New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer announces his involvement with a prostitution ring - Page 2

**Augustus Gloop** · 03-10-2008, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Trooper

since when?

I don't have any information about that if that's what you're asking, but statistically close to half of TG should be.

Kerostasis · 03-11-2008, 12:06 AM

Isn't the country broken down about 1/3 Dem, 1/3 Repub, 1/3 Independant? I would be surprised if 1/2 of TG went for any one of those types -- that would make us pretty slanted.

**Switchcraft** · 03-11-2008, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Switch

Now if he had been going to a state where prostitution is legal, could he have avoided this mess by saying -- hey, its legal.

No...he still was knowingly engaging in human trafficking by arranging for her to cross state lines. But what they're probably going to get him on is what he always used to try and nail other people for: creating financial structures in order to obscure the purpose of these payments.

**Switchcraft** · 03-11-2008, 03:13 AM

This is a must read.

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Originally Posted by The Affadavit

Client 9 "would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe...."

xTYBALTx · 03-11-2008, 12:38 PM

"It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy."

LOL

AMosely · 03-11-2008, 01:31 PM

Boy, Spitzer really screwed this one up. At least he's being honest about it instead of taking the weasel route ("These allegations are FALSE!") - then again, kindof hard to dispute the evidence here. I'm fascinated by these high-level, 'executive' prostitution rings though. I guess powerful people need powerful prostitutes - that or airport bathroom stalls, or churches..

xTYBALTx · 03-11-2008, 01:37 PM

Powerful people need to not use cell phones, emails, addresses, or hotel rooms which are connected to their own names!

And sheesh... can't we just make prostitution legal already? Browsing through some of the legal documents at TheSmokingGun, I am struck by how normal everything was. If I didn't already know otherwise, I could have been tricked into thinking I'm reading the boring everyday internal documents of a national real estate agency. Except for all the stuff about sex :]

**Augustus Gloop** · 03-11-2008, 02:24 PM

He didn't use his own name. He registered the hotel room in the name of a friend, and didn't give his name to the prostitution ring. He's not stupid, the problem is that moving that kind of money secretly is tough, and he believed the call girl when she told him that giving it to a certain blind corporation would show up as a business purchase. The blind corp was the one under investigation.

xTYBALTx · 03-11-2008, 02:35 PM

He still presumably used his own personal phone and bank accounts! And presumably his own credit card to reserve the hotel room.

Spitzer spent much of his career sifting through emails, phone calls, and text messages for dirt. Idiota!

**Tempus** · 03-11-2008, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by xTYBALTx

"It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy."

Good stuff. I could care less about his Escort dalliances on their own, but the hypocrisy of lawmakers never ceases to amaze me. I hope he gets the same treatment he gave to others.

**Augustus Gloop** · 03-11-2008, 02:53 PM

Buzz around my office (I work for a state senator in NY) is that he's going to have to resign in order to prevent his rival Senator Bruno from becoming Governor. We think he's only delaying his announcement to work out a deal with prosecutors.

**USN_Squid** · 03-11-2008, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by AMosely

I guess powerful people need powerful prostitutes - that or airport bathroom stalls, or churches..

...or the White House?

They're dropping like flies:
Iran: Tehran police chief arrested in brothel with six prostitutes

xTYBALTx · 03-11-2008, 03:15 PM

That's nothin! In Chicago, a prostitute is more likely to have sex with a police officer than to be officially arrested by one :]

Kerostasis · 03-11-2008, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by xTYBALTx

He still presumably used his own personal phone and bank accounts! And presumably his own credit card to reserve the hotel room.

Spitzer spent much of his career sifting through emails, phone calls, and text messages for dirt. Idiota!

Didn't the reports about "client 9" specify that he refused to use the Emporer Club's normal bank transfer plan and insisted on paying in cash instead? I'd say he was pretty careful. He was eventually caught mostly because the Club's phones were tapped by the feds, so no matter how much caution he used on his own end, anyone talking to the Emporer Club would be overheard.

**El_Gringo_Grande** · 03-11-2008, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by USN_Squid

...or the White House?

They're dropping like flies:
Iran: Tehran police chief arrested in brothel with six prostitutes

Now that guy knows how to go out!

03-11-2008, 12:38 PM	#20 (permalink)
xTYBALTx Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,749	Re: New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer announces his involvement with a prostitution ring "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy." LOL __________________ Current good song: Justice - Stress "$250,000 a year won't get me to Central Park West."

03-11-2008, 01:31 PM	#21 (permalink)
AMosely Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Maine Age: 33 Posts: 2,514	Re: New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer announces his involvement with a prostitution ring Boy, Spitzer really screwed this one up. At least he's being honest about it instead of taking the weasel route ("These allegations are FALSE!") - then again, kindof hard to dispute the evidence here. I'm fascinated by these high-level, 'executive' prostitution rings though. I guess powerful people need powerful prostitutes - that or airport bathroom stalls, or churches..

03-11-2008, 01:37 PM	#22 (permalink)
xTYBALTx Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,749	Re: New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer announces his involvement with a prostitution ring Powerful people need to not use cell phones, emails, addresses, or hotel rooms which are connected to their own names! And sheesh... can't we just make prostitution legal already? Browsing through some of the legal documents at TheSmokingGun, I am struck by how normal everything was. If I didn't already know otherwise, I could have been tricked into thinking I'm reading the boring everyday internal documents of a national real estate agency. Except for all the stuff about sex :] __________________ Current good song: Justice - Stress "$250,000 a year won't get me to Central Park West."

03-11-2008, 02:24 PM	#23 (permalink)
Augustus Gloop Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Gone for the weekend folks! Age: 32 Posts: 2,589	Re: New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer announces his involvement with a prostitution ring He didn't use his own name. He registered the hotel room in the name of a friend, and didn't give his name to the prostitution ring. He's not stupid, the problem is that moving that kind of money secretly is tough, and he believed the call girl when she told him that giving it to a certain blind corporation would show up as a business purchase. The blind corp was the one under investigation. __________________

03-11-2008, 02:35 PM	#24 (permalink)
xTYBALTx Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,749	Re: New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer announces his involvement with a prostitution ring He still presumably used his own personal phone and bank accounts! And presumably his own credit card to reserve the hotel room. Spitzer spent much of his career sifting through emails, phone calls, and text messages for dirt. Idiota! __________________ Current good song: Justice - Stress "$250,000 a year won't get me to Central Park West."

03-11-2008, 02:53 PM	#26 (permalink)
Augustus Gloop Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Gone for the weekend folks! Age: 32 Posts: 2,589	Re: New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer announces his involvement with a prostitution ring Buzz around my office (I work for a state senator in NY) is that he's going to have to resign in order to prevent his rival Senator Bruno from becoming Governor. We think he's only delaying his announcement to work out a deal with prosecutors. __________________

03-11-2008, 03:15 PM	#28 (permalink)
xTYBALTx Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,749	Re: New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer announces his involvement with a prostitution ring That's nothin! In Chicago, a prostitute is more likely to have sex with a police officer than to be officially arrested by one :] __________________ Current good song: Justice - Stress "$250,000 a year won't get me to Central Park West."

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