SubscribeShocker: Eliot Spitzer Linked To Prostitutes
From an understanding New York Times:
Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring
By DANNY HAKIM and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
March 10, 2008
ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who gained national prominence relentlessly pursuing Wall Street wrongdoing, has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a law enforcement official and a person briefed on the investigation.
The wiretap 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 hotel room, according to an affidavit filed in federal court in Manhattan. The person briefed on the case and the law enforcement official identified Mr. Spitzer as Client 9.
Mr. Spitzer, a first term Democrat, today made a brief public appearance during which he apologized for his behavior, and described it as a “private matter.” He did not address his political future.
“I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family and violates my or any sense of right or wrong,” said Mr. Spitzer, who appeared with his wife Silda at his Manhattan office. “I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public to whom I promised better.”
“I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself. I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family.”
Before speaking, Mr. Spitzer stood with his arm around his wife; the two nodded and then strode forward together to face more than 100 reporters. Both had glassy, tear-filled eyes, but they did not cry.
As he went to leave, three reporters called out, “Are you resigning? Are you resigning?”, and Mr. Spitzer charged out of the room, slamming the door.
The governor learned that he had been implicated in the prostitution inquiry when a federal official contacted his staff Friday, according to the person briefed on the case.
The governor informed his top aides Sunday night and this morning of his involvement. He canceled his public events today and scheduled the announcement for this afternoon after inquiries from The Times. The governor’s aides appeared shaken before he spoke, and one of them began to weep as they waited for him to make his statement at his Manhattan office.
The man described as Client 9 in the affidavit arranged to meet with a prostitute who was part of the ring, Emperors Club VIP, on the night of Feb. 13. Mr. Spitzer traveled to Washington that evening, according to a person told of his travel arrangements.
The affidavit says that Client 9 met with the woman in hotel room 871 but does not identify the hotel. Mr. Spitzer stayed at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on Feb. 13, according to a source who was told of his travel arrangements. Room 871 at the Mayflower Hotel that evening was registered under the name George Fox.
The law enforcement official said that several people running the prostitution ring knew Mr. Spitzer by the name of George Fox, though a few of the prostitutes came to realize he was the governor of New York.
Mr. Fox is a friend and donor to Mr. Spitzer. Asked in a telephone interview Monday whether he accompanied Mr. Spitzer to Washington on Feb. 13 and Feb. 14, Mr. Fox responded: “Why would you think that? I did not.”
Told that the Room 871 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel was registered in Mr. Fox’s name but with Mr. Spitzer’s Fifth Avenue address, Mr. Fox said, “That is the first I have heard of it. Until I speak to the governor further, I have no comment.” …
Though his signature issue was pursuing Wall Street misdeeds, as attorney general Mr. Spitzer also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.
In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.
“This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. “It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.” …
Of course the thing that will be his undoing are the reports from The Smoking Gun website that Mr. Spitzer engaged in “unsafe sex”:
Additionally, the affidavit notes that after her appointment with Client-9 ended, “Kristen” spoke with a Emperors Club booker, who said that she had been told that Client-9 “would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe…” “Kristen” responded by saying, essentially, that she could handle guys like that.
That and the fact that it wasn’t sex with a boy.
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March 10th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
NY Governor Spitzer takes a cue from Bill Clinton, from Fox News:
Of course there is no way he will resign, because for the most part the left doesn’t see anything wrong with this.
He’s “apologized” and said he will have to “reflect” on how he “disappointed himself.”
That’s more than enough for any Democrat.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Couldn’t have happend to a bigger a-hole. There is justice after all….now for the Rezko.
March 10th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Democrats will still vote for this fool…
NY and NJ are disasters, with the blindest partisans voting for the same old ‘con’.
The Partisan Bigotry has left the North East with Democrat Domination, and a suffering populace.
McGreevy worked it, playing the Liberal Homosexual Sympathy Card, to cover for the rest of his folly.
Corzine decided to raise spending and taxation even more, after the SPEEDER said he wasn’t even “considering” it.
Spitzer is just as mindless, using the State Police to spy on his political opposition.
