http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/nyregion/10cnd-spitzer.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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"ALBANY - 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. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times Governor Eliot Spitzer at a news conference in July 2007. Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He is set to make an announcement about 2:15 this afternoon at his Manhattan office. Mr. Spitzer, a first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children. Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation. Administration officials would not say that this was the ring with which the governor had become involved. He had a difficult first year in office, rocked by a mix of scandal and legislative setbacks. In recent weeks, however, Mr. Spitzer seemed to have rebounded, with his Democratic party poised to perhaps gain control of the state Senate for the first time in four decades. Mr. Spitzer gained national attention when he served as attorney general with his relentless pursuit of Wall Street wrongdoing. As attorney general, he 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.” Albany for months been roiled by bitter fighting and accusations of dirty tricks. The Albany County district attorney is set to issue in the coming days the results of his investigation into Mr. Spitzer’s first scandal, his aides’ involvement in an effort to tarnish Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top Republican."

A democrat bites the perverted dust.

3/10/2008 1:13:50 PM

LET THE BELLS RING OUT

3/10/2008 1:14:18 PM

just heard this on cnn right now

3/10/2008 1:14:34 PM

How whoreiffic!

3/10/2008 1:15:09 PM

wasnt he good friends with HRC?

3/10/2008 1:16:18 PM

It's all a part of the vast right wing conspiracy!!!!11!!

3/10/2008 1:16:44 PM

It's all a part of being a public official from New York.

3/10/2008 1:20:03 PM

this press conference needs to hurry the fuck up and happen...7 minutes past time now

3/10/2008 1:23:05 PM

he's finishing up with his hooker.

3/10/2008 1:26:32 PM

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"How whoreiffic!"

gg

3/10/2008 1:27:46 PM

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"Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image "

3/10/2008 1:27:57 PM

the only big deal about this were his prior statements about prostitution rings.

I also smell a Law & Order episode.

3/10/2008 1:28:19 PM

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"the only big deal about this were his prior statements about prostitution rings. "

Or the prostitution rings themselves... but democrats champion those.

3/10/2008 1:43:14 PM

at least he didnt solicit sex in an airport bathroom

3/10/2008 1:44:25 PM

so we're engaging in a "who's more wrong contest?"

I surely didn't defend Foley or Craig.

3/10/2008 2:06:35 PM

^ I've refrained from posting in this thread for the sole purpose of eliminating that impression... aside from my slightly but unintended Democratic party defending joke that is.

3/10/2008 2:10:29 PM

I don't mind elected officials getting some tail on the side as long as they can govern effectively and are not hypocrites about it. I don't care that Larry Craig engages in homosexual acts. I am only mad about his because he is a rabid homophobe and actively worked against homosexual rights. I didn't care that Mark Foley was a homosexual. I only cared because of his rabid homophobia and the fact that it was underage boys.

I don't care about Elliot Spitzer getting it on outside of marriage, other than the fact it was with a prostitute and he made his early career off busting prostitutes.

I didn't care about Jim McGreey being a homosexual

3/10/2008 2:14:43 PM

The Democrats are perfect! They NEVER do anything wrong!!

3/10/2008 2:14:52 PM

what the hell are you going on about? Who said anything about democrats not doing anything wrong?

3/10/2008 2:20:34 PM

haha he is client 9 in an afidavit(sp?)...his prostitutes name was kristen, which he said "ok, good!"...it was $3500 for that bitch, 5'5" 105lbs...brunette...the chick that led this said she wanted 1500 more....elliot had to be reminded of what she looked like

3/10/2008 2:47:13 PM

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"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.” "

Ha, that doesn't seem to really be any angry and revolting rebuke of the prostitution ring.

3/10/2008 2:49:42 PM

i have no problem with him fucking prostitutes from a high end whore house like this, where the women have a choice in the matter (assuming that is the case). i would have a problem if he was going to some shady place where women are forced into prostitution (like some places in chinatown). his family matters aren't of concern to me.

i have a big problem with the fact that he was so vocally against prostitution and is now found to be a hypocrite. to me, that is the only issue here... though he broke the law and it will be a much bigger issue to those that abide by all laws and morally oppose protitution.

for me, it's the same as craig. i had no problem with what he did, only the fact that he was hypocrite.

3/10/2008 3:13:35 PM

They busted some big prostitution ring in Charlotte a month or two ago...I'm still waiting to see what local celebs get busted

3/10/2008 3:32:04 PM

God damn those were some pricey ho's!

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"The women pictured on the Emperor's Club V.I.P. web site, now taken down, had their faces blurred but featured body shots alongside a one to seven diamond ranking system. Chintzy customers willing to go low-end could get a three-diamond lady for $1,000 an hour; seven-diamond pros cost $5,500 an hour and would be flown around the world. According to The New York Sun, the company also offered "investment services and deals on contemporary art." "

http://gothamist.com/2008/03/07/international_e.php




Spitzer was a fuh reek

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""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. "

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0310082spitzer1.html

3/10/2008 4:11:54 PM

haha oh snap...i bet shes not refering to anal either

3/10/2008 4:13:18 PM

^ SHe might be, but her with a strap on...

3/10/2008 4:14:48 PM

for $5,500 / hour she better do whatever the hell you tell her to do

3/10/2008 4:18:39 PM

or maybe ATM?

ATV?

ATMTV?

ATVTM?

3/10/2008 4:20:05 PM

i want to see what 5000 dollars an hour can buy you now a days...

