No charges to be filed against Eliot Spitzer

[RB TexLa]

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Federal prosecutors say they will not bring criminal charges against former Gov. Eliot Spitzer for his role in a prostitution scandal.

The announcement was made Thursday by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia. Garcia said that after a thorough investigation, his office found no evidence that Spitzer or his office misused public or campaign funds for prostitution.

Garcia said: "We have concluded that the public interest would not be further advanced by filing criminal charges in this matter."

The news removes a huge legal cloud surrounding Spitzer, who was forced from office in March after it was revealed that he paid for high-priced call girls.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6492575&rss=rss-wabc-article-6492575

[AuntPatsy]

1. Why do people worry about what people do in their private lives??

Another issue that should be no issue at all..What a woman or man for that matter chooses to do with his or her own body is HER business, my God why don't people realize that even prostituion is a "choice" that demands to be heard...

[curse of greyface]

2. On the whole I agree. But when you were a prosecutor that

Made hay by clamping down on call girl rings... Well suffice it to say.

[AuntPatsy]

4. Not sure what you mean? Are you saying it's just good for business by making

prostituion illegal?

[curse of greyface]

6. I'm saying if you are a DEA agent drug charges are more serious

than if you are the towns dog catcher.

[AuntPatsy]

7. Okay, noted..

[Canuckistanian]

5. Exactly. In Canada, it might have made headlines for a day

Then, we'd never hear of it again.

No crime, no harm done to anyone else (other than his wife), who cares?

[AuntPatsy]

8. Agree wholeheartedly, I never have understood why people care so much about other's sex lives....

is it perhaps that it's because they themselves have never found pleasure in such so have become bitter about the subject and wish to ensure no one else ever gets that feeling?

[gratuitous]

3. Well, the rumor of scandal did what it needed to do . . .

Mission accomplished.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Yup and after they got rid of Spitzer ...

... the banks fail.

Coincidence?

[mdmc]

10. I often wondered about that

I think both Spitz and Andrew Cuomeo saw the crisis coming. I often wondered why Cuomo didn't run with the ball once Spitz was out of the way.

[ColbertWatcher]

12. He probably didn't have everything Spitzer did. n/t

[pleah]

11. Why should they? They already

ruined his career, their job is done.