And yet, I will wager Liberals will still give Spitzer the Office come reelection time, no matter how ugly things can get.
Isn’t it embarrassing to see how many of these Liberals voted for Hillary?
But then again, these are the same fools who empowered McCain in the GOP Primary, and love the old Mavrick for undermining the Conservative Interest.
Would Senator McCain be the first ‘divorced’ President ever?
It is one huge comedy of errors…
Truly embarrassing.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Why isn’t this pig handcuffed in the back of police cruiser? After years of abusing his power for personal gain client 9 better get what’s coming to him. Sometimes I pity the citizens of NY but they do choose to elect his kind freely.
Spitzer’s claim to fame was going after Wall Street, which was very appealing to the capitalist hating left. According to the American Spectator, “His main tool was New York State’s 1921 Martin Act, which, ostensibly because it only seeks civil penalties, allows all sorts of abrogation of Constitutional rights. As one legal scholar put it, “people called in for questioning during Martin Act investigations do not have a right to counsel or a right against self-incrimination.”
Hopefully New Yorkers who turned a blind eye to this will snap out of their blind liberal bias’. I doubt it though.
For William Tucker’s Spectator article:
http://www.spectator.org/util/.....t_id=12317
March 10th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
“Client-9 “would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe…””
I picture two on a trapeze.
“That and the fact that it wasn’t sex with a boy” or an animal or a dead woman.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
“ I picture two on a trapeze.”
I was thinking cat juggling!
And they weren’t declawed…..
March 10th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
“# DEZ March 10th, 2008 at 7:35 pm “I picture two on a trapeze.” I was thinking cat juggling! And they weren’t declawed…..”
And Spitzer was nude. My eyes are starting to water.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
HNAV wrote: “Would Senator McCain be the first ‘divorced’ President ever?”
The answer is an obvious no he wouldn’t be the first. I don’t know who the first divorced president was, but I do know that Ronald Reagan was divorced from Jane Wyman prior to marrying the future first lady, Nancy Davis.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I think people are being a little harsh on Elliot Spitzer. He was merely taking a proactive role in the “quality assurance” program offered by the New York entertainment industry. And if by some chance he managed to discourage some of the competition in Staten Island…….well, sombody has to make the hard choices.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Why am I not surprised that this sleaze worked for the Klantoon regime?
And I swear, as God is my witness, if I had a wife who resembled Jennifer Anniston to that extent, there is NO WAY I would go hunting for whores! This twerp should resign on the basis of sheer, mind boggling stupidity ALONE!
March 10th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
As the Wall Street joke is going, “Methinks this Emperor had no clothes!”
March 10th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I’m torn between feeling sorry for her having to stand there when she did nothing to deserve it and wondering if she is just so dumb she thinks he still has something she needs.
Maybe the two of them deserve each other, just like Beauty and the Beast.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
His wife is a MILF, I don’t know what is wrong with that man.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Maybe he was trying to make up with the dollars he was spending for the lack of manliness between his legs.
Or maybe he is just a plain old run of the mill idiot.
I opine, you decide.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:32 am
I guess the best part of this is that he’s being excoriated NOT because of involvement with prostitutes, but because he engaged in “unsafe sex.” That is utterly hilarious.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:57 am
How sick do you have to be that the hooker thinks having sex with YOU is unsafe?
I’m so OCD I slathered myself in neosporin after reading this article.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:13 am
In 2004 before the Republican Convention in NYC the ol’ Eliot Spitzer warned the GOP, ” You’d better NOT bring up 9/11!” Well now that you and Bill Clinton have been outed as Porn Stars while you were supposed to be doing the people’s business NOW can we talk about what the DEMOCRATS were doing while Al Quada was planning it’s attack, Gov?!? Can we talk 9/11 again?!? ROFLMAO
March 11th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Hey HNAV,
Are you from N.J.? I was and am thankfully no longer there. Did you hear about the time McGreevy broke his leg while he was prancing around on the beach with his boyfriend? The state police had to rush his wife there before the EMTs and press arrived on the scene. N.J. tax dollars at work.