3/10/2008 4:21:50 PM

Here's what's left of the website:

http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:GISaU8uRs-8J:emperors-spokesmodels.com/Welcome/Welcome.html+Emperors+Club+VIP&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us&client=firefox-a


Here are the "models":

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/03/07/emp3_wideweb__470x293,0.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/busted-online-escort-ring-was-a-real-gem/2008/03/07/1204780030605.html&h=293&w=470&sz=35&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=oHgAihWhS3b_NM:&tbnh=80&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Demperors%2Bclub%2Bvip%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

[Edited on March 10, 2008 at 4:53 PM. Reason : V, I tried to tiny URL it, but it won't let me because it is a secure code...whatever that means]

3/10/2008 4:41:41 PM

^tiny url please.


And for all of you who think this is no big deal and that his only crime is hypocrisy... think of how wide open he left himself for political blackmail... the guy is a sleaze bag and just plain dumb.

3/10/2008 4:51:31 PM

"Oops! My bad."

[Edited on March 10, 2008 at 4:56 PM. Reason : .]

3/10/2008 4:52:01 PM

with a mug like that, no wonder he had to spend 4000 dollar bucks to get laid.

3/10/2008 4:55:24 PM

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"How whoreiffic! "

lol

3/10/2008 5:07:48 PM

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""We act for a select group of educated, refined and successful international clients who give their best in all they do and who, in return, only wish to receive the best."

And that would be women who have been fucked by hundreds of men EACH???

3/10/2008 5:12:28 PM

Did anyone see on the site above that there was a rating system for the girls.

3/10/2008 5:33:48 PM

Well, maybe we'll find out soon if Eliot Spitz-er swallows.

3/10/2008 6:21:53 PM

All hooers please report to the batchelor

3/10/2008 7:40:15 PM

It wasn't even the sex that initially got the FBI sniffing around.

They were investigating him for possible "structuring" -moving money around in order to hide it. The FBI thought he was hiding bribes and later found out he was just paying prostos.

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""Today, I want to briefly address a private matter. I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family, and that violates my — or any sense of right and wrong. I apologize first, and most importantly, to my family. I apologize to the public, who I promised better. "I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals, it is about ideas for the public good and doing what is best for the state of New York."

Sounds to me like a little Clinton-esque compartmentalizing. How about:

"I apologize to the voters of New York who put their trust in me as the state's top official. I have also shamed the attorney general's dept -my years of prosecuting people for the very crime I have committed numerous times. My acts have done nothing but given those cynics of public service more reasons to distrust those in power. I am without worth...please don't look at me"


Well at least now Hillary won't have to worry about gov. Spitzer giving licenses to illegals.

3/10/2008 8:04:42 PM

Silda, Spitzer's wife--not a bad-looking woman at all.

BTW, many in the news media have been calling this situation a "tragedy"--I don't recall them using that word about any Republican sex scandals. And I heard some idiot e-mailers on NPR this morning that seemed to be asking if Bush's wiretaps were responsible for this.

3/11/2008 11:30:34 AM

for such an old guy, you may be the most childish poster in TSB.

[Edited on March 11, 2008 at 11:35 AM. Reason : i agree with your first point though. ]

3/11/2008 11:34:48 AM

^ Basically, fuck you. Can you respond to the post and stop personally attacking me or is that beyond you?

BTW, piss off.

3/11/2008 11:37:21 AM

It's a legitimate observation.

3/11/2008 11:39:22 AM

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"They were investigating him for possible "structuring" -moving money around in order to hide it. The FBI thought he was hiding bribes and later found out he was just paying prostos."

I heard basically the same thing, that the FBI doesn't usually specifically target prostitution, but it often comes up during the course of investigating something else, like shady money deals.

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"And I heard some idiot e-mailers on NPR this morning that seemed to be asking if Bush's wiretaps were responsible for this. "

while you could argue about the semantics of what "responsible for this" means, but overall it is a valid point. The FBI could have been using wiretapping provisions from FISA or the Patriot Act to gather the information that they did.

3/11/2008 11:48:37 AM

Hooksaw bastardizes conservativse with every post.

3/11/2008 11:50:14 AM

^^^

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"Basically, fuck you. Can you respond to the post and stop personally attacking me or is that beyond you? BTW, piss off. "

Same to you.

1. I pointed out that the Spitzer's wife is not bad-looking.

2. I pointed out that the left-wing media is wringing its hands over the Spitzer scandal in ways that I haven't observed with similar Republican scandals.

3. I pointed out that NPR listeners seemed to be trying to blame Bush's wiretaps for the Spitzer scandal. (^^ See?)

(1) How would you know how old I am? You don't know me. (2) What difference does my age make? And (3) what part of the post at issue is "childish," dick?

^ Fuck you.

[Edited on March 11, 2008 at 11:51 AM. Reason : .]

3/11/2008 11:50:40 AM

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"I pointed out that NPR listeners seemed to be trying to blame Bush's wiretaps for the Spitzer scandal. (^^ See?)"

No, i'm not "blaming" the Bush wiretaps. The asshole deserved to be caught either way.
But it's perfectly legitimate to wonder if the FBI used any of their relatively new-found powers to obtain the data they did. Either way, I don't care how they got their info as long as it was legal under whatever the law was at the time

3/11/2008 11:57:32 AM

^ Okay--understood. But (1) those other NPR listeners seemed to care a lot how the information was gathered. And (2) I find it odd that you would immediately be concerned about how the information was gathered. It just feels like the blame-America-first mentality--honestly.

3/11/2008 12:25:29 PM

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"I find it odd that you would immediately be concerned about how the information was gathered."

i wasn't immediately concerned. It hadn't occurred to me until i heard other people mention it.
And from the apparent size of this thing and the amounts of money that was being thrown around,
it's hard to imagine it wouldn't have been discovered with only the most basic police work anyway.

3/11/2008 12:56:15 PM

set 'em up...

[Edited on March 11, 2008 at 1:03 PM. Reason : lots of funny in this thread too btw, gg]

3/11/2008 1:01:56 PM