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Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer and his wife, First Lady-to-be Silda Wall, who are bent on turning over a new leaf in Albany, proved with their Christmas card that reform starts at home. The back of the card, which includes the all-important union “bug,” reads: “Not printed at government expense.” The photo of the family on the beach was taken by Connecticut Pamela K. Fox, who, along with her husband George Fox, a hedge fund manager, contributed some $100,000 to Spitzer’s gubernatorial campaign this election cycle, maxing out the individual contribution limits. The Foxes are longtime friends of the Spitzers, according to...

"Client 9" T-shirts hit the Web Tue Mar 11, 2:59 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Who really is "Client 9?" The New York Times says it's the code name for New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in court papers that link him to a prostitution ring, but now anyone can be "Client 9" with T-shirts available online just a day after the scandal broke. From simply "Client 9" with a large lipstick smooch over the top to "Just Call Me CLIENT 9," designers on Web sites like www.cafepress.com and www.zazzle.com are cashing in on reports that Spitzer had hired a...

Governor Negotiating To Cut Deal With Federal Prosecutors NEW YORK (CBS) ― Gov. Eliot Spitzer is set to resign Wednesday, sources tell CBS 2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer, but insiders say he's going to use the resignation as a bargaining chip to cut a deal with federal prosecutors and he won't step down until that happens. The talks have been going on since Tuesday morning. The governor's fate rests in the hands of two people: U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia and Michele Hirshman, the head of his legal defense team. The deal they cut will determine Spitzer's future. -snip-

Gov. Eliot Spitzer ended up as the subject of an investigation into a prostitution ring because his bank branch in Manhattan turned him in to the Internal Revenue Service as someone who might be engaged in suspicious currency transactions, according to sources familiar with the investigation.