So ... Having Sex with Prostitutes is Okay Now?
No charges will be filed against Eliot Spitzer for his participation in a prostitution ring. According to the Wall Street Journal:
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said that investigators found no evidence that Mr. Spitzer or his office misused public or campaign funds for prostitution. Federal prosecutors typically don't prosecute clients of prostitution rings.
I suppose losing your job, your career, and being publicly humiliated is punishment enough. But couldn't they at least have made him pick up trash in Central Park for 80 hours?
Spitzer's statement was apologetic:
I appreciate the impartiality and thoroughness of the investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office, and I acknowledge and accept responsibility for the conduct it disclosed. I resigned my position as Governor because I recognized that conduct was unworthy of an elected official. I once again apologize for my actions.
Anybody want to set the odds for a Spitzer 2012 comeback? Lieberman-Spitzer could lead the Excommunication Party.
Prosecutors Won't Charge Spitzer in Prostitution Scandal [WSJ]
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Posted in: Eliot Spitzer
Yes please
He's going to be in charge of Obama's intern program.
"I don't see nothin' wrong with a little bump and grind...."
how much did this cost him - or his father? just askin.
Prostitution would generally be a state offense, not a federal offense prosecuted by the US Attorney's Office.
Did you learn ANYTHING at HLS, or are you hoping to breath some new life into the Mann Act?
@5: Structuring is still a federal crime. They could have easily got him on that.
Male pattern baldness makes many men do crazy things.
As lil' john would say "Ah skeet skeet skeet skeet"
"No charges will be flied"? Really?
"No charges will be flied"? Really?
Texas bar results went online two hours ago and we get a post on Eliot Spitzer?
Weak.
The New York State Attorney General's Office is a jarvis probe.
WTF is Texas and why should anyone care?!
Eliot Spitzer v. texas bar results?
ATL made the right call
Who cares about Texas? Flat, dusty, filled with pig like humanoids covered in makeup and cheap perfume.
"that conduct" or "the conduct" -- he still can't say what he did. If I were in the USAO, I would be livid. Come on Morgenthau, screw it to your old ADA.
If you aren't going to edit your posts before posting, you should at least leave your typographical errors for others to see instead of using commenters as your personal editing staff.
15, no that's New Jersey.
What's a "Jarvis probe"?
There were posts on much less populous states bar results, but Texas doesn't get any coverage as the third most populous state?
Why do attorneys from Texas have rivers of sewage running through their yards?
UVA2L
When are people going to realize that Texas is not worth mention because people there are fat, ugly, and stupid?
You have to take a test to practice law in Texas? Chuck Norris did not have to take a test.
20, size is not everything.
All you Texas haters are just jealous that we get to have cars and nice houses and yards and still have money left over to blow...especially those of us at Texas offices of NY-based firms that make the same dough as you NY'ers do. We work less, make the same and have a much more reasonable cost of living.
Spitzer looks like a gargoyle.
dont mess wit texas, y'all
25 - But you still have to live in Texas. That's gotta suck.
28 - Not nearly as much as paying $2000+ a month for a closet.
what's the point of having a yard if you have to slather yourself in Deet and put up with nasty humidity just to suffer through your own bbq?
In California you can have yards and nice cars and money left over, although you might have to live in 1400sf (by the beach). I'd rather have that than some 4000sf McMansion in some godforsaken, soulless TTTexas suburb.
6 - what is "structuring"? Thought Spitzer just partook, it's not like he ran the ring.
There are people sitting in jail right now because that motherfucker put 'em there on structuring charges. They had him dead to rights on one, and he walks?
Fuck ethics. From now on, if I don't think I'll get caught, I'll sell stolen guns to illegal aliens to finance my snorting-coke-off-underage-hookers habit with nary a thought.
The man paid for sex, he's been through enough. I'm sure he could have gotten it for free with an intern. Poor Eliot.
31: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring
--6
Guys in my high school structured all of the time and nobody thought anything of it.
SF to Proposition K
Please. Fire. Elie
Didn't he order the girl to go from NY to meet him in DC? Surely the Fed could come up with something to charge him with based on that.
32: I would like to subscribe to your newsletter and/or buy your DVD.
Dude, you're grouping Spitzer and Lieberman together? What exactly does (a) hiring a prostitute and cheating on your wife have to do with (b) following one's (perhaps misguided) conscience?
WTF?
what's wrong about paying for sex? men do it all the time. it's "called marriage." or, in the beginning, a "girlfriend."
fucking skanks...that's why i prefer sucking off dudes.
