Eliot Spitzer Prostitution

Gov. Spitzer Situation in New York Has Broadwater Implications in Connecticut

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.”

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Sources: Money transfers spurred Spitzer probe

WASHINGTON (CNN) –

The allegations bearing down on New York’s governor didn’t start with a prostitute — despite lurid details in a federal affidavit detailing an alleged tryst with a “very pretty brunette” named Kristen last month.

Rather, sources familiar with the investigation said Tuesday that Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s troubles began with a federal money-laundering probe.

Prosecutors unsealed an affidavit that details a rendezvous in a Washington hotel room between a prostitute and “Client 9,” who a source with knowledge of the case said Monday was Spitzer.

Spitzer, who has not been charged with any crime, stood beside his wife, Silda, on Monday, apologizing to his family without specifically mentioning accusations of a romp with a high-dollar prostitute.

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Spitzer Allegations Send Wave of Shock

The idea that Gov. Eliot Spitzer — the square-jawed crusader who promised to bring ethics to Albany, the former prosecutor who chased corruption on Wall Street so ferociously that people nicknamed him Eliot Ness — was somehow involved in a prostitution scandal was too much. New Yorkers who thought they had heard everything were, for a change, dumbfounded.

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