Eliot Spitzer Prostitution

Spitzer Shares Arrogance of Other Powerful Men

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer built his career on the moral high ground, but faces a fall suffered by Greek gods and Shakespearean characters through his own hubris or exaggerated sense of self-pride.

That scenario, say psychologists, is as old as time: Men who seemingly have it all but tempt fate to risk everything — family, reputation and even power.

Spitzer — who during eight years as an aggressive attorney general was compared to Eliot Ness, the legendary FBI man who brought down Al Capone — is now allegedly Client 9 in a federal investigation of an upscale prostitution ring.

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State Police Internal Investigation: How Did Gov. Spitzer Slip Security Leash?

By RICHARD ESPOSITO
March 11, 2008  

In New York state, even as cabinet-level officials began to prepare an orderly transition by briefing Lt. Gov. David Paterson on key details of their components of the government in anticipation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer stepping down, criminal justice officials launched a preliminary inquiry into how the disgraced governor slipped his security detail while traveling, state sources told ABC News.

ABC News has learned that Spitzer routinely tried to push off the one or two state police officers who accompanied him out of town, suggesting to the troopers that they didn’t need to accompany him as he went to the gym or telling them he was going to turn in early.

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Spitzer Escort: Governor Was a Nice Guy, Good Tipper

  By BRIAN ROSS and ANNA SCHECTER
March 11, 2008
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A 22-year-old escort found on another call-girl Web site told ABC News in a phone interview that Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been one of her customers two years ago when he was New York attorney general and that he was a nice guy who tipped well.

“He didn’t do anything that wasn’t clean,” she said, adding that she knew who he was because he had made calls from the attorney general’s office in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Federal investigators say there is no evidence Spitzer used state money or campaign funds to pay the prostitutes, but that the way he moved an estimated $40,000 through various accounts violated federal money laundering laws.

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