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A delegate to the Republican National Convention says he was robbed of more than $120,000 after he took a woman to his Minneapolis hotel room. The Denver man told police he met the woman in a bar, then took her to his hotel room at Hotel Ivy. Police say that once there, the woman made the man drinks and told him to get undressed. The 29-year-old delegate told police that was the last thing he remembered.

MyDD's Jerome Armstrong has secured a statement from Rielle Hunter, the woman with whom John Edwards has been accused of having an affair. From MyDD's site: "The innuendoes and lies that have appeared on the internet and in the National Enquirer concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous. My video production company was hired by the Edwards camp on a 6 month contract, which we completed December 31, 2006. When working for the Edwards camp, my conduct as well as the conduct of my entire team was completely professional. This concocted story is just dirty politics and...

Spitzer hooker sued for ID theftPublication date: 18 July 2008 A New Jersey woman alleged in a lawsuit that the woman accused of being a prostitute who allegedly catered to New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer stole her identity. Ashley Dupre was accused of using a driver's license bearing the name of Amber Apraio in order to get herself into a Girls Gone Wild video that was widely circulated on the Internet after the Spitzer prostitution scandal broke. The Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark, N.J., said Dupre was underage at the time the video was produced several years ago. Arpaio, a resident...

After bringing down Gov. Eliot Spitzer and becoming the most infamous hooker in America, Ashley Dupre is about to stoop even lower than prostitution - reality television. The former high-priced call girl is hungry to become the "next Tila Tequila" with a dating-type reality show that she is now developing with a Los Angeles-based company, E! News reported yesterday. Dupre, 23, doesn't yet have a deal to air the show - but she is set to kick her plans into high gear by moving to the Left Coast from the New Jersey mansion where she now lives with her mom...

Woman pleads guilty in Spitzer call girl scandalBy The Associated Press Wednesday, June 4, 2008 11:38 AM EDT NEW YORK - A woman accused of helping run the prostitution ring patronized by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to violate federal prostitution laws. Prosecutors say Cecil Suwal, 23, ran the day-to-day operations of the Emperors Club V.I.P. escort service, which charged clients up to $5,500 an hour for the services of its women. Suwal was accused of supervising the company's booking agents, paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars to prostitutes and controlling shell companies used to...

Four months before a hooker scandal brought down Eliot Spitzer, controversial Republican operative Roger Stone tipped the FBI to the governor's penchant for prostitutes. The information Stone provided was very detailed - right down to the calf-length black socks Spitzer allegedly wore while bedding his paid paramours. In a letter sent to the FBI on Nov. 19, Stone alleged that Spitzer "used the service of high-priced call girls" while in Florida.

LOS ANGELES — Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed her clothes for "Girls Gone Wild" as an 18-year-old while partying in Miami, the video company's founder said Tuesday. Joe Francis had reached out to Ashley Alexandra Dupre, now 22, with an offer of $1 million to appear in a non-nude spread for his company's new magazine, plus a chance to join the "Girls Gone Wild" tour bus, his company announced Tuesday. But Francis said someone had a revelation at the Tuesday morning staff meeting: Did anyone think to...

Very funny segment on the Eliot Spitzer "issue."

liot Spitzer vowed to shake up government and politics in New York. He did so in ways absolutely no one anticipated. By dallying with a call-girl ring known as the Emperors Club VIP—the name augured power and cost Spitzer his—he brought to office a remarkable new governor who may succeed in achieving Spitzer’s goals through methods nothing like those of the man who once called himself a “steamroller.” While David A. Paterson, who will take over Monday as New York’s first African American governor, can be a fierce Democratic partisan, he is positively courtly toward his Republican adversaries and often...

