Client 9

[Deisler]

Way to go Spits. :s***:

(Reuters) - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is the individual identified as "Client 9" in court papers filed last week in breakup of an international prostitution ring called the Emperors Club, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Client 9 paid $4,300 to a $1,000-an-hour prostitute on February 13, according to court papers. He also paid for a train ticket to bring the woman from New York City to Washington in a possible violation of the federal Mann Act, which prohibits the interstate transport of any woman for the purposes of "debauchery."

Violations of the Mann Act are punishable by fines of up to $5,000 and up to five years in prison.

Spitzer, a Democrat, apologized to his family and the public on Monday for a "private matter" and said he had "failed to live up to the standard that I expect of myself," but he made no reference to The New York Times report.

Spitzer has not been charged in the case of the multimillion-dollar prostitution ring.

Here are the key facts about Client 9 from the court papers filed in New York Federal Court:

* The papers describe six telephone calls between Client 9 and one of the defendants that were intercepted by wiretaps between February 12 and 13. Client 9 arranged to meet with a prostitute on February 13 in Room 871 of a hotel.

(The New York Times identified the hotel as the luxury Mayflower Hotel in central Washington)

* Wiretaps also recorded the defendants discussing Client 9 between February 11 and February 14, including discussing his payment problems due to the late arrival of a cash deposit.

Discuss

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Hilarious story. There goes another super delegate for Clinton

Sucks though, I like Spitzer.

 

[Deisler]

They used to call him the clean guy for fighting prostitution in NY. I guess that explains why he went in DC to get some a$s mailed fron NJ.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

There's starting to be a LOT of speculation from Democrats that this is a strange investigation, and it's not said explicitly, but this could be a product of Bush's politicization of the US Attorney's office and the Department of Justice.

The Mann Act, which is what Spitzer has been prosecuted under has a very sordid history, and has usually been used to prosecute undesirables. Best example: boxer Carlos Johnson. John's are very rarely identified, and the federal government basically never gets involved in what is a state matter. And usually in states it gets pled down to a disorderly conduct charge. The US Attorney's office, and the US Attorney for a district in particular, usually has much more and better things to do than deal with consensual prostitution.

 

[Nettles]

haha this is just some private life ****. there's worse stuff with politicians

 

[newbie original]

any pics of the woman?

 

[yoyo913]

I wish I could be with $1000/hr hookers.

 

[Rocky]

Interestingly enough this prostitution ring was headquartered in Cliffside Park, NJ, which is where I live. Sucks for Spitzer, he had a pretty good political career going for him and ****ed it up.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

The Look of his face! The Wife too! !!!!!!

Yeh, that is a bit dodgy, I thot federal authorities were meant to be fighting terrorism or smth, not this smut.

 

[Bobby]

Hahaha, that face is PRICELESS!