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Hooker bookers for the call-girl ring that brought down Eliot Spitzer are ready to open their little black books to make a deal with the feds.The flesh peddlers are poised to give up the identities of their well-heeled johns as part of plea negotiations.... The potential public humiliation is just the beginning - the likely powerful, wealthy johns could be in hot water if they embezzled or laundered money to pay for their trysts......The feds may seek help from Emperors Club VIP employees to determine who's on the operation's list of clients and how they paid for their "dates." Investigators...

Greetings from ground zero -- the Philadelphia suburbs where the epic battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be decided in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary on April 22. Current scuttlebutt -- a frail reed in this mercurial race -- is that the multiracial metropolises of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia will go for Obama, while the vast rural and small-town heartland will endorse Clinton, whose family roots are in coal-country Scranton. The cloud of feminist cant about Hillary's struggling candidacy has been noxious. "Media misogyny has reached an all-time high," screeched the National Organization for Women in a press release titled "Ignorance...

Disgraced Gov. Spitzer ... a millionaire, was hopping into bed with harlots for as long as 10 years and traveled as far as Florida for call-girl trysts... The prostitute-patronizing former prosecutor spent today huddled with top aides and lawyers in his Fifth Avenue apartment - trying to arrange a plea deal under which he’d resign his office but avoid prison time - as he desperately clung to power despite growing cries for his departure, even among fellow Democrats.

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,...

<p>March 12, 2008 -- Posted at 8:38 a.m. Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to resign and will begin notifying top state officials of his decision just after 9 a.m., The Post has learned.</p>

The thing is, Eliot Spitzer is a crook. I’m not referring to the current prostitution scandal. I’m not referring to the scandal last year involving his senior aides and the leaking of confidential police information to the Albany Times Union. I’m not referring to the threatening phone call he made to the august John Whitehead, retired head of Goldman Sachs, who had the temerity to question a case Spitzer was building against an old friend of Whitehead’s. I’m referring to his conduct dating back to 1994, when he designed a complex scheme involving loans and real estate and collateralized apartments to evade...

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had at least seven or eight liaisons over the last several years with prostitutes supplied by an international call girl ring based in New Jersey, according to sources familiar with the investigation into Spitzer's relationship with the ring. The liaisons between Spitzer and a number of different prostitutes occurred around the country, including in Washington, D.C., and Florida, the sources said. For each encounter, Spitzer paid several thousand dollars, the sources said.

NEW YORK — New York Republicans will seek to impeach Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer if he does not resign within 48 hours, New York Assembly Republican leader James Tedisco told FOX News exclusively. "We believe it is an illegal activity he has been involved with," Tedisco said speaking on FOX's "Hannity & Colmes." "We're going to give him 24 to 48 hours to do the right thing, and the right thing is to resign because he has been compromised. If that's not the case ... we're going to ask the speaker to start impeachment proceedings," Tedisco said Monday night. -snip-

One might call it Shakespearian if there were a shred of nobleness in the story of Eliot Spitzer's fall. There is none. Governor Spitzer, who made his career by specializing in not just the prosecution, but the ruin, of other men, is himself almost certainly ruined. Mr. Spitzer's brief statement yesterday about a "private matter" surely involves what are widely reported to be his activities with an expensive prostitution ring discovered by the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. Those who believe Eliot Spitzer is getting his just desserts may be entitled to that view, but...

Spitzer used George Fox as his alias in his prostitute hookup; Fox is a high-powered hedge-fund manager, and political donor - one of Spitzer's best buddies. Spitzer used George Fox checking into a hotel to rendezvous with the call girl......Fox donated $140,000 to Spitzer's campaigns back to 1998, disclosure records show. He travels in well-heeled circles, with movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Cablevision's Jim Dolan and actress Bernadette Peters at fund-raisers for Spitzer......Fox's founded Titan Advisors 16 years ago, according to its Web site. Fox began as a Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange and Commodity Exchange floor trader. He created his...

ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer viciously berated a state lawmaker, saying, "I am a f - - - ing steamroller" who will crush the assemblyman and anyone else who stands in his way, The Post has learned. Sources told The Post yesterday that an enraged Spitzer bitterly denounced Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco last week after the Schenectady-based Republican called to complain that he had been cut out of negotiations on a just-announced proposed new state ethics law. "Listen, I'm a f - - - ing steamroller, and I'll roll over you and anybody else," Democrat Spitzer angrily yelled at Tedisco...

