Eliot Spitzer Involved in Prostitution Ring

[sunnystarr]

I'm stunned!

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 inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He scheduled an announcement for 2:15 after inquiries from the Times.

www.nytimes.com

[JackORoses]

1. Isn't that Hillary's boy?

ahahahaahaaahahhhhahahaa!

[Warpy]

2. Well, shit, there goes his AG nomination!

It sounds from this like he was a client. "Involved in a prostitution ring" tries to make it sound like he was a pimp.

This article is inflammatory and says nothing.

How very typical for the NYT these days. I guess we know they're trying to protect the real criminals Spitzer was famous for going after, the criminals in the expensive suits on Wall Street.

I'm so damned sick of the nanny state and it's "victimless crimes" oxymoron. It insists on going after piddling stuff like hooking and pot while the real criminals steal us all blind.

[struggle4progress]

3. The Spitzer Scandal (The Nation)

For all the sordid and developing details of Eliot Spitzer's rendezvous with a high-priced prostitute, go to TPM's excerpt of the actual prosecutor filings on Temeka Rachelle Lewis, "Kristen" and "Client-9." ...

His chances of staying in office, however, would vanish if prosecutors charged him under the 1910 Mann Act--known at the time as the White-Slave Taffic Act. Passed at the end of the Progressive era during the height of a moral panic over alleged "white slavery"--the Mann Act banned the interstate transport of women for "immoral purposes." It's survived numerous court challenges and modifications by Congress over the years, but it's still on the books. Spitzer arranged for the prostitute's Amtrak ticket from New York to Washington (and her hotel room), so he could be subject to federal felony charges under the present day incarnation of the Mann Act. Indeed, the four defendants charged last week in the sting that swept up Spitzer were charged under the act ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080310/cm_thenation/15296865