Posted on 03/12/2008 5:32:07 AM PDT by jimbo123
New York governor Eliot Spitzer resisted mounting calls for his resignation Tuesday, as he first tried to work out an agreement with prosecutors not to file criminal charges against him.
Mr. Spitzer is among the clients referenced in a federal complaint unsealed last week that charged four people with managing a prostitution ring, according to a federal complaint and two lawyers briefed on the case. He is alleged to have hired a prostitute through the ring last month in Washington, D.C., arranging for advance payments through a shell company and paying for the prostitute's train ride from New York to Washington.
Prosecutors are considering charging Mr. Spitzer with violations of the Mann Act, which bars transporting people across state lines for prostitution. Other possible charges could include structuring transactions to evade financial-reporting requirements; violating bans on interstate travel with intent to commit a crime; and helping an illegal entity to launder money. Some of the charges carry prison terms of more than five years.
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IMPEACH!
Let’s hope he manages to stay in office as long as he can. The worse it is for Hillary, and the better it is for the NY GOP and Senate. If Patterson becomes governor, he’ll be in there for 12 years. How do you beat a blind black man?
If this were you or I, we would already be in jail. This P.O.S. needs to go down.
He should be shown the same mercy he has shown. ZERO!!!
Twisting in the wind ... but in this instance, it’s by his own choice.
He RUINED others for no reasons.
The Feds should just indict him. He has zero to offer, zero.
Press charges ... then impeach.
Why should the Feds care whether or not he resigns? That should be between him, his fellow Democrats and the people of New York.
If I were a federal prosecutor, I would say: “No deal. If you want to continue to try to be governor while you’re being prosecuted, that’s your business. Personally, I think if I were in your shoes, I’d rather not have to be a criminal defendant while under the glare of the public spotlight as a sitting governor.”
This son of a bitch prosecuted and jailed people for doing the same thing he has done. Why should he get off without serving jail time, if that is the penalty for what he can be charged with?
Disclosure: As a philosophical matter, I do not happen to think discreet prostitution should be illegal. But as long as it is, and since he has put people away for engaging in it, I say nail him.
He is going down with the ship, just like Hillary!
There’s a unconfirmed umor going around, that Democrat Spitzer, has been ‘Client 9’...for 8 years!
I find myself wondering if he, other than by lack of acknowledgment, used his Offices to shield, or otherwise benefit, the ‘Emporers Club’?
Meaning he KNOWINGLY committed a crime. This is important. He's ruined the lives of people who committed no crime because he had a grudge or whatever against them. Now he's basically admitted that HE's a criminal.
'Course, it's kinda hard for a former AG pit bull to claim he was ignorant of participating in money laundering. Guess he's just bright enough to figure that out.
Were that it were only two.
Our justice system is blowing with the wind.
We are no longer a nation of laws, and common sense, but of selective enforcement, and political correctness, Hell bent on self-destruction.
Is he really blind?
That is THE question of the day.
It is not clear to me either why his resignation should be a bargaining chip that he can use to secure a sweetheart deal with the prosecutor. Personally, I hope he stays in office the rest of the year so that we can talk endlessly about the Culture of Corruption and let the Dems twist in the wind a bit. In fact, Spitzer has taken that issue off the table for this years election cycle. The Dems have lost a big issue that they successfully ran on in 2006. Life isn't good yet but it is getting better.
hmmm good question....With his own cane maybe???
You would have to run an incredibly politically correct capaign. That would be mind boggling...walking on eggshells...so as to not offend.
Drive home to all of the voters in this country, how totally corrupt and hypocritical the RATS are!
Elliot Spitzer is the poster child for the true RAT Party!
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