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Suspicious Money Transfers Led to Spitzer

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Posted by Steve White 2008-03-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Has Spitzer never heard of cash? BTW, in that photo is Spitzer holding hands with a zero diamond girl?

Posted by ed 2008-03-11 01:37|| 2008-03-11 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 must be expensive money transfers for the FBI to think they were bribes.

Posted by Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-03-11 02:04|| 2008-03-11 02:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Suspect this photo will very soon become a collectors item:

http://www.ny.gov/governor/photos/fl_0121082.html

Posted by Besoeker 2008-03-11 02:10|| 2008-03-11 02:10|| Front Page Top

#4 FOX NEWS > Spitzer reportedly used "money on account" = accounts payable, which basically meant he did it It IT IT I-T IIIITTTT BEFORE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-11 02:25|| 2008-03-11 02:25|| Front Page Top

#5 You'd think that a guy with a history of prosecuting financial crimes would use CASH for his illegal transactions...

Posted by gromky 2008-03-11 06:54|| 2008-03-11 06:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Client 9 also is alleged to have paid for the woman's train tickets, cab fare, mini bar and room service, travel time and hotel.

"Kristin honey, I'm sorry, there's no receipt for lunch on the train so I won't reimburse it. Try to screw me will ya?!" - Eliot

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Posted by GORT 2008-03-11 07:58|| 2008-03-11 07:58|| Front Page Top

#7 It's not the sex that's the problem here, Eliot ...

It might not be about the sex, but he sure is fucked...

/duck & run

Posted by Raj 2008-03-11 08:08|| 2008-03-11 08:08|| Front Page Top

#8 The FBI takes "structuring" activity seriously, because the bulk of it is drug money activity. The banks provide lists (data-mined) of suspicious looking activity, and off the investigators go. Imagine the eyes that popped when the governor of NY state's name showed up...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-03-11 09:40|| 2008-03-11 09:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey, honey, if you don't get me anything for Valentines Day, that's okay. I took care of it...

Posted by Client #9 2008-03-11 10:54|| 2008-03-11 10:54|| Front Page Top

#10 I'd still like to know how long Eliot had been a client of EMPG, how he came to learn of them, what other consideration he received from them for what services he may have provided to them and who were clients 1-8. I suspect there's a lot more to come and it may take till November for it to all come out, as it were.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-11 11:08|| 2008-03-11 11:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Client #9, soon to be inmate #69032696.

Posted by Creling Darling of the Lichtensteiners8341">Creling Darling of the Lichtensteiners8341 2008-03-11 11:17|| 2008-03-11 11:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Damnit, stop calling me Client 9, my name is Governor "John".

Posted by smdshack 2008-03-11 12:48|| 2008-03-11 12:48|| Front Page Top

#13 did this "corruption-fighter" have no thought about how his services with an industry with ties to organized crime put him in a blackmail position? Arrogant idiot!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-11 13:15|| 2008-03-11 13:15|| Front Page Top

#14 The real question is:

What are the DNC's rules on counting "absentee ballots" from Superdelegates at the Convention???? Especially if that absenteeism is because he's in freakin' jail???

Of course, that might be cause for celebration in the DNC. Wonder if old Bill has already contacted Eliot for "Kristen's" phone #?

Posted by BA 2008-03-11 13:38|| 2008-03-11 13:38|| Front Page Top

#15 As recently as this past Valentine's Day, Feb. 13, Spitzer, who officials say is identified in a federal complaint as "Client 9," arranged for a prostitute "Kristen" to meet him in Washington, D.C.

Kristen darling...are you deaf? I asked you to lick my erection notwreck my election!

Posted by Client 9 2008-03-11 14:23|| 2008-03-11 14:23|| Front Page Top

#16 Could be this why he went after Wall Street types more than Mafiosi?

Blackmail?

Posted by Unusosing the Anonymous8755 2008-03-11 15:24|| 2008-03-11 15:24|| Front Page Top

#17 Can't believe the Spitzer was so dumb. Must have self-destruction urges. Surely, he was aware of monitoring, tracking of large money transfers, etc. Someone might have blown the whistle (no pun intended) on him in retribution.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-03-11 16:01|| 2008-03-11 16:01|| Front Page Top

#18 "Eliot Spitzer - cleaning up New York one hooker at a time! Sometimes maybe two at a time."

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-03-11 16:06|| 2008-03-11 16:06|| Front Page Top

#19 For those of you who were wondering what could Spitzer want that's worth $5,500, I offer this quote from the NY Post:

"Suwal (alleged madam) told Kirsten (alleged call-girl) that Client-9 "would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe - you know . . . I mean that . . . very basic things."

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2008-03-11 18:37|| 2008-03-11 18:37|| Front Page Top

#20 Reports say Spitzer may have spent $80K on these "very basic things".

Posted by ed 2008-03-11 18:59|| 2008-03-11 18:59|| Front Page Top

#21 I mean couldn't he, like other bored middle aged men, have spent the money on a Porsche?

Posted by ed 2008-03-11 19:02|| 2008-03-11 19:02|| Front Page Top

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