Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring

[NYT]

This is the biggest news today on NYT. Geez, I thought this guy has great future being the "protector" of small investors.

Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring

By DANNY HAKIM and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: March 10, 2008

ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at a Washington hotel last month, according to a person briefed on the federal investigation.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/nyregion/10cnd-spitzer.html

[NYT]

How Client 9 Got Caught

The rendezvous that established Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s involvement with high-priced prostitutes occurred last month in one of Washington’s grandest hotels, but the criminal investigation that discovered the tryst began last year in a nondescript office building opposite a Dunkin’ Donuts on Long Island, according to law enforcement officials.

There, in the Hauppauge offices of the Internal Revenue Service, investigators conducting a routine examination of suspicious financial transactions reported to them by banks found several unusual movements of cash involving the governor of New York, several officials said.

The investigators working out of the three-story office building, which faces Veterans Highway, typically review such reports, the officials said. But this was not typical: transactions by a governor who appeared to be trying to conceal the source, destination or purpose of the movement of thousands of dollars in cash, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/23575383

[Guest]

Some interesting points:

a. He cheated his wife on the day before Valentin's day.

b. He is a regular and known by the ring and girls as "George Fox" ("a few of the prostitutes had recently come to realize who the man really was.")

c. He asked the girl (see picture below) to come to D.C. from NYC. (This is a more serious charge.)

d. NYC PBS radio said the procedures to check financial transactions that caught Spitzer was instituted by Spitzer himself.

A picture of the girl:


More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/nyregion/12cnd-kristen.html