As first lady, Clinton condemned prostitution. So why did she send Eliot Spitzer and his family her 'best wishes'? Deja vu? If Spitzergate is creeping you out, think how Hillary Clinton must feel. Just when she was supposedly "hitting her stride," along comes a world-class sex scandal that reminds us of the darkest days of her husband's administration. Click here to find out more! For all Democrats, the distraction factor of the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who endorsed Clinton, is bad enough. But as 99.9% of the world's population knows, Clinton has some unique baggage when it...

ELIOT SPITZER WAS NOT CAUGHT BY THE PATRIOT ACT: "Currency transaction reporting requirements were enacted in the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, and money laundering was made a crime in overhaul of the federal narcotics laws that took place in 1986. Believe it or not, Karl Rove did not diabolically dream these provisions up to trap unwary Democrats, nor are they part of George W. Bush's post-9/11 Politics of Fear."

LOS ANGELES — I hate to say no to Neil Cavuto. I consider him a friend, a great host and a truly fine human being. ... But, even a pretzel can only twist around so much. And no matter how I twist it, there is just no way I can argue, with an even remotely straight face, that the Spitzer scandal helps the presidential candidate he endorsed, Hillary Clinton. The short answer is: it doesn’t. The only real question is how much it hurts. But you can’t look at Silda Wall Spitzer, standing by her man, at least behind the...

This may be deleted soon, along with her whole profile, so we'll preserve it here. But don't be surprised if she keeps it up and it grows. Given the fact that Paris Hilton is famous for, well, not much more (maybe even less) than what Ashley did, don't be surprised if she gets a record deal out of this. Sounds like she got sucked into this business through an ex-boyfriend when she was broke. Here's some advice for everyone out there; If someone you're with even suggests you prostitute yourself to make ends meet, leave them! They aren't doing...

ALBANY, New York (CNN) -- Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday that he will step down from the state's top office and promised to "atone for my private failings" with family members.

I have been bugged out with the flu, and as a result I've seen a lot of the commentary — including, of course, "expert" commentary, which has been something less than expert. The general approach of the federal law to prostitution mimics its approach to gambling. They are activities that tend to generate big profits for organized crime syndicates, which profits not only enrich the racketeers but underwrite their various other rackets, including loan-sharking, narcotics trafficking, murder-for-hire, etc. In Governor Spitzer's case, moreover, it's worth remembering the Nevada senator character in Godfather II who is blackmailed into doing the Corleones'...

The weekly podcast on this website features a very funny opening about the Spitzer situation in the form of a fake ad for a pill called Sleazealous. It's only about 2 minutes long, check it out. First Friday Blog

One might call it Shakespearian if there were a shred of nobleness in the story of Eliot Spitzer's fall. There is none. Governor Spitzer, who made his career by specializing in not just the prosecution, but the ruin, of other men, is himself almost certainly ruined. Mr. Spitzer's brief statement yesterday about a "private matter" surely involves what are widely reported to be his activities with an expensive prostitution ring discovered by the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. Those who believe Eliot Spitzer is getting his just desserts may be entitled to that view, but...

GOV NAILED IN HOOKER SHOCKMarch 11, 2008 -- Gov. Spitzer, who crafted a national reputation as a crusader against corruption, was exposed yesterday as the penny-pinching client of a $1,000-an-hour hooker. The bombshell allegations against Spitzer - referred to as Client-9 in an explosive criminal complaint against the operators of the prostitute's ring - triggered a series of fast-moving events from Albany to Wall Street to Capitol Hill.

The accusations that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer patronized a high-priced call girl tarnishes, if not undermines, the Democrats' attempt to portray the Republican Party as the party of corruption in this year's elections, even as it probably ends his own political career. The stunning confession yesterday by Mr. Spitzer, who had built a national law-enforcement reputation by prosecuting corrupt financiers on Wall Street, turns him into the most prominent political figure in the country to emerge in a recent string of personal and political scandals. Those scandals had seemed to catch more Republicans and led to steep losses for...

The poll is about halfway down the page, left-hand side and asks: Should Governor Spitzer resign or apologize and move on.Last time I checked, there was only a small majority on the side of resignation.