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Eliot Spitzer, the former Governor of New York who resigned after his sexual exploits with numerous prostitutes was exposed, is considering a run for the Democrat nomination, to be the Democratic candidate for State Comptroller. Thomas DiNalopi, the current Comptroller who was elected to that position via the state legislature after Alan Hevesi resigned (another Democrat violating the law), is considered a weak Democratic candidate for the 2010 elections, and thus Spitzer might be an appealing candidate. New York is one of the most unstable governments in the Union, as the state is deep in red ink, we have one...

Eliot Spitzer, who stepped down from the governor's office amid scandal, is now strongly considering a run for state comptroller.... Spitzer has in recent weeks had discussions with some Democratic donors and insiders about the position currently held by Tom DiNapoli.... A Democrat who spoke with Spitzer said, "He's seriously thinking about it." "He wants to run if he can," said another source. "He's still talking about it." Gov. Paterson backed the idea.

Eliot Spitzer's potentially explosive secret e-mail account he used during his days as New York's attorney general and governor could be made public in a court ruling within days. Amid claims of a two-year cover-up, a low-key legal fight has sought hundreds of e-mails from a private account that Spitzer operated "surreptitiously" at his offices to avoid a public paper trail, court documents claimed. Some of the e-mails in the account wound up as the basis of media reports about Spitzer's role in the "Troopergate" scandal this year, in which his office assigned state troopers to dig up dirt on...

A young star observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope appears to be home to a wild – and young – planetary system that shares some of the frenetic dynamics thought to have shaped the early years of our own solar system. The Spitzer observations suggest young planets circling the star are disturbing smaller comet-like bodies, causing them to collide and kick up a huge halo of dust.

very ironic announcement that I just got in my Harvard email announcing a forthcoming lecture: HARVARD UNIVERSITY EDMOND J. SAFRA FOUNDATION CENTER FOR ETHICS Eliot Spitzer, former Governor and Attorney General of New York, will deliver a public lecture as part of the 2009/10 Labs Lectures on the Question of Institutional Corruption. Thursday, November 12 at 4:30pm Emerson Hall, Room 105 25 Quincy Street, Cambridge This is a ticketed event.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has... observed infrared light coming from one such disk around a young star, called LRLL 31, over a period of five months. To the astronomers' surprise, the light varied in unexpected ways, and in as little time as one week... One possible explanation is that a close companion to the star -- either a star or a developing planet -- could be shoving planet-forming material together, causing its thickness to vary as it spins around the star... said James Muzerolle of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland[,] "This is a unique, real-time glimpse into the...

Ashley Dupre -- the escort who toppled a governor -- is sick of hiding. Eighteen months after the scandal that took down Eliot Spitzer, the 24-year-old wants to become a singer, a mother, an author -- anything but that girl. "Everyone likes an underdog story, and everyone likes a comeback," she said during an exclusive interview and fashion shoot with The Post. "I'm the poster child for redemption."

The high-paid escort who notoriously romped with disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer has a message to New York ladies: You're no better than me! "Get real and get over yourself," Ashley Dupre bluntly tells all the women out there who "just love to judge."

(AP) - Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York, has a teaching position at City College. Mr. Spitzer, who resigned in a prostitution scandal in March 2008, is an adjunct professor in the political science department. Ellis Simon, a spokesman for the Manhattan college, says the three-hour class is called "Law and Public Policy.''

Mark Sanford is trying to win his wife’s forgiveness, said George Rush and Joanna Malloy in the New York Daily News, but another married governor could be headed toward “fresh hell.” A “high-end escort” who's already said she had rough sex with then–New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is claiming that she also had three sex “dates” with another of our “most prominent governors”—call him Gov. X—whose wife is “prominent in her own right.” This story has to be “prompting a variety of quiet phone calls” among some governors' staff, said Moe Lane in RedState. As for the rest of us,...

No wonder Ed is always smiling. Just another Dem who can't keep his pecker in his pants.. Man, Ed Rendell is so screwed -- literally. I don't normally listen to Opie & Anthony looking for breaking news, but astonishingly that's what I just got. A few minutes ago, the cast of the show on Sirius XM radio were interviewing Kristin Davis -- not the one from Sex and the City, the former Manhattan Madam who spent four months in Rikers in connection with the Eliot Spitzer hooker scandal from last year. There's been quite a bit of speculation that her...

