Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning.
Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times
Governor Eliot Spitzer at a news conference in July 2007.
Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He scheduled an announcement for 2:15 after inquiries from the Times.
Mr. Spitzer, a first term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform an end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children.
Really? That's AWESOME! But it gets better!
As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.
In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.
“”This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. ”It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.”
Everyone knows I could give a rats ass if someone visits a prostitute or cheats on his wife. That's not my business. However, I DO enjoy it when Democrats get a nice, heaping spoonful of their own medicine. The point out when Republicans get caught up in prostitution rings and they previously denounced such behavior.
Now, the Governor of New York is in the unenviable position of having to try to explain away how he managed to get caught up in this to his constituents and his wife and three children.
He has issued a slight statement:
"I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family ... my sense of right and wrong," he said at a news conference at his Manhattan office. "I must now dedicate some time to rededicate my trust to my family."
And of course, there's always the "apology video". God, how I love these!
I'll go get the popcorn.
Travis
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