Posted on 03/11/2008 3:45:10 PM PDT by FeliciaCat
March 11, 2008 -- Cheers erupted on trading floors around the city yesterday as word spread of the stunning downfall of Gov. Spitzer - who spent most of his term as attorney general torturing Wall Street with his witch hunt for financial wrongdoing.
An employee of a major investment bank, who requested anonymity, said the company chef had been instructed to break out bottles of champagne so that the staff could party and swap jokes about "client No. 9."
Meanwhile, at another giant firm, Merrill Lynch, "everyone broke into cheering on the trading floor," an employee said. Merrill got socked for hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties, thanks to Spitzer.
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Who says this is a downfall for a Democrat? It's only sex.
He is going to try and brass it out..
I work in one the industry’s Spitzer has a hard-on for...EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY COWORKERS AND COMPETITORS AND CLIENTS ARE LOVING, LOVING, LOVING watching this a-hole go down in flames.For anyone who doesnt know about Spitzer personally, he is a prick of the largest and tallest order. That he is going down for this type of situation is extra special. Karma will bite ya every single time Elliott!
I want to see the body. H’s not gone yet.
Spitzer and Wall Street were made for each other.
Has he resigned? Has he been indicted? Has he even been CHARGED?
He ain't downfallen yet.
I’m waiting for pictures of “Kristen”. Anyone seen one?
"Oh, how we rejoice when the mighty have fallen"
. He's going down, Cat.
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I doubt if he can carry this off...Mr. Morality made his name on the supposed “high road”.
And just think, soon “Kristen” will give her sworn testimony about just what they did up there, and why he might have requested things “not safe”.
The dead Spitzer bounce!
Sure he will. Know how I know?
He’s a Democrat.
So do I, yet while I'm laughing hysterically at all this, I'm still kinda holding my breath when I can because he hasn't bit the bullet, YET!!!
As an aside... Wellpoint sure drug most of the big health insurers down something awful today. I think they are finally scared to death of this coming November and have as little confidence in MucKain winning as I do.
I wonder if there was some personal vendetta or “hurt feelings” with Spitzie going after Wall Street. I mean, Big Daddy S. made his fortune in real estate, no?!
What is it about these NY types that the best way to describe them in “putz.”
“Spitler” Ping for you Liz!!!
Dick Grasso is a man of solid character, who led the NYSE ably though the post-9/11 crisis. Spitzer was an absolute lowlife schmuck for going after his well-deserved $150 million pay package--after 35 years of employment. I didn't see him going after Jason Giambi's even larger contract with the Yankees, whom he defrauded by using steroids.
Mar 11, 6:53 PM EDT
Spitzer May Have Spent Big on Call Girls
By MICHAEL GORMLEY
Associated Press Writer
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- With pressure mounting on Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign over a call-girl scandal, investigators said Tuesday he was clearly a repeat customer who spent tens of thousands of dollars - perhaps as much as $80,000 - with the high-priced prostitution service over an extended period of time
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