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SPITZER HAS USED HOOKERS FOR 6 YEARS: SOURCES
By JEANE MACINTOSH and CHUCK BENNETT
March 11, 2008 — Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been soliciting high-priced hookers for at least six years and possibly for more than a decade, sources tell The Post.
The revelation yesterday that the crusading governor was in fact “Client 9″ named in a federal prostitution indictment did not shock insiders in the city’s sex industry.
Sources tell The Post that Spitzer had frequented high-priced hookers as far back as 2002 and possibly earlier.
Political insiders are wondering how long Gov. Eliot Spitzer will last in office following a prostitution scandal that was plastered all over the front pages Tuesday of every New York newspaper.
The scandal made front-page news in Connecticut, too, but the state has an even broader interest regarding the future of the controversial Broadwater liquefied natural gas proposal in Long Island Sound. A key deadline of April 11 is looming, and officials on this side of Long Island Sound have been wondering how Spitzer would react to the proposal.
All four U.S. Senators in the region - two in New York State and two in Connecticut - have all weighed in against Broadwater. The big question is how Spitzer - or Paterson - will decide.
“There are a number of approvals that are pending in New York that could block this” proposal, said Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams, the highest-ranking senator. “It appears Lieutenant Governor David Paterson will be the next governor of New York, possibly in the next few days.”
By MICHAEL GORMLEY - 1 hour ago
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - With pressure mounting on Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign over a call-girl scandal, investigators said Tuesday he was clearly a repeat customer who spent tens of thousands of dollars - perhaps as much as $80,000 - with the high-priced prostitution service over an extended period of time.
Spitzer and his family, meanwhile, remained secluded in their Fifth Avenue apartment, while Republicans began talking impeachment, and few if any fellow Democrats came forward to defend him. A death watch of sorts began at the state Capitol, where whispers of “What have you heard?” echoed through nearly every hallway of the ornate, 109-year-old building.
On Monday, when the scandal broke, prosecutors said in court papers that Spitzer had been caught on a wiretap spending $4,300 with the Emperors Club VIP call-girl service, with some of the money going toward a night with a prostitute named Kristen, and the rest as credit toward future trysts. The papers also suggested that Spitzer had done this before.
Speaking of condition of anonymity, a law enforcement official said Tuesday that Spitzer, in fact, had spent tens of thousands of dollars with the Emperors Club. Another official said the amount could be as high as $80,000. But it was not clear over what period of time that was spent.
Prostitutes and the New York Governor
Is Spitzer ‘Client #9?’
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer today apologized for his reported involvement in a prostitution ring.
The brewing scandal was first reported in the New York Times, which said Spitzer told senior administration officials in his office of his involvement. The newspaper now reports that the governor was caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet a pricey prostitute at a Washington hotel last month.
“I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family” and the public, Spitzer said during a brief press conference around 3:15 p.m. ET. “I promise better.” He went on to say he is “disappointed” he has not lived up to the standards he set for himself, adding that politics is “not about individuals” but about “policy” and the “public good.”
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman,
Giving all your love to just one man.
You’ll have bad times
And he’ll have good times
Doing things that you don’t understand…
–”Stand by your Man” by Tammy Wynette
At this point, it has become something of a cliché in our cultural imagery: A disgraced male public official at a news conference taking his lumps for a newly unearthed sexual indiscretion while his baffled yet supportive wife stands at his elbow, struggling to put a public face on the many emotions roiling beneath a calm exterior. Many viewers to our latest reality-television episode, starring Eliot Spitzer, no doubt shouted back at the T.V. in sympathetic support to Spitzer’s wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, “Leave the bum!”
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