Spitzer: Was He Blackmailed?

How long has Eliot Spitzer been patronizing prostitutes?

To me that's the only question worth exploring in the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal. Reading the New York Times article, you have to wonder if he's been "No. 9" or some other number with other hookers for a long time. While he was attorney general, for instance?

That's because the key word here is not "hypocrisy" or "morality," it's "blackmail." If Spitzer has been patronizing prostitutes, he'd be leaving himself open to being shaken down, perhaps by the mob. The Russian mob is heavily involved in prostitution.

While I doubt that Spitzer would have succumbed to blackmail, had it been attempted, it was a risk he should not have allowed the citizens of the state to take. If, that is, this was not an isolated incident. If it was, then this is a big, fat nothing.

Comments

[fjd10595:]

To much speculation here, not helpful.

2008 Mar 11 08:08 AM

[reader:]

I am betting that this is not an isolated incident. Time will tell if I am correct. The arrogant, SB, has just the type of personality to get himself into the position he finds himself. He needs to do the right thing, which is difficult for someone with his self rightuous character, and resign the governorship.

I am also sure that this will happen after he and his attorneys work out a no jail time deal with the feds.

2008 Mar 11 02:59 PM

[Leser:]

Gary, your brief article has a point well taken.
The situation is like looking at the immediate results of an accident with an iceberg. There may still be collateral damage that we haven't perceived on that sinking ship.
A little charity for the man that's down wouldn't reflect poorly on any of us. To paraphrase the saying "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." If this act hasn't seriously affected how the government runs, let him "pay the price" of his doings, but we should refrain from slanderous judgement in the public forum. Now he, too, will have his day in court. Anyone gloating over his problem isn't doing anyone right.

2008 Mar 11 09:55 PM

[bill d:]

An accident ???? Give me a break.
Sex is one thing - the money laundering/transaction... are another. The only charity I'm willing to give him would be a 230 gr .45 cal cartridge. If he had any honor he'd use it. But he is a philandering, hypocritical, felon, in other words a typical politician.

2008 Mar 11 11:47 PM