p2pnet - rss feed: Eliot Spitzer, Client 9 and the Emporer’s Club
p2pnet news | Crime:- New York governor Eliot Spitzer who, as the state’s attorney general, among other things exposed illegal corporate music industry practices, is now himself in deep trouble over alleged involvements with high-priced online prostitutes working for the Emperor’s Club V.I.P., currently reporting “Sorry, the site you requested has been disabled”.
The site arranged ‘dates’ with more than 50 beautiful young women in New York, Paris, London, Miami and Washington, says the New York Times.
“After a public apology yesterday for behavior ‘that violated the obligations to my family and that violates my or any sense of right or wrong,” Spitzer, aka Client 9, “faces calls from friends and adversaries for his resignation less than 18 months after winning election with the biggest majority in state history,” says Bloomberg News, going on:
A routine the criminal investigation started last year ultimately revealed Spitzer had, “patronized a prostitution ring,” says the NYT, continuing officials in Albany, “greeted the news with shock”.
Not surprisingly, some on Wall Street, “a frequent target of his investigations as attorney general,” were, “unsympathetic”.
Transactions, officials said, “suggested possible financial crimes - maybe bribery, political corruption, or something inappropriate involving campaign finance,” says the story, adding:
“Prostitution, they said, was the furthest thing from the minds of the investigators.”
As Client 9, Spitzer dealt with Temeka Lewis, the booking agent for the Emperor’s Club, says the NYT, going on that an FBI affidavit, “captures the almost mundane financial back-and-forth” prior to a meeting, “quoting Ms. Lewis as telling her boss, Mark Brener, the owner of the ring, that Client 9 had a $400 or $500 credit to his name and wished to use it toward his next appointment”.
For another meeting, “Ms. Lewis told the client that his balance was $2,721 and that he could pay an additional $2,000 - apparently for future appointments. He said he wasn’t sure that he could find a bank machine that would give him that much money, but he would try.”
As attorney general, Spitzer prosecuted cases, “far afield from Wall Street, including prostitution,” says the Wall Street Journal, continuing:
“In 2004, Mr. Spitzer indicted 18 people associated with popular “escort services” operating in New York City and its suburbs for promoting prostitution and related charges. That same year, he prosecuted individuals who promoted prostitution through tours in Asia, known as “sex tourism.”
“Last year, as governor, Mr. Spitzer helped pass legislation that toughened penalties for ’sex tourism’ operations and ’sex traffickers’ who bring foreigners into the U.S. and force them into prostitution.”
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Also See:
music industry practices - Spitzer on Sony BMG scandal, July 28, 2005
New York Times - Revelations Began in Routine Tax Inquiry, March 11, 2008
Bloomberg News - Spitzer, Ethics Crusader, Now Probed Over Own Conduct, March 11, 2008
NYT - Affidavit: Client 9 and Room 871, March 11, 2008
Wall Street Journal - Wall Street Cheers As Its Nemesis Plunges Into Crisis, March 11, 2008
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March 11th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Arroseur arrosé!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:44 am
homestead. lol
March 11th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Can someone please explain why prostitution is even still illegal? All of the “problems” experts like to cite related to it are caused by the fact that it’s illegal. Make it legal and regulate it like any other business and those problems mostly go away.
Oh right, I forgot that prostitution is “immoral” and “wrong”, based on the teachings of a religion that harbors child molesters.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Its a matter of trust.
Certainly Spitzer hid from his wife he was sleeping with a whore. A good way to give aids to a wife.
If Spitzer’s own family cannot trust him can he be trusted to run a state government?
If Spitzer new prostitution was illegal in NY it was he who had to enforce the law, can he be trusted? After all he is not an unmarried person living in a place where prostitution is legal.
Is Spitzer a model of lawyers produced by America? Yes. Corrupt to the core.