Posted on 03/26/2008 8:59:07 AM PDT by Liz
Hooker bookers for the call-girl ring that brought down Eliot Spitzer are ready to open their little black books to make a deal with the feds.The flesh peddlers are poised to give up the identities of their well-heeled johns as part of plea negotiations.... The potential public humiliation is just the beginning - the likely powerful, wealthy johns could be in hot water if they embezzled or laundered money to pay for their trysts......The feds may seek help from Emperors Club VIP employees to determine who's on the operation's list of clients and how they paid for their "dates." Investigators may want to see if clients broke laws in how they paid for Emperors' services, sources said.........unidentified "Client-4" in the criminal complaint was caught on a Jan. 27 wiretap in LA discussing his $1,605 date with the booker. He bragged how he would "get it past my accountant and auditor as a business expense." That could violate laws against embezzlement or making false statements, sources said.
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It would be even easier for pols-in-heat to finagle to force taxpayers to pay for their whoring. Mayor Giuliani took it to a new level---he hid the upkeep for his mistress in obscure city agencies.
REFERENCE 3/12/08 news reports says then-Gov Spitzer forcibly sought to testify before a Congressional subcommittee that had not invited him.....probably as the excuse to use public money for a hooker he brought down to Washington---a place that has more brothels than Congressional districts. When Spitzer did show up ay the committee hearing Feb. 14, the day after he'd been with "Kristen" a prostitute.
Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Alabama) said the typically unflappable Spitzer "came unglued" under questioning. "Now, it all makes sense," Bachus said. "I realize that he may have been a little sleep-deprived," Bachus said with a grin in an interview.
The subcommittee had requested the NY State Insurance Superintendent's testimony (re New York's efforts to regulate bond insurance) but Spitzer requested his own invitation....according to committee aides. At the last minute, Spitzer's office alerted NY reporters he would be in Washington less than a day before the 11:30 am hearing. This was no doubt the modus operandi the whore-fixated Spitzer used in order to finance his hooker habit with government money---by faking "official" business trips. Convenient cover story to hide his devious activities from his trusting wife and children, too.
Spitler insinuated himself into the committe hearing supposedly testifying about New York's efforts to regulate bond insurance. Now wait a sec---there's a lot of money tied up in that industry. What was Spitler's real motive? Several buddies who manage hedge funds financed his campaign. Was this another "return on investmnent" scam?
Some cynics say Attorney General Spitzer was running a protection racket and would call Spitzer an “extortionist.” He would threaten a corporation with a lawsuit.....The lawsuits would cost them millions in legal fees and damage control....so they paid up to “appease the Spitzer beast” figuring a "settlement" would make him go away. Course every corporate payoff makes the beast stronger and his appetite bigger. He then threatens their neighbor, and then the next neighbor - until the entire block on Wall Street is paying ransom. Spitzer learned the "protection racket" from Unions who had learned it from the Sicilian Mafia.
Giuliani used the same scam………… and earned enough under the table to get himself into the Mayor's office.
“get it past my accountant and auditor as a business expense.”
Wonder who Client #4 is
This is why you don't get involved in seedy stuff like this. But many of our politicians are apparently too dumb or lacking in self-discipline to get it.
Once again, as I've posted many times before, if you're wealthy enough, move your money out of the country and have a plane on standby to exit stage left when the FedGov starts smelling "money in the water"...
“There will be blood”
Io! Bacchus!
GUILTY
And I may have left a few out.
Excellent.
I truely wonder about the political factors that will come into naming certain names. We could be talking about heads of state, UN ambassadors, high ranking foreign politicians and business men. The fact that only two names have been released out of probably hundreds, it’s got me wondering if the feds are going to be ordered to bury some for “national security” reasons.
One escort being interviewed after this story came out said that Saudi Princes and other middle-easterners were some of her most regular clients. They start naming those names and the whitehouse will go nuts.
Not to mention that any time a public figure is engaged in an activity they wish to keep hidden, they set themselves up for the possibility of blackmail.
I’m so tired of people saying these are private matters or it’s only about sex. Wrong!
It certainly will be interesting to see whose names are in the lil black book! The suspense is titillating.
Everyone of these above the law a-holes needs to be publicly humiliated and then sent to jail.
Does seem likely——the public appears to be in no mood for political shenanigans-—especially b/c they are being forced to subsidize them.
not guilty.....
One client has been ID’ed as an aide to Giuliani.
Course it’s much easier to pay for whores with public money-—it’s called government fraud.
Giuliani easily hid the upkeep for his whore from his wife-—and the public——by hiding the costs in obscure city agencies.
Yeah-—why worry (/sarc).
Does this mean there are more than nine?
Guilty of being a typical Shore-gal hosebag.
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