Eliot Spitzer the P I M P lol

HULK1550 · 03-10-2008, 11:57 AM

I wonder if he used to get the 1 diamond or the 7 diamond girls LOL

March 10: New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologizes to his family and the public saying, "I failed to live up to the standards I set for myself."
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Spitzer linked to prostitution ring?
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NEW YORK - Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologized to his family and the public on Monday, but did not not elaborate on a bombshell report that he has been involved in a prostitution ring.

"I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family ... my sense of right and wrong," he said at a news conference at his Manhattan office. "I must now dedicate some time to rededicate my trust to my family."

Spitzer's wife stood at his side, her hands behind her back and her eyes cast downward, as he made the statement.

The New York Times earlier reported that a person with knowledge of the governor’s role believes the governor is identified as a client in court papers filed last week. Four people allegedly connected to a high-end prostitution ring called Emperors Club VIP were arrested in that case.

The Times reported that a person briefed on the federal investigation said Spitzer was caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month.

Spitzer learned he had been implicated when a federal official contacted his staff last Friday, the person briefed on the case told the Times.

The Web site of the Emperors Club VIP displays photographs of scantily clad women with their faces hidden, along with hourly rates depending on whether the prostitutes were rated with one diamond, the lowest ranking, or seven diamonds, the highest. The most highly ranked prostitutes cost $5,500 an hour, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said the defendants arranged connections between wealthy men and more than 50 prostitutes in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, London and Paris.

The Times reported that the governor’s travel records show he was in Washington in mid-February, and that one of the clients arranged to meet with a prostitute on the night of Feb. 13.

The case is being handled by prosecutors in the Public Corruption unit of U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia’s office. Garcia spokeswoman Yusill Scribner said the office had no comment.

Spitzer, 48, built his political legacy on rooting out corruption, including several headline-making battles with Wall Street while serving as attorney general. He stormed into the governor’s office in 2006 with a historic share of the vote, vowing to continue his no-nonsense approach to fixing one of the nation’s worst governments.

Time magazine had named him “Crusader of the Year” when he was attorney general and the tabloids proclaimed him “Eliot Ness.”

But his stint as governor has been marred by several problems, including an unpopular plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and a plot by his aides to smear Spitzer’s main Republican nemesis.

Spitzer had been expected to testify to the state Public Integrity Commission he had created to answer for his role in the scandal, in which his aides were accused of misusing state police to compile travel records to embarrass Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno.

Spitzer had served two terms as attorney general where he pursued criminal and civil cases and cracked down on misconduct and conflicts of interests on Wall Street and in corporate America. He had previously been a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, handling organized crime and white-collar crime cases.

His cases as state attorney general included a few criminal prosecutions of prostitution rings and into tourism involving prostitutes.

In 2004, he was part of an investigation of an escort service in New York City that resulted in the arrest of 18 people on charges of promoting prostitution and related charges.

jpt · 03-10-2008, 12:06 PM

the night before valentines day.....beautiful!

Kabeetz · 03-10-2008, 12:10 PM

When Spitzer came into office, a very successful Republican administration was leaving. His appeal crossed party lines, the Republican party offered no real alternative, and he rode into office with a mandate to focus on his platform of re-installing ethics into government and cleaning up state institutions.

Somewhere along the way though politics has a way of turning people into politicians.

It's a shame. Always seems to be the people with the highest and most vocal "ethical standards" who fall the furthest.

redguru · 03-10-2008, 12:20 PM

Interesting that he didn't resign, he admitted culpability and he is going to be indicted today or tomorrow.

TheSuaveOne · 03-10-2008, 12:35 PM

This type of behavior didn't just start when he took this office. Please, he just never got caught before. The only reason he is sorry is because he got caught.

redguru · 03-10-2008, 12:41 PM

From the Smoking Gun

"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."

I think some pictures like the Marv Albert series are going to turn up.

FiletMignon16oz · 03-10-2008, 12:51 PM

Why is that it's always those holier than the Pope types that are the ones that are the unholiest!

A good ole' lesson I've learned--you just can never base your opinion of someone based on his words and self-portrayal...apparently even his actions.

midlifecrisis · 03-10-2008, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kabeetz

When Spitzer came into office, a very successful Republican administration was leaving. His appeal crossed party lines, the Republican party offered no real alternative, and he rode into office with a mandate to focus on his platform of re-installing ethics into government and cleaning up state institutions.

Somewhere along the way though politics has a way of turning people into politicians.

It's a shame. Always seems to be the people with the highest and most vocal "ethical standards" who fall the furthest.