Another gubernatorial sex scandal may be looming. Even as South Carolina's Mark Sanford waits to see whether his wife, Jenny, forgives his romp in the pampas, a New York call girl could plunge one of America's most prominent governors into a fresh hell. In March, we told you about a high-end escort who claimed that former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had gotten overly aggressive during some kinky role-play (a charge Spitzer's lawyer called "outrageous and defamatory"). Now the elegant blond courtesan, whom we'll continue to call "Annie," is talking about three "dates" she allegedly had with another state's chief...

On March 13, 2008, we had this to say when then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat, resigned after getting caught patronizing high-priced prostitutes: His fall "reminds voters that politicians comprise the last class of people worthy of the deification they are afforded. ... Mr. Spitzer's downfall underscores how politicians care less about public service than getting elected and re-elected, and amassing power with all its corrupting influences. It shows how the incessant flattery of journalists and regal treatment of subordinates creates egomaniacs who believe themselves entitled to special treatment and exempt from everyday laws. Most of all, it emphasizes...

South Carolina's chief executive isn't the first to earn headlines for acting odd. A look at governors' unusual behavior: -Mark Sanford; South Carolina governor, 2003 to present: Sanford disappeared last week on a secretive vacation, out of pocket from staff, state leaders and even his wife. He had also once put a "spending clock" outside his office to show how quickly a proposed budget would spend state money, and brought pigs to the House chamber to protest pork he said lawmakers left in a budget. -Earl Long; governor of Louisiana, 1939-1940, 1948-1952, 1956-1960: Long had an affair with a stripper,...

The state inspector general released nearly 2,000 pages of documents on Tuesday related to his just-completed investigation into the State Ethics Commission and its reputed leaks of information to the Spitzer administration. But the most revealing records in those documents chronicle a visit that the inspector general, Joseph Fisch, made to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer late last year. Mr. Fisch sought to interview Mr. Spitzer as part of the inquiry and found him hostile, frustrated over his experience in Albany and with his legendary temper in full bloom. The transcript of the interview, which had not previously been released, offered...

The kerfuffle about current New York Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Stephen Friedman's purchase of some Goldman stock while the Fed was involved in reviewing major decisions about Goldman's future—well-covered by the Wall Street Journal here and here—raises a fundamental question about Wall Street's corruption. Just as the millions in AIG bonuses obscured the much more significant issue of the $70 billion-plus in conduit payments authorized by the N.Y. Fed to AIG's counterparties, the small issue of Friedman's stock purchase raises very serious issues about the competence and composition of the Federal Reserve of New York, which is the most powerful...

Arianna Huffington, an internet hate-site owner, and Eliot Spitzer, a whoremonger, liar and terminally arrogant prick, being given air-time on CNBC's "Squawk Box" this morning. I'm glad the mute button is working on my remote... Rick Santelli must be turning purple over there in the Chicgao trading pit.

The federal government has asked an appeals court to reverse a ruling ordering the public release of sealed documents in the prostitution probe that led to the resignation of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Government lawyers filed papers Tuesday with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing a judge was wrong to order the release of wiretap materials in the criminal case that ousted Spitzer. The government says the materials haven't been among court documents routinely made available to the public. It says Congress intended for the documents usually to remain secret. The New York Times had sought...

SO maybe Eliot Spitzer did kill AIG, after all. Nobody doubts the in surance giant is basically kaput, or that the promix ate cause is billions in losses in obscure instruments known as credit-default swaps, or CDSs. But American International Group didn't go deadly deep into CDSs until after New York Attorney General Spitzer had forced out Maurice "Hank" Greenberg out as CEO. GO back to March 2005, just days after Spitzer scored his biggest scalp during his eight-year tenure as the Sheriff of Wall Street by compelling Greenberg's departure. The new CEO, long-time AIG executive Martin Sullivan, held an...

SO maybe Eliot Spitzer did kill AIG, after all. Nobody doubts the in surance giant is basically kaput, or that the promix ate cause is billions in losses in obscure instruments known as credit-default swaps, or CDSs. But American International Group didn't go deadly deep into CDSs until after New York Attorney General Spitzer had forced out Maurice "Hank" Greenberg out as CEO. GO back to March 2005, just days after Spitzer scored his biggest scalp during his eight-year tenure as the Sheriff of Wall Street by compelling Greenberg's departure. The new CEO, long-time AIG executive Martin Sullivan, held an...

