Posted on 03/14/2008 10:39:38 PM PDT by pissant
Prosecutors are homing in on the disgraced former New York state governor Eliot Spitzer, by investigating whether he used money raised for political campaigns to pay for travel and other expenses relating to his meetings with prostitutes.
The New York Times, which broke the story of his involvement with a prostitution ring that led to his resignation on Wednesday, said the inquiry into his actions was focusing on three trips in which he employed the services of women supplied by the Emperors Club VIP, a New Jersey-based operation. One of those meetings was the February 13 liaison at a Washington hotel that FBI agents wire-tapped.
Senior aides in Spitzer's office told the newspaper he had stressed that no campaign funds had been used to fund his trysts. But investigators will be studying whether he kept a clear separation between public and private matters in his financial affairs, as US law requires.
The move by prosecutors to examine the question of campaign funds came as the woman who met Spitzer in Washington, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, remained in the centre of a media frenzy.
Dupre - who began life as Ashley Youmans and worked as a prostitute under the pseudonym "Kristen", charging $1,000 an hour - is not shying away from the spotlight. While her whereabouts is unknown, Dupre, also a struggling musician, has been active through websites.
Her Myspace page temporarily went down on Thursday, but was back up overnight and totting up impressive traffic. It has received 7m hits and almost 3m plays of her song What We Want.
That song and another, Move Ya Body, are posted on the download site Amie Street and have received 300,000 visits.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
thank you bill f’ing clinton for your legacy.
He was bad a decade ago. He picked on everyone he could to get into office.
Hmmm...I wonder what Clinton did 10 years ago.
Alleged call girl’s lawyer tells media to back off
MELVILLE, N.Y. | Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Eliot Spitzer’s alleged call girl known as Kristen, has sent out a lawyers’ warning telling the media to stop using Spitzer’s misfortune as “an excuse to exploit Ms. Dupre’s persona for commercial purposes by, among other things, displaying a montage of suggestive photographs of Ms. Dupre that has nothing to do with the Spitzer story.”
More here...
http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/532363.html
Call Girl Laments Use of Exotic Photos
By COLLEEN LONG – 1 hour ago
q NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyer for the call girl linked to the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer lashed out at the media on Friday for thrusting the 22-year-old woman into the “public glare” without her consent and publishing revealing photos.
More here...
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Photos:
http://gawker.com/photogallery/ashleyyoumans4/1000926614
http://www.topsocialite.com/ashley-alexandra-dupre-pictures/ashley-alexandra-dupre-pictures-12/
Now there's an Internet technology we all could really use ...
Never mind campaign funds.
He apparently invited himself to Washington for his Feb 14th testimony before a House Committee, and was ill prepared when he did appear.
So he manufactured an excuse to be in Washington so he could screw his whore.
Who d’ya think footed the bill for that trip?
More than that it is only $80k of Democrat money, put to waste. Flush!
Breyer Rabbit... “I will sue if you media sources cause people to look at the page and download my songs...”
Same thing will happen to him that happened to Nifong. Nothing. After a few weeks of fuss and bother, the NY authorities will hope that we forget all about it and give him a slight reprimand and then drop the whole subject.
The high and the mighty look after each other and are not subject to the laws that they make for us.
How nice of the Guardian to prominently report Mr. Spitzer’s political affiliation.
“Senior aides in Spitzer’s office told the newspaper he had stressed that no campaign funds had been used to fund his trysts.”
Anyone catch this?
So his aides knew about it, and probably helped him with some of the arrangements. That makes them potential accomplices, especially if they knew about the wire transfers and such.
The federal prosecutors may have some guys who are ready to turn on the Governor and make his life much more difficult.
Hopefully, just the NY tax payers, and not the rest of us.
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