Hey Sharps,
You’re right, I didn’t notice how much she does resemble Jennifer A. Good looking woman, his wife, he is an idiot
I’m not surprised that this idiot finally is going to get his just deserts. He has PO’d a lot of very powerful people in the interest of his own aggrandizement. I’m surprised that the fact he is a Dem was pointed out in the article also, albeit “a first term” one.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:15 am
I do declare,
There were times when I was so lonsome,
That I took some comfort there….
But then, I wasn’t married or even attached at the time. Just a poor E-4 in a foreign country.
Since he’s a demoncrap it’s surprising his liaisons were not with a male prostitute, unfortunately for him. Had it been a gay liaison then the MSM would be crying about how confused he is with his sexual identity. And having an “alternative life style” would’ve made it OK with the MSM.
Seems like Spitzer and Brad Pitt have the same screwed up priorities.
If I’m not mistaken, RR the Great was our first divorced president.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Maybe he should run for President.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Hooker: “Yeah. He was a Sadistic F*.*k.
Yeah, but we already knew that.
DEZ - Forget all that. Eliot Spitzer Is The Green Goblin (Spiderman 2002)
March 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Things like this make me glad I’m currently registered as an independent. And that I don’t live in New York.
B17Engr–You shouldn’t say things like that, even in jest. The last thing we need is another lust-crazed ex-governor in the White House.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Unfortunately for Eliot, transporting a woman across state lines for immoral purposes is not “a private matter.”
March 11th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
An update from the New York Post:
March 11th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Democrats! What a trove of sanctimonious bastards. In Larry Elder’s book “Stupid Black Men” he writes in chapter two commenting on scandals;
…”a ‘Historical Summary of Conduct Cases in the House of Representatives,’ available on their Web site. Last updated in 2004, it lists every ethics case in the House since 1978. As far as investigations go, Democrats leave Republicans in the dust. Okay, Democrats have been around longer. So take a look at the past thirty years. Of the seventy members investigated for serious offenses–some of them involving criminal charges and jail time–only fifteen have been Republicans. The remaining fifty-five were Democrats.”
IMO, since the MSM is overwhelmingly liberal and Democrat (I know, a redundancy), if this were not true they would be shouting even louder about the culture of corruption pervaiding the Republican party. If the House Ethics Committee had not been in Democrat control for forty-two of the last fifty-four or so years, think how many more might have been investigated. Now think of Madam Speaker Pelosi. The fox now guards the hen house. These people are putred
March 11th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Landshark - all “Kristin” likely meant is that Spitzer didn’t want to use a condom.
I’m more amazed at the prices quoted - $4600 for a prostitute?!?!
I’m truly impressed. I know the cost of living in the New York/Washington area is high, but wow.
I guess we’re not in a recession after all. :-) :-)
March 11th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
So even when he was prosecuting others for the same thing and expressing revulsion for the accused, this little rat faced liberal was guilty as sin. Way to reinforce my disgust for politicians. Maybe the voters of New York, for that matter the nation, should take the election process just a little more serious.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Might be better off if there was no resignation according to this story from the American thinker Site
“The lieutenant governor’s unique law enforcement positions are beyond ultra-liberal — they’re ultra-moronic. “
March 11th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Don’t cry for Silda, she is a big girl. Research her biography.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
From the Emperors Spokes Models Page, via Google cache:
March 12th, 2008 at 12:08 am
“Representing Spokes models of superior verbal and non-verbal communication skills, they make your customers feel important and engaged while providing a professionally informative experience.”
This is too good.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Several blogs are hinting that Spitzer will resign tomorrow.
I wouldn’t put odds on that just yet, after all, Dems don’t resign due to scandals. Look at Kennedy, Studds, Frank, Reynolds, Jefferson, Leahy and the king of scandals, Clinton (and his consort of course). Business as usual for the Demo-rats.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:59 am
I’m sure he’ll claim that he was just sponsoring a bright young girl in a Washington D.C. internship–in the grand traditional style of past Democratic Party luminaries. Fulfilling the dream of a high school trip to the nations capitol that never happened.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Oh no, Now we cant call Bill Clinton the Great Fornicator anymore…………. People will be confused. LMAO