Eliot Sptizer's year in the wilderness taught him nothing.....it's still all about him. He popped up on TV to hit the comeback trail....after being caught in consort with a call-girl -- humiliating himself and his family and delivering the state into the stunningly inept hands of then-Lieut Gov Paterson.....it's hard to know which of Spitzer's transgressions was more egregious: * The Ashley Dupre dalliance.....* Or making a play for black votes by placing Paterson just one hooker from the Executive Mansion......the current chaos in Albany may have enticed Spitzer to poke his head out his hidey-hole: his fundamental failure was...

LOS ANGELES - Scientists think they have solved the mystery of how planets form around a star born in a violent supernova explosion, saying they have detected for the first time a swirling disk of debris from which planets can rise. The discovery is surprising because the dusty disk orbiting the pulsar, or dead star, resembles the cloud of gas and dust from which Earth emerged. Scientists say the latest finding should shed light on how planetary systems form. "It shows that planet formation is really ubiquitous in the universe. It's a very robust process and can happen in all...

ALBANY, N.Y. – Eliot Spitzer has a few words to say about the AIG bonus brouhaha: I told you so. The former New York governor battered American International Group with charges of corruption long before his own dizzying downfall in a prostitution scandal. He has used this latest financial scandal to strike his old populist, Sheriff of Wall Street themes and, just maybe, mend his reputation — though critics contend that he bears a share of the blame for the insurance giant's historic near-collapse. Spitzer says the AIG bonus issue is "penny ante" compared to the billions of the insurer's...

Eliot Spitzer choked her during sex, claims high-end call girl claims high-end call girl Updated Sunday, March 8th 2009, 3:08 PM Eliot Spitzer Altaffer/AP Eliot Spitzer Related News Articles * One year later: The Spitzer call girl scandal His political rivals used to accuse Eliot Spitzer of going for the jugular. Now a new call girl is claiming the former governor literally went for hers — claiming he wrapped his fingers around her neck during some kinky role-playing. As the first anniversary of his resignation as governor approaches, Spitzers Emperors Club VIP plaything Ashley Dupre is still holding back on...

His political rivals used to accuse Eliot Spitzer of going for the jugular. Now a new call girl is claiming the former governor literally went for hers — claiming he wrapped his fingers around her neck during some kinky role-playing....Annie says she was working for madam Kristin Davis when she met Spitzer, who was then state attorney general, at Davis apartment at The Corinthian on E. 38th St. "He booked two hours," says Annie. "I dont remember exactly how much he was charged, but definitely over $1,000 an hour. "He wanted a scenario where I was supposed to say I...

Breaking - a judge has ordered the release of the transcriptions from the tapes involved in the Elliot Spitzer Call Girl Scandal.

WHEN Billie the madam met Eliot the politician, neither had any idea that within a couple of years the careers of both would be ruined and the tawdry bedroom habits of one of America’s most powerful state governors would be discussed in ignominious detail by comedians and chat-show hosts across the country. In a book detailing her improbable rise from a California trailer park to a million-dollar New York apartment, Kristin Davis, a busty blonde brothel-keeper also known as Billie, the Manhattan Madam, lays bare her relationship with Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor, who was forced to resign...

SAYS SEC 'ROARS LIKE A LION, BITES LIKE A FLEA' Harry Markopolos told Congress the SEC failed to act despite credible allegations of fraud for nearly a decade. Markopolos, a securities industry executive and fraud investigator, blew the whistle on Madoff between 2000 and 2008.... "I became fearful for the safety of my family. Madoff was one of the most powerful men on Wall Street and in a position to easily end our careers or worse," Markopolos said.

The fraud investigation of Wall Street money manager Bernard L. Madoff took unusual twists Wednesday as the U.S. attorney general removed himself and the Securities and Exchange Commission looked into the relationship between Madoff's niece and a former SEC attorney who reviewed Madoff's business. The developments reflect growing criticism that Wall Street and regulators in Washington have grown too close. Madoff himself has boasted of his ties to the SEC. The question of Madoff's connection to regulators goes to the heart of the investigation of the alleged $50 billion fraud, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox told reporters. Congress jumped into the...

