Spitzer prosecuted too harshly and wildly. He was taken down for that and enabled to be taken down because he violated the mass cultures only sin — hypocrisy. And the flagrant sinner can never be a hypocrite. Sort of a catch-22 of holding the worst to account.
He was not prosecuted too harshly. Spitzer was member of Stonewall Vets and the direct action network (DAN).