Comments on: Client 9 from outer space: Spitzer news open thread

By: Anonymous Attorney

Anonymous Attorney — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:07:39 +0000

Ara,

Elliot Mess is good.

The actual New York Post headline is good, too:

“Ho No”

By: Jim Thomlonson

Jim Thomlonson — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:08:33 +0000

“…but political pundits who took to heart Spitzer’s promise that he’d keep corruption and scandal out of Albany were stunned to learn of the news.”

Maybe his high priced attorneys can spin this to show how dedicated he was to his duties as governor. He was so dedicated to the cause of removing prostitution from NY that he arranged to have a prostitute leave NY and come to Washington, thereby decreasing the number of prostitutes in NY by one. If only all politicians would show this level of dedication!!

By: Ara

Ara — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:20:13 +0000

Stephen Colbert notifies the New York Post that he has dibs on “Elliot Mess.”

By: Rick Caird

Rick Caird — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:29:55 +0000

You guys have all missed the positive side of this. You should note that Spitzer supported his state by importing a NY girl to Washington rather than using a local girl. Hence, he was able to support the NYS economy while out of state. Now, that certainly is commendable.

Rick

By: Western Justice

Western Justice — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:13:37 +0000

America likes to build up its heroes so they can then tear them down. Such a pathetic fall from grace

By: SmartDoc

SmartDoc — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:44:58 +0000

Rule #1 in Life:

Don’t have huge amounts of mysterious cash payments flowing interstate hither and yon from your financial accounts. The Feds pick up on this immediately, and you suddenly have a giant bullseye painted on your back for the FBI and IRS.

Spitzer is going to be living from this point forwsrd in a World of Pain.

By: Ron Konkamah

Ron Konkamah — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:25:26 +0000

For the last 6 months, out of annoyance and distaste at his antics, I’ve been referring to him as “the one-term Governor of NY”…..but DAMN !!!…he’s not even going to make a full term !

Goodbye, Eliot. Go bully your dog, or browbeat the gardener. New York won’t miss you.

By: Supremacy Claus

Supremacy Claus — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:11:54 +0000

I object to this trivial lawyer gotcha. This illegality where no harm occurs may even violate Lawrence v Texas.

He will not get charged for the damage done to the economy by his unjust attacks on productive sectors of the economy, as NY Attorney General.

This gotcha approach represents lawyer bad faith. The infraction is a pretext, a false use of a trivial infraction.

I suggest ending all immunities for the huge damage done in litigation.

On the other hand, he used pretextual gotchas. He deserves this fate.

It reminds me of Clinton. He was hated for raising taxes, but had immunity for that giant theft. His pals, the trial lawyers, hounded him on a trivial deposition misleading statement.

The public always pays. In the case of Clinton, gotcha consumed 100’s of hours of his time for his defense. The result? 9/11.

One wonders how the public will pay for this small minded lawyer persecution of Spitzer.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:02:09 +0000

Ironically, it appears that the feds found the prostitution service because they were suspicious of Spitzer's large payments to their front.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:45:32 +0000

Dealbreaker is running good stuff. And on another blog, a commenter imagines the phone call Spitzer must have made to Hillary Clinton at 3 a.m.