>> Bet the money traces back to the mafia.
I haven’t seen any evidence to support that, but I guess it wouldn’t surprise me.
Personally, I think a stronger hand would be betting that TAXPAYER money is involved (for the travel, and so forth).
After all he has done — not just the hooker thing but also his arrogant misuse of power — I hope he suffers big time for this.
I don’t have any sympathy for the missus, either. It’s pretty apparent to me that she’s not so much his wife as one half of the “power couple”. Screw her.
His daughters — now them I feel sorry for. I hope the domineering creep didn’t do anything creepy to them.
What the Neighbors are Saying [Lisa Schiffren]
A little local reporting here, before we return to the larger moral argument: I spent yesterday working at the annual bookfair at my kids' school, along with seven or eight former banker-, lawyer-, broker-, buyer- (and one other journalist-) - Manhattan moms. There was not one iota of sympathy for our Governor to be found at that table, even among the liberals. Every second person in the neighborhood works on Wall Street — and no one — including the apolitical — had missed the ruthlessness and utter vindictiveness with which he prosecuted minor and ambiguous offenses, and in the process destroyed companies and lives.
Nor was there any sympathy for the wronged wife, Silda— who has clearly benefitted for long years from his ruthless prosecution of others. Much, though for the kids. What sympathy there was for Silda was contingent upon seeing her leave him immediately. My buds, it seems, were highly offended that she dignified his pathetic non-admission, non-resignation by standing there with him, looking stricken. (Their husbands, they reported, more so yet. It was unmanly.) The ladies felt strongly that, what with her power-career, connections, and the likely settlement, she has nothing to fear in leaving. Staying makes her complicit — and costs her the sympathy anyone whose life has been shattered deserves.
As the story progresses, it is emerging that she is more than complicit. According to many reports, including this one, he was ready to resign on Monday, but she pushed hard to convince him not to give up office. Too many visions of sugarplums smashing on the floor? For that matter, reports suggest that their marriage was so close that he solicited her help when deciding who to prosecute and what kind of sentence to ask for. Our injured first lady turns out to be the type of southern belle in whose mouth butter does not melt, as they used to say of the cold-hearted and ambitious.