-ex sullivan lawyer
29. True...
- New Yorker
15 - My guess is you're from a shitty state like delaware, new hampshire, conn, md, maine, co.... really any state except CA, NY, or TX. Texas has the hottest women in the country; it has the best climate in the country; it has the best music scene in the country; it has more money in the form of oil than your middle-class brain could even fathom; it has the hottest women in the country; it has firms that pay just as much as new york firms but that don't treat their lawyers like shit; it doesn't have a state income tax (see comment about oil); it has great universities; it's devoid of liberal antiAmerican socialist democrats; and last but not least it was its own country. Fuck you.
15 - My guess is you're from a shitty state like delaware, new hampshire, conn, md, maine, co.... really any state except CA, NY, or TX. Texas has the hottest women in the country; it has the best climate in the country; it has the best music scene in the country; it has more money in the form of oil than your middle-class brain could even fathom; it has the hottest women in the country; it has firms that pay just as much as new york firms but that don't treat their lawyers like shit; it doesn't have a state income tax (see comment about oil); it has great universities; it's devoid of liberal antiAmerican socialist democrats; and last but not least it was its own country. Fuck you.
The people in NY all look like large rodents with an accent that one would expect to hear out of the mouth of a rat if it emerged from the sewer and magically had the power of speech.
I find it amusing the board is mocking the appearance of Texans when a topless photo of a hideous NYer is at the top of the post.
43/44 - yeah, but it's still not new york
TTTexas
43/44 can't be from Texas with that potty mouth
NYC has produced its share of hotties. Alan Dershowitz, Woody Allen...
43/44 --- McCain won TTTexas, along with the other backward redneck trailer trash infested hellholes like the fabulous West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, S. Carolina ... ad nauseum. Have your crappy McMansion and "cheap cost of living" in Texas because you get what you pay for and in spades. I'll stay right here in the CAPITOL OF THE WORLD, NEW YORK CITY.
That goes for you too 25! TTTexas is cheap for a reason.
50 obviously doesn't travel
52 -- I've been to more places than you I bet ... from countries in the Middle East to South Africa and its neighbors to Europe to the Asian subcontinent. NY is the capitol of the world and the rest of the world knows it. Sorry to break the news to ya so late in your life.
53 - then you just have bad taste/no taste or feel intimidated when confronted by culture, wealth, attractive people, etc. Or we could simply have a difference of opinion.
I think you are a bit confused. NY is the center of culture, wealth, attractive people, etc. That's why I like it rather than places like TTTexas and the other pathetic redneck McCain strongholds. Just go look at a map that has the election results on it and see what shitholes McCain won.
55=loud, overweight, unrefined features, large pores, petit-bourgeois
31- assuming you are serious, structuring is the intentional "chopping up" of large cash transactions in order to avoid the mandatory reporting requirements of any cash transaction in exess of 10 thousand dollars. of course, this whole thing was so stupid-- he is literally a billionaire- he could have easily taken out several thousand in cash "for spending money" every few months without raising any suspicion, and then paid hookers directly with the cash, rather than these convoluted wire transfer transactions.
56 = you couldn't be more wrong, my dear chap. Have I told you that my holiday party is simply legendary and I am the assistant social director at my very important co-op?
LMAO! Are we going to have one of those "who gets the last word" contests? I love those. The only person I ever lose to is my sister. No one can get the last word in with her.
56, did you just write LMAO? And "last word contests" with your sister? What are you, like 12?
58 - you made my point better than I ever could. Ta
The latest report out of DC - Elie Mystal will be the Obama Whitehouse pogue. He will also serve as the official decanter at State Dinners. I hope this means that he leaves ATL.
Question - Why has my work ISP been banned from commenting? I made a comment about boycotting ATL and it gets deleted and my ability to make comments removed. Elie and/or Lat, you got to chill the fuck out. Relax. Your over reaction and detour into useless information is bad enough, but censorship? Really???
62 - i was denied the ability to comment on one of lat's posts recently (it called up an error referring to "rudeness.php") when all i did was say something supportive about lat's contribution and made a :( emoticon about mystal.
first!
first!
50/53 - Grow up. You sound like you spent middle school getting beated up in the boys' locker room.
50/53 - Grow up. You sound like you spent middle school getting beaten up in the boys' locker room.
67, 50/53 sounds like that because he did get beat up in the boys' locker room in middle school. As a matter of fact he probably is still in middle school - see post 58 by same poster.
Spitzer 2016 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!