Members of designer Yigal Azrouel's team were none too happy to see luv Gov Eliot Spitzer's former fave call girl Ashley Dupre take a front row seat at his fashion show Friday. As for the photo taken backstage featuring Yigal and the Luv Gov's fave escort, Garcia Santana had this to say: "Yigal has never met her, doesn't know her. He has his picture taken with many people back stage. This is all very upsetting. The focus should be on the beautiful collection he presented." As for how Dupre ended up inside and front row center, Cutrone said, "Ashley was...

Markopolos discovered the Madoff fraud years ago, but regulators wouldn't listen. He was not compensated for his investigations, hd "did for the flag" and country. His testimony is marvelous. Listen live: http://radiotime.com/WebTuner.aspx?StationId=20334&

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Your humble correspondent has always been somewhat uneasy about newspapers publishing the names and photos of clients of prostitutes. For committing what is at worst a misdemeanor, those clients have a good chance of having their entire lives ruined when their wives and family find out. The punishment seems quite a bit out of proportion to the crime. However, I must admit getting a bit of a kick out of the ABC News show, 20/20, reporting on the clients of Kristin Davis aka the Wall Street Madam. Hey, why should we feel sympathy for rich clients who feel it is...

'Clients used corporate credit cards for sex'Press Trust of India Updated: Feb 08, 2009 at 0028 hrs IST Wall street lawyers, investment bankers, CEOs and media executives often used corporate credit cards to pay for $2,000 an hour prostitutes, claimed a woman who once ran the financial city’s most expensive escorts services. The madam Kristin Davis, in an interview with the ABC News programme 20/20, said “I was writing up monthly bills for computer consulting, construction expenses, all of these things, I was invoicing them monthly so they could get it by their accountants. Some of these guys, I was...

Kristin Davis, the Manhattan madam known as disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's personal "Madam Butterfly," blows the whistle on him and others in her gang of clients in a tell-all book available online. The busty, bottle-blond bombshell writes in "The Manhattan Madam" that Spitzer, a client of her escort service, was "good for a call at least once a week" from 2004 to 2006 - when she cut him off because he liked it too rough. Spitzer meant "thousands of dollars of steady income for me and my ladies," wrote Davis, "that is, until the complaints began coming in hot...

A distant Jupiter-like planet on an eccentric orbit swings so close to its parent star that its temperature spikes by about 1,260 degrees Fahrenheit (682 degrees Celsius) in only six hours... Then as rapidly as it heats up, the extrasolar planet cools back down after zipping past its star, said lead study author Gregory Laughlin, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The planet's path is unique, Laughlin noted. Most known "hot Jupiters" have tight, roughly circular orbits. They are tidally locked, showing only one face to their stars, just as the moon does to Earth... "But this...

She was the property of her overbearing partner, and the madam who helped run the prostitution ring that brought down Gov. Eliot Spitzer has the tattoo to prove it. Cecil "Katie" Suwal was sentenced yesterday to six months in jail for her role in operating the Emperors Club VIP that serviced the notorious "Client 9," but not before her lawyer said she was controlled by her Svengali-like boss who branded her in the most humiliating of places.

Although everybody claims to love the market, nobody really likes the rough-and-tumble of competition that produces the essential "creative destruction" of capitalism. At bottom, this abhorrence of competition and change are the common theme that binds together the near death of the American car industry, the collapse of the credit market, the implosion of the housing market, the SEC's disastrous negligence, the Madoff Ponzi scheme, and the other economic catastrophes of recent months....

It was an historic moment in the nation's history - a year when old barriers fell. It was a year when one word filled the air - change. It was a year Democrats came to believe in the audacity of hope. Or maybe just plain audacity. One governor was caught with his pants (but not his socks) off, hooking up with an aspiring singer who preferred cash payments and called customers by their numbers. Another was discovered trying to sell a Senate seat in language not allowed on HBO mob shows (and anyway, viewers would have dismissed the plot as...

