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Tanya Hollander, the woman charged with arranging prostitutes for the Emperor's Club VIP, appears to have been leading a secret double life as both a hippie-ish holistic healer and a power broker's madam. Tanya, as the media has been spelling her name, is alleged to have booked girls for New York Governor-for-the-moment Eliot Spitzer. Meanwhile, Tania, an alias listed in charges unsealed by the U.S. Attorney's office on March 6, appears to have maintained an extensive "health counseling" website (now taken down but cached here) and a MySpace page (last login February 8), where she describes herself as "a grounded,...

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Some politicians might have been able to survive a scandal involving close encounters with a prostitution ring. Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York will not, and should not. A politician who rises on the sword of righteousness must beware its double edge. As attorney general and governor, Spitzer did not just condemn official corruption and malfeasance, he attacked them with a vengeance. He made it personal. His rectitude became his calling card. Even if he escapes criminal prosecution, his credibility as a crusader is shot. He will be forever known as Client 9. In terms of sleaziness, Spitzer's paid liaison...

If New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigns, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton will be down one superdelegate. The scandal-tainted governor and his lieutenant governor, David Paterson, who is a Democratic National Committee member, are among the roughly 800 superdelegates who will also cast ballots at the August nominating convention. Both support Sen. Clinton. The DNC confirmed yesterday that New York would lose Mr. Spitzer's superdelegate slot if he resigns.

Spitzer himself sought to testify before a congressional subcommittee that hadn't invited him - possibly to give him an excuse to be away from home and see a hooker.......When Spitzer did show up Feb. 14, the day after he'd been with "Kristen" a prostitute, Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Alabama) said the typically unflappable Spitzer "came unglued" under questioning. "Now, it all makes sense," Bachus said. "I realize that he may have been a little sleep-deprived," Bachus said with a grin in an interview yesterday. The subcommittee had requested the NY State Insurance Superintendent (re New York's efforts to regulate bond insurance)...

Public Trust: The only thing more disgusting than allegations of Eliot Spitzer disgracing his family, state and party by patronizing a prostitution ring is his treating the governorship of New York as a bargaining chip.When New Yorkers elected Spitzer in 2006 with a historic 69% majority, they thought they were making a new Eliot Ness chief executive. And his hopes were said to include becoming the first Jewish president of the United States. But now Spitzer will enter the history books as "client number 9," as he is identified in a federal sting operation against the Emperor's Club, a sex...

While Jim Cramer is known for wearing his heart on his sleeve, the host of CNBC's "Mad Money" normally lets his emotions show over matters financial. In August, for example, he went ballistic at Ben Bernanke, pleading with the Fed chairman to lower interest rates in the face of widespread home foreclosures. But this morning, Cramer got verklempt not over the discount rate but at the falling fortunes of his friend Eliot Spitzer. Cramer went to Harvard Law with the embattled governor and his wife Silda, and has been a Spitzer defender in the face of criticism by many of...

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...

The fall of ...Spitzer holds many lessons, and the press will surely be examining them in coming months. But don't expect the press corps to delve into the biggest lesson of all--its own role as his enabler. Journalists have spent the past two days asking how a man of Mr. Spitzer's stature would allow himself to get involved in a prostitution ring. The answer...is clear. The former New York attorney general never believed normal rules applied to him, and his view was validated time and again by an adoring press. "You play hard, you play rough, and hopefully you don't...

NEW York's Governor spent up to $US80,000 ($85,000) on prostitutes who he asked to not wear a condom, it has been reported, as sordid details emerged in the sex scandal that threatens to hound him from office. Eliot Spitzer became embroiled in the scandal on Tuesday when it was reported that he was linked to a US probe into a prostitution ring. Mr Spitzer was caught on a listening device spending more than $4000 at the Emperor's Club call girl service. Anonymous officials involved with the case have now been reported by the Associated Press as saying that Mr Spitzer...

