6. Win with union support.
7. Use more discreet prostitution ring.

[ben]

Most newswires forgot he is a Democrat...but of course had he been a Republican, his picture would have had an R emblazoned on his forehead.

[GMax]

Want to bet me that NY taxpayer funds are involved?

[ben]

"6. Win with union support."

Hookers have a union?

[Neo]

four hours

At $5,500 an hour, that's $22,000.

So who paid the bill ? His campaign fund ? The taxpayers of New York state ?

[Sara]

Via AP thru Fox:

Governor caught on Federal wiretap.

[Neo]

I guess that Spitzer could claim that he had a Broad stance, and the broad was named "Kristen".

[Topsecretk9]

GMAX

Peep's at Ace's say he's prolly using resignation as part of a plea deal. That's sounds about right to me. He's gone.

from the juicy details - ole Elliot's been doing this a while it seems

At approximately 8:12 p.m., TEMEKA RACHELLE LEWIS, a/k/a "Rachelle," the defendant, using the 6587 Number, received a call from Client-9. During the call, LEWIS told Client-9 that the "package" did not arrive today. LEWIS asked Client-9 if there was a return address on the envelope, and Client-9 said no. LEWIS asked: "You had QAT . . .," and Client-9 said: "Yup, same as in the past, no question about it." LEWIS asked Client-9 what time he was interested in having the appointment tomorrow. Client-9 told her 9:00 p.m. or 10:OO p.m.

SO this is just a bit beyond the Gov picking up a hooker - he was knowingly operating with a front company too.

[glasater]

The Emperors Club also offered investment advice. A full survice company.

[ben]

"Four hours

At $5,500 an hour, that's $22,000."

Yeah, but was it worth it? And did he get the biggest bang for his buck? (sorry, but that one was dangling over homeplate)

[Topsecretk9]

"You had QAT . . .,"

QAT Consultants or something was the name of the "front" company.

[Dave]

"6. Win with union support."

Hookers have a union?

Isn't that a guaranteed Federal right?

[Sara]

Jonah Goldberg:

The words 'therapy,' 'sex addiction,' 'Oprah,' and 'redemption' are in Elliot Spitzer's future.

[clarice]

Spitzer has a very rich father who has housed the gov and his family free in an apt he owns--a subsidy worth about $500k . I exoect he gets regular indusions of cash from dad.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

So who paid the bill ? His campaign fund ? The taxpayers of New York state ?

Spitzer has more money than a pig farm has pig shit, I don't think he needed government money.

[clarice]

Jonah and I are aooarently on the same track..

[GMax]

QAT consulting Gambino Crime syndicate and subsidiaries.

Please get the check right.

[GMax]

From an Albany paper:

A staffer in an office of a Republican state senator, whose leader, Joe Bruno, has clashed with Gov. Spitzer, described the scene in her office as one of joy: “My office is just loving this. It’s like a party, sans alcohol.”

[Topsecretk9]

oh, and it appears a tad on the kinky side too

LEWIS continued that from what she had been told "he" (believed to be a reference to Client-9) "would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe - you know - I mean that . . . very basic things. . . . "Kristen" responded: "I have a way of dealing with that . . . I'd be like listen dude, you really want the sex? . . . You know what I mean."

[Sue]

Uh...we shouldn't gloat too much yet. There is still 1 through 8 that could have R's after their name.

[Jane]

WEll this has turned into a red letter day. Tee Hee

[GMax]

Sans the hookers too. /sarcasm

[Topsecretk9]

GMAX
Heh.

[clarice]

I love it when Savanarola gets burned on the pyre he built for others.

[Jane]

It's karma - that's all - it's just karma.

[Sara]

Even if 1 thru 8 have Rs after their names, none are the crusader governor of New York. Its the hypocrisy, stupid! As they say.

[ben]

"Spitzer has more money than a pig farm has pig shit, I don't think he needed government money."

The idea of "not needing government money" would never occur to a Democrat.

[clarice]

Don't start up with that karma stuff, charlie will just use it as an excuse to make us read his PM bit on karma again, Jane.

[Topsecretk9]

Sue

I got that there is a dude in Miami, a dude Vegas, a dude in Chicago and a dude from London with a Vienna rendavous - that's 5 and I think there were 10. I didn't see reference to any more in DC (not that that matters) but there could be more politicians but I didn't get a sense this was strictly a politician prostitution ring, but servicing the richie Rich's (Dicks - heh).

[MayBee]

Uh...we shouldn't gloat too much yet. There is still 1 through 8 that could have R's after their name.

You know, any govt official paying prostitutes, regardless of party, gets my disgust.
Especially married politicians out of town while his wife is home with his kids.

