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2008-03-12 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Spitzer May Have Spent Tens of Thousands

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Posted by Steve White 2008-03-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "The irony and the hypocrisy is almost too good to be true," said Bryn Dolan, a fundraiser who works with many Wall Street employees. "If he had any shame, he would've already resigned."

From ABC News yesterday: "The Dow Jones industrial average shot up more than 416 points, its biggest one-day point gain since July 24, 2002."

Coincidence?

Posted by Pappy 2008-03-12 00:26|| 2008-03-12 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Coincidence?

Not a chance.

Posted by Mike N. 2008-03-12 00:35|| 2008-03-12 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 I think I said this earlier, but I'm more worried to find a high-ranking persecuting attorney such as him in bed (for lack of a better term) with a classic money-laundering operation.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-03-12 01:13|| 2008-03-12 01:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Excellent. Let's get the third shift online and rolling at Halliburton - Spitzer Charge-Trumping Division.

Posted by Seafarious 2008-03-12 01:13|| 2008-03-12 01:13|| Front Page Top

#5 FOX + CNN > somehow, somewhere, it appears the SPITZER SEX SCANDAL is slowly but surely devolving into "OBAMA VERSUS HILLARY"???

* ION,TOPIX > JOHN MCCAIN - UNFIT FOR COMMAND?

* TAIPEI TIMES > UCLA STUDY: US NOT IN RECESSION.
NOT in one now, and can still AVOID ever going into one.

CERTAINLY LOOKS LIKE SPITZER ISN'T IN A RECESSION, ala "UP TO $80,000"!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-12 01:46|| 2008-03-12 01:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe he was working undercover?

Posted by Phaviling and Tenille8002 2008-03-12 04:20|| 2008-03-12 04:20|| Front Page Top

#7 ...the amount could be as high as $80,000.

Damn, that's Charlie Sheen territory!

Posted by Raj 2008-03-12 08:35|| 2008-03-12 08:35|| Front Page Top

#8 80 grand? I don't think I've paid 80 grand on my mortgage yet...

Posted by tu3031 2008-03-12 08:53|| 2008-03-12 08:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Kristen said the kind of sex Spitzer wanted was "unsafe." Now what kind of sex would be unsafe? If he were worried about catching some disease, there's always the condom. I wonder if Spitzer was into erotic asphyxiation? Just speculating.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-03-12 08:56|| 2008-03-12 08:56|| Front Page Top

#10 the rest as credit toward future trysts

That tells me the source of the money is dodgy.

Unless the 'club' had a pay up front, 2 for 1 special that week.

Posted by phil_b 2008-03-12 08:59|| 2008-03-12 08:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Just don't try auto-erotic asphyxiation. It's a bitch.

Posted by Michael Hutchence 2008-03-12 09:01|| 2008-03-12 09:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Kristen said the kind of sex Spitzer wanted was "unsafe." Now what kind of sex would be unsafe?

The kind where you get caught and lose your job...

Posted by Client #9 2008-03-12 09:01|| 2008-03-12 09:01|| Front Page Top

#13 His father pays the rent on his penthouse.
It's $25K/MONTH!

Posted by 3dc 2008-03-12 11:12|| 2008-03-12 11:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Nice of dad to help out. Now I know how he's got 80 grand to blow on hookers...

Posted by tu3031 2008-03-12 11:16|| 2008-03-12 11:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Question of the day:

Where did he get the $80K+?

And he was Client #9. Not 5029, nor 319, but 9.

For a multi-state, multinational brotherl that has been operating for at least 6 years.

He was in on the ground floor. How tangled wis he in this?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-12 13:16|| 2008-03-12 13:16|| Front Page Top

#16 Maybe he replaced old number 9. Maybe its like Amazon, the more you spend the higher you place on their spam solicitations. Or the airlines with 'frequent flyer' perks.

My inquiring mind would like to know who 1 through 8 where. If the Gov of NY isn't entitled to privacy concerns, why them?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-12 13:24|| 2008-03-12 13:24|| Front Page Top

#17 According to the Daily News, they may have figured out who Client #6 is...

The richest man in Great Britain was a customer of the same high-end prostitution service patronized by Gov. Spitzer.

The Duke of Westminster, listed as the world's 46th richest person by Forbes magazine, hired four hookers over a six-week stretch in late 2006 and early last year, the News of the World reported last year.

Despite his incredible wealth, multi-billionaire Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor haggled with one of the Emperors Club girls for the cost of their date, according to the report.

Prostitute Zana Brazdek, then 26, described the 56-year-old Grosvenor as dull and demanding. "I thought his conversation was quite boring," the Lithuanian woman told the newspaper. "He talked about the Army, going to Afghanistan and bin Laden. And he wanted unprotected sex. I refused."

The documents did not name any of the men, but the papers noted that "Client 6" enjoyed a romp with a hooker named "Astrid" in London. "Client 6" then called the Emperors Club to inquire about another girl for a follow-up session, the papers said.

The British reports about Grosvenor said the duke's prostitutes were young enough to be his daughters. They also had an international flair: In addition to the pair from the former Soviet Union, Grosvenor entertained an Asian woman in knee-high boots and a Brazilian.

The hookers included a Russian who went by the name of Stella. She told reporters that her clients preferred whips and stiletto heels. "At six o'clock," she said in a thick Russian accent, "I stop to be a good girl."

Posted by tu3031 2008-03-12 15:35|| 2008-03-12 15:35|| Front Page Top

#18 "At six o'clock," she said in a thick Russian accent, "I stop to be a good girl."

Union shop?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-12 15:56|| 2008-03-12 15:56|| Front Page Top

#19 While Eliot is messing around with chump change ($80K) for hookers and attention is diverted, Hillary (zero star babe) is trying to figure out how to steal Florida and Michigan. Maybe she will use private detectives to try to get something on the superdelegates. Wouldn't put it past her.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-03-12 16:24|| 2008-03-12 16:24|| Front Page Top

#20 The only honorable way out of this for Spitzer is Seppuku, done the old fashioned way. Just sayin'.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Thorne Bay, AK">Alaska Paul in Thorne Bay, AK 2008-03-12 20:03|| 2008-03-12 20:03|| Front Page Top

#21 Paul - no, with Seppuku you stick the knife into your bowels and then cut. I think that if I had been caught with a prostitute, my wife would insist that I aim the knife a few inches lower.
But then, I'm not worth millions of dollars for my wife to get in the divorce.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-03-12 23:03|| 2008-03-12 23:03|| Front Page Top

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