A disgraced Gov. Spitzer has been publicly and privately described as a ruthless, sanctimonious, amoral man whose righteous public persona was regularly contradicted by the realities of how he conducted his political life. Spitzer described himself as a "f- - -ing steamroller" after less than a month in office to Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco who then to an associate, "This guy scares me." "There's something wrong with Spitzer, something wrong in his head," Even friends described Spitzer as a man with a frightening - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-like - transformation after a perceived personal slight or policy disagreement....

Wrap up of what people have to say about the Eliot Spitzer debacle. As you'd imagine, a lot of people have an awful lot to say. Ahhh, schadenfreude.

THE SEAMY, STEAMY DETAILS OF LUSTY NIGHT IN ROOM 871 She was waiting for him near the king-sized bed in Room 871, a stunningly sexy, petite brunette....Client-9 had paid good money - $4,300 - for what would be their few hours of steamy sex together at Washington, DC's historic Mayflower Hotel, in a deal brokered by her NY pimp. When her excited, distinguished-looking john arrived to the cozy room, she text-messaged her madam to say he was there. The alleged madam in Brooklyn, next heard from "Kristen" less than 21/2 hours later to say the john was gone and that...

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat, has riled conservatives for years, and news of his self-induced downfall has produced "widespread disgust," according to one pro-family group. Just last month, another conservative group sought prayers to stop Spitzer's pro-abortion crusade. "More than any governor, Spitzer has tried to destroy the man-woman marriage definition and to license homosexual 'marriages,' Randy Thomasson, president of the California-based Campaign for Children and Families, said on Monday. "As Attorney General, he harassed pro-life crisis pregnancy centers," Thomasson said, noting that as news was breaking about Spitzer's alleged involvement in a prostitution ring, Spitzer was scheduled...

"Oedipus is funny -- that's the structure of funny," Alan Alda's character declares in the film Crimes and Misdemeanors. "'Who did this terrible thing to our city?' 'Oh my god, it was me.' See? That's funny." Judging by such a standard, the staggering news that ethics-crusader New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has shattered his political career because he couldn't resist the allure of a high-priced hooker, is high comedy indeed. No doubt, there is an element of tragedy in this tale. Spitzer's wife Silda, who was forced to stand by his side in a hasty press briefing yesterday afternoon, as...

NEW YORK - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has told senior advisers that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, The New York Times reported Monday, citing an anonymous top administration official. Spitzer, who is married with three daughters, was scheduled to make an announcement Monday afternoon. Spitzer officials wouldn't immediately comment on the story. The Times reported that a person with knowledge of the governor's role believes the governor is identified as a client in court papers. Four people allegedly connected to a high-end prostitution ring called Emperors Club VIP were arrested last week. The Web site of the Emperors...

AMID the holiday shopping season last November, Gov. Spitzer an nounced the state would begin collecting sales taxes from New Yorkers who shopped online. An immediate firestorm erupted, with critics dubbing the proposal "the Grinch Tax."

They've murdered children, set deadly fires and destroyed lives in moments of rage. They went to prison and could have spent the rest of their lives behind bars. Instead, they are free. Dozens of cold-blooded killers who repeatedly begged to be released have in the last year gotten their wish in record numbers.

--SNIP--Peter Pope, Spitzer's policy director, will be questioned about the role he played along with Spitzer Counsel and the governor's first deputy secretary, in a statement signed by Spitzer aide Darren Dopp July 22......The Commission on Public Integrity determined Dopp's testimony appeared to contradict his sworn statement. (Dopp is under investigation for possible perjury.)

The governor had the right idea on immigrant licenses, but his political malpractice has alienated both sides in this overheated debate Gov. Eliot Spitzer has dug a political hole so deep on driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants that the issue may be irretrievably entombed. That would be a shame. In this state, about a million undocumented immigrants live off the books and many drive without licenses or insurance. Bringing them into the system, while making it more secure overall, is the pragmatic thing to do. Spitzer's objective is sound, his intentions honorable. But that's not enough. Ideas have to be...