Eliot Spitzer's sordid saga is quickly unfolding into a classic lesson on the perils of hypocritical self-righteousness. But it also teaches the importance of the often underrated choice a leader makes in selecting his second in command. In a year promising many historic political firsts, David Paterson's likely ascendance would make him New York's first black Governor as well as the nation's first legally blind one. Unfortunately, his distinctiveness truly transcends these milestones. The lieutenant governor's unique law enforcement positions are beyond ultra-liberal -- they're ultra-moronic. As NY senate minority leader, he reacted to the 2000 acquittal of the four...

For a supporter, New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer (D) sure hasn't done Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) any favors lately. After all, it was Spitzer who, in the view of her advisers, caused the slide that put her where she is today, fighting from behind for the Democratic presidential nomination. A question about his proposal to let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses tripped her up in a debate in late October and ended 10 months of unquestioned dominance in the race for the nomination. Now, his apparent involvement with a prostitution ring has not only distracted attention from her...

A 22-year-old escort found on another call-girl Web site claimed to ABC News in a phone interview that Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been one of her customers two years ago when he was New York attorney general and that he was a nice guy who tipped well. "He didn't do anything that wasn't clean," she said, adding that she knew who he was because he had made calls from the attorney general's office in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The world is waiting to find out New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's fate. The governor is reported to be laying low, out of public view, following allegations that he spent thousands of dollars on "Kristen," the comely young brunette prostitute. Three New York newspapers want him to resign. On its editorial page, The New York Times said it was "hard to see how [Spitzer] will recover from this mess" but stopped short of calling for him to step down. Meanwhile newspapers around the world are commenting on the scandal. Here are some excerpts of press coverage around the globe:

This link is to the official "email the governor" in case any of you NY Freepers would like to encourage him to leave office ... Link: http://www.ny.gov/contact/index.html

"Client 9" T-shirts hit the Web Tue Mar 11, 2:59 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Who really is "Client 9?" The New York Times says it's the code name for New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in court papers that link him to a prostitution ring, but now anyone can be "Client 9" with T-shirts available online just a day after the scandal broke. From simply "Client 9" with a large lipstick smooch over the top to "Just Call Me CLIENT 9," designers on Web sites like www.cafepress.com and www.zazzle.com are cashing in on reports that Spitzer had hired a...

Tehran's police chief, Reza Zarei, has been arrested after he was found nude in a local brothel with six naked prostitutes, according to report on the Iranian Farda News. Farda News is a website said to be close to the mayor of Tehran and former chief of the police forces, Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf. Following the raid, Zarei stepped down from his post as police chief. The news of his arrest however was not reported by any official Iranian news agency. According to a popular Iranian website Gooya, the order to raid the brothel was given directly by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi...

March 11, 2008 -- Tough-as-nails former corporate lawyer Silda Wall Spitzer was fond of telling people that her name meant "Teutonic War goddess." Yesterday, as her eyes welled up with tears and she inhaled deeply beside her disgraced husband, Eliot, she looked more like a woman whose world had just come crashing down. It had. Silda Spitzer - an Ivy-League educated Baptist Southern belle who married into one of New York's City's richest and most prominent families - seemed to have led a charmed life.

1) Let's start at the ending: Is there any way Spitzer can survive this scandal and remain in office? Right now, it looks like he'll be gone within hours. Then again, it looked that way yesterday at this time. One of the few lasting legacies of the Clinton administration is that Bill Clinton successfully defined this particular kind of deviancy down. Politicians can now outlast sex scandals. If there's a major legal problem at the heart of the Spitzer scandal such as Spitzer laundering money to pay for his dalliances, then he's a dead demagogue walking. But if it's just...

Democrats privately floated another option, telling The Associated Press that Spitzer was considering what was almost unthinkable immediately after Monday's bombshell apology: hanging on. "If the public is fine, he'll stay," said a Democrat who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.