Wow, thats a pretty generous assesment there Beetz. Thats was I love about you democrats, you dont even pretend to have any objectivity. I guess youre right, old Spitzer was just a victim of the game. We should console him I guess. Dang old tough game of politics finally broke his iron will. :vomit:

A L · 03-10-2008, 12:57 PM

So he liked good looking women and was willing to pay them to do strange things to him....

Why is this illiegal?

BIGBUCK$ · 03-10-2008, 01:11 PM

HOW IS HE A PIMP???
THE GUY IS A JOHN LOL!!!

redguru · 03-10-2008, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A L

So he liked good looking women and was willing to pay them to do strange things to him....

Why is this illiegal?

Because by paying such an exorbitant price he is artificially inflating the worth of punani at the everyday Joe's level. If he is paying 3500-4500 an hour for it, that means your average craigslist girl will raise her prices. Damn seller's market.

Kabeetz · 03-10-2008, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by midlifecrisis

Wow, thats a pretty generous assesment there Beetz. Thats was I love about you democrats, you dont even pretend to have any objectivity. I guess youre right, old Spitzer was just a victim of the game. We should console him I guess. Dang old tough game of politics finally broke his iron will. :vomit:

I said that a politician with great potential compromised his morals, worseso because morality is largely what he based his campaign on, and deserves to pay the price.

That's just what it is, MLC. Not trying to take a side on this one. His administration has been plagued with scandal and he was never able to get much done because of it. He was not a good governor.

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Originally Posted by TheSuaveOne

This type of behavior didn't just start when he took this office. Please, he just never got caught before. The only reason he is sorry is because he got caught.

I don't have any problem with the "behavior" itself. Who cares. It should be legal anyway. I have a big problem with hypocrites who write the laws, update the laws and sit by as others go to jail for breaking these laws that they themselves break and know should be changed. It's pathetic what people will do for the "public" life.

In the end, I'd rather have the ex-Governor who got caught banging a whore than have the ex-Governor who got caught cheating on his wife with his male sex toy or the Senator who plays footsie in the men's room

mnk · 03-10-2008, 03:15 PM

What makes it bad for him (hypocritical behavior) is that the dumb fuck was a prosecutor and PROSECUTED people for the same offenses. Sned him away fuck them. Politician all (well most ) act and think they're above the law!

Biter · 03-10-2008, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FiletMignon16oz

Why is that it's always those holier than the Pope types that are the ones that are the unholiest!

A good ole' lesson I've learned--you just can never base your opinion of someone based on his words and self-portrayal...apparently even his actions.

Yep! Shades of Young Goodman Brown

Fawkes · 03-10-2008, 04:39 PM

I think there is something very significant about this. We were told that wire taps and surveillance would not be done on ordinary US citizens, and only to prevent terrorist activities. Obviously these taps for the US Patriot act are being done on US citizens, and for activities other than terrorism - which is exactly what many were worried about when all the sureillance was started. They were right. Obviously he made the wrong person mad.

DrewDog · 03-10-2008, 04:51 PM

who said anything about the Patriot act?

wire taps and surveillance has been done on citizens for a long time, long before the patriot act

TheSuaveOne · 03-10-2008, 05:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fawkes

Obviously these taps for the US Patriot act are being done on US citizens, and for activities other than terrorism...

Huh? Why are you making things up?

