Oh come on now, that rumor is FALSE.
"FIVE! I was client number FIVE."
"Hillary was Number 1..."
Posted on 03/12/2008 9:03:34 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
The prostitution ring that ensnared New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer stunned officers at SAPD.
For some, the big surprise wasn't that a federal wiretap captured a governor arranging to meet a call girl.
No, the shock was how much prostitutes were charging: $1,000 to $5,500 per hour.
"That's crazy," one cop said. "Who could afford that?"
Court papers say a number of wealthy men met with Emperor's Club prostitutes in New York, Washington, London, Paris, Miami, and Los Angeles. Spitzer, an affidavit says, paid $4,300 in cash.
"Amazing," said a second officer. "Makes you wonder what the girl did in an hour."
In Spitzer's case, the affidavit says, the cash paid for train tickets, cab fare, hotel, room service, mini bar and sex, with some, apparently, used for credit toward a next encounter.
"Outrageous," the first cop said, "even for New York standards."
As officers followed the news on TV and the Internet, I asked about a case involving an alleged multimillion dollar escort service in San Antonio.
In late October, SAPD seized computers, ledgers and credit card information from two Northwest Side residences. Authorities described the homes as the business center of Executive Playmates, the largest prostitution ring in city history.
No one was charged. But law enforcement sources said index cards from the raid yielded information on some 2,000 customers.
So what's the latest on Executive Playmates?
SAPD forwarded the findings from its investigation to federal authorities last week.
"We are awaiting word from the U.S. attorney's office as to what charges they will go forward with and who will be charged," police Chief Bill McManus said in a statement Tuesday.
The chief offered no other details. Normally chatty officers professed across-the-board ignorance.
"Haven't heard a thing," said one plugged-in-cop.
"It's been kept real quiet," said another.
No one will say if the names of politicians or public officials appear on escort service index cards. After the October raid, McManus told the Express-News: "I suspect there will be some nervous people."
Those who know if any power brokers should be nervous aren't talking. And that's not like SAPD. The department springs all kinds of leaks at the first whiff of scandal. But not in this case, which makes you wonder.
From previous interviews, I can tell you this: Call girls with Executive Playmates worked on the cheap compared with those at the Emperor's Club — the service that allegedly catered to Spitzer.
In January, law enforcement sources told me more than 300 women worked for Executive Playmates, some charging up to $200 per hour.
Two hundred dollars here would get a client a little more than two minutes with the most expensive Emperor's Club call girl.
One source expressed amazement that some local men "spent over $15,000 on escorts in a six-month period."
Now consider Spitzer: Investigators Tuesday said he spent as much as $80,000 with the Emperor's Club over an extended period.
The case against Spitzer continues to develop. But the big name and major details have been exposed. In San Antonio, names and details remain sealed. No telling what the feds will do. But the story of former Madam Theresa Brown is worth remembering.
Her infamous local list of clients was said to include prominent public officials. But under court order in 1985, it was destroyed.
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Call Ken Rodriguez at (210) 250-3369 or e-mail krodriguez@express-news.net
“This seems to be a rare instance when a Liberal is willing to spend his own money.”
AH, don’t be so sure YET, that is isn’t public money. They need to work back to where the money originated.
And at the current exchange rate, I think this one was making more than Spitzer’s...
Well, she was wearing a pearl necklace when he made his announcement.
One pearl for each tryst.
Last night Elliott Spitzer’s father was busted in a roundup of streetwalkers in the Bronx. When the eighty plus year old was asked why he was using the services of cheap hooker while his son paid $4300.00 for a hooker, the old man replied:
My father isn’t a millionaire...
“No, the shock was how much prostitutes were charging: $1,000 to $5,500 per hour.
“That’s crazy,” one cop said. “Who could afford that?”
Well, obviously, some well-heeled politicians.
OMG!
Silver is stating that Paterson has the CHARISMA to be Governor of New York!!!! Qualified out the kazoo!
Poor NY - let us pray for our brethren - when will they ever learn not to elect people with charisma.
Charisma kills!
Bingo. Our nation's law enforcement is selective at best.
The policy on the border now is if they have less than 500 pounds of dope, let them go. So they all bring 490 in now just in case they get caught.
And police will speed by speeders when they aren't on traffic ticket "duty". And there may be more dangerous interesections to patrol but more lucrative locations and times of day to enforce the law.
So yeah, when they bust up a call girl operation, it is because of pressure coming down on them. And some of the names will get released to the wires but others will forever be supressed.
In Houston there was a club called the butt naked club and customers felt they were safe from arrest because they saw cops in uniform doing coke while groping naked girls.
When the Fox affiliate did a ride along for the police raid, there were no police present at the establishment day. Think the word went out in the deparment "you'd better not be there"?
More than clinton, bump.
Bill Clinton received oral from Monica while he was deploying US troops overseas on the phone.
Bill Clinton received oral from Monica while he made foreign heads of state wait in the Rose Garden for him to finish off and zip up.
IT DID AFFECT HIS JOB PERFORMANCE and was disrespectful to all he worked with but his defenders didn’t care.
the 1997-1998 (Chinese money) thread you linked - see photo post #14...is that Huma? Looks just like her.
Interesting!
I understand the jury is still out on that question.
“No, the shock was how much prostitutes were charging: $1,000 to $5,500 per hour. “
1) All girls college age.
2) Model looks and bodies.
3) Will travel to meet client where ever they want.
4) Clients are prodominatly millionaires and billionaires.
5) Whatever the client wants, the client gets.
Not that shocking. Hiedi Fliss was mentioning that from the girls descriptions of Spitzer being “difficult” in his requests, he was demanding no condom anal sex.
I suggest Spitzers wife go get a full STD scan today.
Because he can. It's part (maybe the main part) of the thrill.
For some, two minutes may be long enough.
I hope Bush and the Republicans have a dirt file on the rats that could fill up a tractor-trailer. If you want to know what names are circulating, use Sherlock Holmes’ logic and listen for the dogs who are NOT barking.
Looks like it could be.
Oh come on now, that rumor is FALSE.
"FIVE! I was client number FIVE."
"Hillary was Number 1..."
re: “passionate harmony”
So she’s a musician too?
Maybe Eliot Spitzer was just looking for “music lessons”.... :^)
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