Once they got driver's licenses under Gov. Spitzer's plan, illegal immigrants could arm themselves to the teeth simply by lying about their status, gun experts said Thursday. "They could definitely get shotguns and rifles," said Thomas King, executive director of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association. King said illegal immigrants could simply go to gun shops, use the licenses as ID, pick out the long guns of their choice and attest on Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives forms that they are citizens or legal residents. As long as a computer check showed the customer had no...

Washington, DC –Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced that it has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a New York taxpayer in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Suffolk County against New York Governor Eliot Spitzer over a new policy implemented on September 21, 2007 that will “give all New Yorkers the opportunity to apply for driver’s licenses without regard to immigration status” (Staudenraus v. Spitzer, Index No. 07-33872). According to New York State law, with respect to driver licenses, the DMV Commissioner “shall require that the applicant provide his...

<p>WASHINGTON - New York's plan to create three types of driver's licenses, including one for illegal immigrants, has everyone talking _ everyone except the state's Democratic senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer.</p> <p>New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a fellow Democrat, announced over the weekend that he had struck a deal with federal homeland security officials to create a three-tiered state system of licenses.</p>

In raising concerns that Governor Spitzer's choice to lead the Metropolitan Transportation Authority belonged to a private social club believed to be exclusively white, Albany lawmakers have opened an issue that may be difficult to cap. Among the Harmonie Club's roughly 1,100 current members is Mr. Spitzer's father, Bernard Spitzer, who joined the secretive Upper East Side institution 30 years ago, five years after the newly installed MTA chairman, Dale Hemmerdinger, was accepted. Before he was confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Hemmerdinger reluctantly resigned his membership last week after some state lawmakers said it was inappropriate for him to take...

Illegal immigrants who try to apply for driver’s licenses in Erie and Niagara counties will be subject to arrest — and deportation — under a plan being developed by the two county clerks and law enforcement officials. The move is the latest — and potentially most serious — challenge to Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer’s new policy to permit illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses if they possess a valid foreign passport and other identification. “I’m being asked to look aside to something that’s illegal, and I’m not going to do that,” Niagara County Clerk Wayne Jagow said Wednesday. Jagow and...

County clerk sues DMV; opposing bill passes in Senate as GOP pledges to fight Spitzer plan ALBANY -- Opponents of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to allow illegal immigrants to gain driver's licenses turned up the pressure on the first-term Democrat on Monday, with Rensselaer County's elected clerk filing a private lawsuit, Assembly and Senate Republicans threatening taxpayer-funded litigation and several hundred citizens rallying against the governor's "unilateral" act. "We are going to do everything that we can to keep that from happening," said Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, R-Brunswick, in supporting a bill passed Monday night to derail the...

Democrats fear Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan to grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens has endangered Democrat candidates across the state - even the presidential prospects of Hillary Clinton........ and is producing "a mass exodus" away from Democrat candidates that may lead to unexpected losses in November's local elections.

Democratic White House front-runner Hillary Clinton stood up for Gov. Spitzer's efforts to pull illegal immigrants "out of the shadows" - but stopped short of backing his controversial plan to grant them driver's licenses. Clinton told a newspaper in New Hampshire, home to the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, that Spitzer's got the right idea. "I know exactly what Gov. Spitzer's trying to do and it makes a lot of sense, because he's trying to get people out of the shadows," Clinton told the editorial board of the Nashua Telegraph. "He's trying to say, 'Okay, come forward and we will give you...

COLONIE -- Gov. Eliot Spitzer revealed today his next budget will feature a return to his pitch to give $1,000-per-student income tax deductions for parents who send their children to religious and private schools. The governor's commitment came in a speech to the New York State Coalition of Independent & Religious Schools. His plan drew applause from the 200 representatives at a conference here. Spitzer said the budget he unveils in January will be "difficult" to plan because of a looming $4 billion deficit. But he promised to propose the $1,000 income tax deduction, and said the state will come...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- A new opinion poll indicates that a majority of New Yorkers oppose a plan proposed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer to allow illegal aliens to obtain a driver's license. According to a poll from the Siena Research Institute, only 22 percent of voters supported the plan, while 72 percent are opposed. Sixty-four percent of those surveyed agreed with the statement that the change in policy would allow illegal aliens to obtain a New York driver's license and pose a national security risk. Only 25 percent agreed with Spitzer's contention that the change will significantly reduce the number of...