[clarice]

It's too expensive for most American pols--I think. And they manage to get adequate freebies.

[Mike Huggins]

What, Spitzer couldn't afford a Manhattan townhouse to visit his lady friends, like Megan, I mean, "Kristen", in?

[ben]

"Uh...we shouldn't gloat too much yet. There is still 1 through 8 that could have R's after their name."

Yeah, I hear the NYT is checking to see if one of the hookers know a John....and from there one could deduct it might be John McCain.

[GMax]

NY US Represenatative Peter King on paybacks and hell and all that:

Rep. Peter King, after praising the state's lieutenant governor: "I don't know anybody who's been more self-righteous than Eliot Spitzer... I don't know anybody who's going to come to his defense."

[clarice]

Keep your eyes on the ball:Spitzer is a valued Hill superdelegate. (A)If he resigns does he still get to vote for Hill and (B)Can she pardon him even BEFORE she takes office?

[Topsecretk9]

Hilarious Ace commenter

2 Where'd everybody go?
Posted by: Client number ten at March 10, 2008 03:37 PM (5yNaE)

[Other Tom]

I have literallly been dancing a gloating dance of joy. This sanctimonious bully has now been utterly disgraced--perhaps his wife and daughters will now recognize what so many of us have known about him: he is an untrustworthy charlatan.

First time in many a year that I have literally left the ground and clicked my heels in the air--perhaps not a pretty sight, but I did it. Oh, what exultation!

[clarice]

OT--Jane and I are virtually dancing with you.

[Topsecretk9]

Matt Stoller of MyDD is poohng poohing the implications of this private matter and sees a future for Spitzer yet.

I seem to recall Rudy's personal life was of high, high importance to MyDD in the day.

[Sara]

Has anyone seen a comment from Rudy yet? I haven't.

[Jane]

Keep your eyes on the ball:Spitzer is a valued Hill superdelegate.

Felons for Hillary!

I'm tempted to buy some stock in solidarity with Wall Street. This news alone could send the Dow to record heights.

[Sue]

2 Where'd everybody go?
Posted by: Client number ten at March 10, 2008 03:37 PM (5yNaE)

::grin::

[MayBee]

Stupid wife. Stupid wife. Stupid wife.
What is she doing next to him at the news conference?

Come on you idiot political wives. Get angry at your husbands.

[clarice]

It will be great fun to read the NYT piece on this, won't it. Unnamed pol hits wrong keys on text message and is caught in FISA eavesdropping nightmare.

[Neo]

Well it's only $4,300 plus.

I think the confusion here is around the line "Make Love Not War". Apparently the Governor thought since the US has a professional army that his love should come from a "professional".

[GMax]

How many superdelegates are indicted on felony charges? Freezer Cash Jefferson and Elliott Spitzer, any others? ( As if two isn't two too many!).

[Neo]

Spitzer is a valued Hill superdelegate

"Kristen" thought so too.

[Topsecretk9]

not MyDD anymore - open left

By now you've heard that Eliot Spitzer was caught in a prostitution ring. While this is certainly scandalicious, it's not clear to me how this stacks up to larger crimes that politicians regularly engage in abusing their oaths of office. This is a personal matter, and since Spitzer is a public figure, what is personal is public. But he didn't abuse his office as Governor of New York state, though this is a crime.

cute, huh?

[Elliott]

Quite a way to kick off Valentine's day.

When did the Emperors Club begin operating?

[Neo]

This brings a new meaning to culture of corruption.

[GMax]

This Spitzer will ask for his "deposit" back? The whole discussion about putting up $1500 as an advance on a hooker is certainly interesting. I wonder if the Gambono family has a sign up someplace prominent that say " No cash refunds, merchandise credit only!"

[clarice]

Heh--Maybe he can transfer it to one of his friends..OTOH I thought the comment on Ace's was a real winner, ts.

[Sara]

I don't know how long this picture will stay on the front page of Fox, but it kind of says it all. Look at his wife, she looks like a woman who has been thru the ringer before getting the pic snapped.

http://www.foxnews.com/

[Neo]

But he didn't abuse his office as Governor of New York state

The chief executive (AKA the governor of the state) is the chief law enforcemnt officer of the state. This is abuse.

Youd shouldn't take this from a policeman, or the policeman's boss.

[Sara]

Aaah, here is a direct link.

[clarice]

She is a very rivh woman who has gotten whatever material thing her heart could desire by staying married to this asshole. And her presence at the presser today indicates she still thinks it's an okay deal.
My sympathies lie with the people whose rights Spitzer has systematically abused for free.

[Sara]

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