Eliot Spitzer revealed his family's mega-rich real-estate firm took a hit from accused Wall Street scammer Bernard Madoff. Spitzer simply shrugged his shoulders at Slate's holiday party......Spitzer writes a government regulation column, according to NPR. Investigators now believe Madoff's fraud stretches back to the 1970s, and that Madoff's shady investment advisory business includes some 4,000 customers - far more than the 25 clients he registered with the SEC. Ezra Merkin, who guided Yeshiva University's ill-fated $110M investments with Madoff, quietly stepped down as chairman of the tax-exempt UJA-Federation's investment committee. Madoff must remain at his tony East 64th Street penthouse...

Eliot Spitzer, who as New York attorney general was known as the “Sheriff of Wall Street” for his crusade against investment fraud, has acknowledged that his family was swindled by the man accused of running what could be the largest Ponzi scheme in history. According to a National Public Radio report, Mr. Spitzer revealed at a holiday party this week that his family real estate firm had invested money with Bernard L. Madoff, the financier who authorities have said confessed to a $50 billion fraud.

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned due to his involvement in a prostitution ring, is slowly attempting to edge himself back into the public eye with his new column in Slate. The problem from the POV of The New Republic is that Spitzer is trying to make himself relevant again much too quickly without showing the proper remorse. As a result, The New Republic gives Spitzer some atonement advice written by Jacob Gershman which does the former governor no real service since anything he does now will come off as a cynical attempt to return to the public...

<p>Bernard Madoff, a former Nasdaq chairman who may well be one of the biggest fraudsters in Wall Street history, was arrested Thursday for allegedly running his high-yield capital management firm as a giant pyramid scheme.</p> <p>The scope of the alleged fraud runs to $50 billion - nearly $20 billion more than was lost in the Enron collapse.</p>

$1M SLAP AT SPITZER DAD OVER RACIAL BIASBy PILAR CONCI and TODD VENEZIA Last updated: 2:28 am December 6, 2008 The father of disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer suffered his own disgrace yesterday, when a Bronx jury found he discriminated against four black employees and ordered him to pay more than $1 million in penalties. The jurors took about four hours to decide that racism prompted Bernard Spitzer, 84, to improperly fire a doorman and three porters in 1999 from a building he owned at 150 E. 57th St. in Manhattan. The jurors ordered him to pay a total of...

Eliot Spitzer, former governor of New York, has a new calling: online commentator. At 5:59 p.m., Slate, the online magazine, published the first of what it says will be a series of biweekly columns by Mr. Spitzer on financial matters. Mr. Spitzer’s first column argues against using bailouts to prop up giant financial conglomerates, asserting that the money could be better spent elsewhere, whether it’s supporting “basic research and development that could give us true competitive advantage” or restructuring “our bloated health care sector.” The flaw in consolidation, Mr. Spitzer writes, is that it has created mega-banks that are deemed...

WASHINGTON – A congressional committee is investigating the circumstances that led to the sex scandal causing the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and whether the case was politically motivated. The House Financial Services Committee seeks to determine whether federal agents misused their expanded powers under the Patriot Act.

ALBANY — Eight months after a federal investigation into a prostitution ring brought about the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the question persists in some circles: Was the federal government out to get Mr. Spitzer? No evidence has surfaced to support such an assertion, and the prosecutor in the case has said that politics played no role in the pursuit of Mr. Spitzer, a Democrat. But that has not put to rest suspicions, expressed on left wing blogs, that Mr. Spitzer, a zealous pursuer of Wall Street wrongdoing who some thought could one day be president, had been singled out....

ALBANY — Eight months after a federal investigation into a prostitution ring brought about the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the question still persists in some circles: Was the federal government out to get Mr. Spitzer? No evidence has surfaced to support such an assertion, and investigators have said that politics played no role in their pursuit of Mr. Spitzer. But that has not put to rest suspicions, expressed on left wing blogs, that Mr. Spitzer, a zealous pursuer of Wall Street wrongdoing who some thought could one day be president, had been singled out. Now, a congressional committee has...

In an interview with Diane Sawyer, Ashley Dupre insists on ABC News' "20/20" that she's not a prostitute, saying that being an escort involves much more than just sex.

The prostitute at the center of the salacious scandal that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and generated national headlines is going to dish on her life as a pricey escort. ABC says Ashley Alexandra Dupre sat down with Diane Sawyer on the program "20/20." Dupre reveals how an "upper middle-class, girl next door got into the profession and the psychological journey she continues to experience."