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, noncitizens who legally obtained New York State driver’s licenses have been given licenses stamped “temporary visitor” along with the date their visa expired. No longer. The Spitzer administration three weeks ago quietly eliminated the state policy that required the special identification stamp on the driver’s licenses for noncitizens who are legally, though temporarily, residing in the United States. The policy change also eliminated the accompanying expiration date that was intended to show when the person’s legal right to be in the United States ended — raising the chance that a valuable form...

Citing potential problems with terrorist attacks and higher insurance rates, Rochester area Republicans Tuesday condemned Gov. Eliot Spitzer's proposal to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. At a meeting in the lobby of the Monroe County Office Building, Assemblyman Bill Reilich of Greece called the plan a "horrific situation." Under the changes, Spitzer made it possible for illegal immigrants to get a license if they have a valid foreign passport. Previously, wither a Social Security number or a letter from the Social Security Administration stating the applicant wasn't eligible for a Social Security number was required. "This is nothing...

**** Gov. Spitzer's ill-considered decision to give illegal aliens driver's licenses is another step toward anarchy NAME REDACTED Astoria **** If Social Security numbers were the only ID acceptable by Boards of Election.....(Spitzer) may lose hundreds of thousands of registered Democrats, as opposed to 500,000 illegal voters for next year's election and the 2010 census. Deer Park **** Give Spitzer a smack in the back of the head for this dopey, moronic idea....let the federal government put its people in the DMV and arrest and deport illegals. Toms River, N.J. **** I applaud DMV clerks who have refused to hand...

Assembly Leader Tedisco called on Spitzer and the DMV to scrap the license plan-or face legal action and a new law to block it.....the Conservative Party unveiled a powerful new ad contrasting US policy along the Mexican border (where illegals are arrested) with Spitzer's plan to grant them licenses. Last month, Spitzer announced NY would provide free chemotherapy to illegals, despite a federal directive prohibiting states from seeking federal reimbursement. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates NY pays out $4.5 billion more than it collects from illegals' tax revenue (for health care, education and incarceration).

ALBANY - The images and commentary aren't subtle: Osama bin Laden hanging out in a New York City taxi driver's seat, a blog headlined "Moron Spitzer Forges Ahead with Licenses for Illegals." Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to make it easier for undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses has been roundly assailed. "Crazy," said a county clerk. A threat to national security, said Rep. Randy Kuhl (R-N.Y.). A Poughkeepsie Journal editorial took a more measured approach, but still noted "taxpayers have a right to be both perplexed and outraged" over Spitzer's plan. In the Capitol, the political discourse has been more...

October 8, 2007 -- WHEN I got my first driver's license at 16, my parents told me that having a license is a privilege that I should take very seriously. It looks like young Eliot Spitzer never got that Civics 101 lecture.

It's time to "fight fire with fire." That's Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's message to his fellow Democrat, Gov. Spitzer, when it comes to dealing with the governor's arch political enemy, and New York's top Republican, Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. (snip) The speaker yesterday urged the governor to exercise his right to appoint a Moreland commission, which would have subpoena power and the ability to investigate "whatever it is they want to look into." "I think it's appropriate to do the same thing [the Senate Republicans] are doing, which is basically to do a fishing expedition," Silver said. "It's tit...

Spitzer: Rolling back post-9/11 ID safeguards. According to the National Immigration Law Center, seven of the 9/11 hijackers used fraudulent means to acquire legal ID in Virginia.....the terrorists paid illegal aliens to falsely vouch for the terrorists' residency, to get those Ids. This allowed the killers to move about our country freely, to rent vehicles - and to board the planes they used to slaughter 3,000 innocents. ......the governor's plan presents a clear and present danger to the safety and security of our entire nation and a clear violation of state law: Section 502, subsection 1 of the Vehicle and...