03-10-2008, 11:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
HULK1550 Super Moderator Join Date: Feb 2000 Posts: 3,378 Rep Power: 58302	Eliot Spitzer the P I M P lol I wonder if he used to get the 1 diamond or the 7 diamond girls LOL March 10: New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologizes to his family and the public saying, "I failed to live up to the standards I set for myself." MSNBC Spitzer linked to prostitution ring? Delegate update How can you want him as VP, if…? BREAKING NEWS updated 9 minutes ago NEW YORK - Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologized to his family and the public on Monday, but did not not elaborate on a bombshell report that he has been involved in a prostitution ring. "I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family ... my sense of right and wrong," he said at a news conference at his Manhattan office. "I must now dedicate some time to rededicate my trust to my family." Spitzer's wife stood at his side, her hands behind her back and her eyes cast downward, as he made the statement. The New York Times earlier reported that a person with knowledge of the governor’s role believes the governor is identified as a client in court papers filed last week. Four people allegedly connected to a high-end prostitution ring called Emperors Club VIP were arrested in that case. The Times reported that a person briefed on the federal investigation said Spitzer was caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month. Spitzer learned he had been implicated when a federal official contacted his staff last Friday, the person briefed on the case told the Times. The Web site of the Emperors Club VIP displays photographs of scantily clad women with their faces hidden, along with hourly rates depending on whether the prostitutes were rated with one diamond, the lowest ranking, or seven diamonds, the highest. The most highly ranked prostitutes cost $5,500 an hour, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said the defendants arranged connections between wealthy men and more than 50 prostitutes in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, London and Paris. The Times reported that the governor’s travel records show he was in Washington in mid-February, and that one of the clients arranged to meet with a prostitute on the night of Feb. 13. The case is being handled by prosecutors in the Public Corruption unit of U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia’s office. Garcia spokeswoman Yusill Scribner said the office had no comment. Spitzer, 48, built his political legacy on rooting out corruption, including several headline-making battles with Wall Street while serving as attorney general. He stormed into the governor’s office in 2006 with a historic share of the vote, vowing to continue his no-nonsense approach to fixing one of the nation’s worst governments. Time magazine had named him “Crusader of the Year” when he was attorney general and the tabloids proclaimed him “Eliot Ness.” But his stint as governor has been marred by several problems, including an unpopular plan to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and a plot by his aides to smear Spitzer’s main Republican nemesis. Spitzer had been expected to testify to the state Public Integrity Commission he had created to answer for his role in the scandal, in which his aides were accused of misusing state police to compile travel records to embarrass Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno. Spitzer had served two terms as attorney general where he pursued criminal and civil cases and cracked down on misconduct and conflicts of interests on Wall Street and in corporate America. He had previously been a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, handling organized crime and white-collar crime cases. His cases as state attorney general included a few criminal prosecutions of prostitution rings and into tourism involving prostitutes. In 2004, he was part of an investigation of an escort service in New York City that resulted in the arrest of 18 people on charges of promoting prostitution and related charges.

03-10-2008, 12:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
redguru Gold Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Pensacola, FL Posts: 787 Rep Power: 65847	Interesting that he didn't resign, he admitted culpability and he is going to be indicted today or tomorrow. __________________ Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome. -- Robert A. Heinlein, from "To Sail Beyond the Sunset"

03-10-2008, 12:41 PM	#6 (permalink)
redguru Gold Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Pensacola, FL Posts: 787 Rep Power: 65847	From the Smoking Gun "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." I think some pictures like the Marv Albert series are going to turn up. __________________ Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome. -- Robert A. Heinlein, from "To Sail Beyond the Sunset"

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FiletMignon16oz Separation by X-Mas Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 405 Rep Power: 42622	Why is that it's always those holier than the Pope types that are the ones that are the unholiest! A good ole' lesson I've learned--you just can never base your opinion of someone based on his words and self-portrayal...apparently even his actions. __________________ "Warning: We don't recommend you go below 1,600 calories a day because you'll have difficulty managing your blood sugar levels, making you irritable, unable to concentrate and less likely to lose weight and keep it off."

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03-10-2008, 12:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
jpt Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,322 Rep Power: 10413	the night before valentines day.....beautiful!

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Kabeetz Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: N.Y. Posts: 6,745 Rep Power: 205147	When Spitzer came into office, a very successful Republican administration was leaving. His appeal crossed party lines, the Republican party offered no real alternative, and he rode into office with a mandate to focus on his platform of re-installing ethics into government and cleaning up state institutions. Somewhere along the way though politics has a way of turning people into politicians. It's a shame. Always seems to be the people with the highest and most vocal "ethical standards" who fall the furthest.

03-10-2008, 12:35 PM	#5 (permalink)
TheSuaveOne Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 2,133 Rep Power: 9526	This type of behavior didn't just start when he took this office. Please, he just never got caught before. The only reason he is sorry is because he got caught.

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A L YOKED Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Controlled Aggression Posts: 3,011 Rep Power: 271935	So he liked good looking women and was willing to pay them to do strange things to him.... Why is this illiegal?

03-10-2008, 01:11 PM	#10 (permalink)
BIGBUCK$ TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: NYC Posts: 484 Rep Power: 2547	HOW IS HE A PIMP??? THE GUY IS A JOHN LOL!!!

03-10-2008, 03:15 PM	#13 (permalink)
mnk Gold Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: NYC, NY Posts: 531 Rep Power: 7831	What makes it bad for him (hypocritical behavior) is that the dumb fuck was a prosecutor and PROSECUTED people for the same offenses. Sned him away fuck them. Politician all (well most ) act and think they're above the law!

03-10-2008, 04:39 PM	#15 (permalink)
Fawkes Banned Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 761 Rep Power: 0	I think there is something very significant about this. We were told that wire taps and surveillance would not be done on ordinary US citizens, and only to prevent terrorist activities. Obviously these taps for the US Patriot act are being done on US citizens, and for activities other than terrorism - which is exactly what many were worried about when all the sureillance was started. They were right. Obviously he made the wrong person mad.