The NY State Association of County Clerks voted overwhelmingly to oppose Gov Spitzer's policy change, calling it "ill-advised" and charging that it would "pose significant security concerns . . . create unneeded confusion . . . [and] lead to a significant influx of illegal immigration"..... nearly every other state has tightened restrictions on licenses, the most universally accepted form of identity verification in America, since 9/11.

Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer blasted Republicans for "politics of fear and selfishness" in opposing his plans to allow illegal immigrants to get New York driver's licenses and to provide health insurance to all children. "What has happened is that the politics of fear and selfishness has replaced the politics of common sense and responsibility," Spitzer said at Fordham University Tuesday. "We are witnessing knee-jerk reactions to sound policies that have no business being politicized or polluted by fear-mongering rhetoric." Spitzer was responding to Republican Assembly leader James Tedisco, who said Spitzer's license plan in particular will be welcomed by Osama...

*** Spitzer cares more about obliging special-interest groups than law-abiding New Yorkers....and may very well be in violation of federal law. The Bronx *** I voted for Spitzer, thinking he would actually make a difference...... I have a feeling he will be a one-term governor. Yorktown Heights *** Let's see Spitzer get into an accident with an illegal immigrant. Guess what? They don't have car insurance. Manhattan *** Why is he more concerned with the travel convenience of illegal aliens than with the lives, safety and cost to citizen voters and their families? Middle Village

The DMV, says Gov. Spitzer, "is not the INS" (He was referring to the old Immigration and Naturalization).... and his rewriting of DMV rules just adds to the whole mess.

Illegal immigrants in New York will be allowed to obtain New York State driver's licenses under a new policy that the Spitzer administration is expected to announce shortly, a source said. "The facts show that restricting immigrants's access to driver's licenses does nothing to improve security," a spokeswoman for Mr. Spitzer, Christine Anderson, told the Associated Press in October. "All it does is drive immigrants into the shadows, creating a class of people with no public records." Opponents of the proposed changes said restrictions on giving licenses to illegal immigrants help to prevent identity theft and thwart terrorist attacks. They...

Spitzer's Real Scandal “Eliot Spitzer is like the good-looking bouncer in a bar, who is secretly dealing drugs,” explained forensic microbiologist Mike Copass. We were in a San Diego bar this July, down near the water in Ocean Beach. Copass had acted as a facilitator of San Diego’s 9/11 Citizen’s Grand Jury, an extra-legal group which mounted a mock trial in April. Copass has degrees from Stanford and Harvard, and an eager glint in his eye. Despite his preppy appearance, Copass makes some pretty radical allegations: that Eliot Spitzer acted as a firewall, preventing public disclosure of his friends’ roles...

It’s been a swift fall from grace for New York’s new governor, Eliot Spitzer, who took office in January with 69 percent of the vote and (many think) visions of a future presidential run. Spitzer vowed, as a candidate, that “on Day One” of his administration, “everything changes.” But little has changed in scandal-rich Albany. Spitzer is now involved in an affaire some are calling Troopergate, and the governor is being compared to Richard Nixon. [Full disclosure: I worked as Policy Director for Tom Suozzi, the Nassau County Executive who ran against Spitzer for the Democratic nomination.] Spitzer stormed into...

Corruption: New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the one president ever forced to resign seem to have a lot in common. But at least Nixon waited a little while before using the tools of state against his political enemies. "I believe for the first time in the history of this state," declared New York State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, that the executive branch "has seen fit to abuse the power of that office to spy and track and attempt to really destroy what apparently the governor's office considers a political rival." After conducting an investigation, Spitzer's fellow Democrat, New...

SENATE Republicans are looking to subpoena records held by Gov. Spitzer and his 82-year-old megamillionaire father, Bernard, dealing with a controversial $5 million loan that helped Spitzer get elected attorney general in 1998, The Post has learned.

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York's attorney general issued a report Monday recommending disciplinary action be considered against Gov. Eliot Spitzer's office for releasing information about a top legislator's use of state aircraft. "The governor's office planned to obtain information concerning Senator (Joseph) Bruno's use of state aircraft for the purpose of giving this information to the media," Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wrote in his report on the scandal. Bruno, the Senate majority leader, had accused Spitzer's office of political espionage. Spitzer, nationally known for forcing reforms on Wall Street during his eight years as the state's attorney general, had no...