Comments on: The Spitzer File Chronicles, Part 2: Trying to Keep Secret What is No Longer Secret http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:39:21 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ishmael http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885316 Ishmael Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:34:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885316 <p><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/17/memo-to-michele-hirshman-you-may-have-mike-garcia-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/" rel="nofollow">http://firedoglake.com/2008/03.....ard-place/</a></p> <p>…and a bazillion minus one more! :)</p> http://firedoglake.com/2008/03…..ard-place/

…and a bazillion minus one more! :)

]]> By: citizenjeff http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885314 citizenjeff Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:10:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885314 <p>I searched this site, and none of those bazillion posts came up in the results. Can you tell me how to find them? Thanks.</p> I searched this site, and none of those bazillion posts came up in the results. Can you tell me how to find them? Thanks.

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885311 earlofhuntingdon Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:58:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885311 <p>There was really no adequate basis for federal involvement at all. It was blatantly about getting Spitzer, his donor list and his money. They Republicans thought they could hold onto the White House. </p> <p>Wall Street’s bipartisan: it’s players will screw anybody who exposes how they make money, off of whom and how much.</p> There was really no adequate basis for federal involvement at all. It was blatantly about getting Spitzer, his donor list and his money. They Republicans thought they could hold onto the White House.

Wall Street’s bipartisan: it’s players will screw anybody who exposes how they make money, off of whom and how much.

]]> By: leftdcin72 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885310 leftdcin72 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:58:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885310 <p>Spitzer was a very lousy prosecutor, a file and settle type, achieving a little noise and relatively ineffectual cash settlements. No injunctions of any significance in the civil setting. He lost the case against the bald guy running the NYSE.</p> <p>Imagine serving as Governor and giving your credit card number for charging purposes to an “escort” site on the internet. No one can come up with credible conspiracy theory when it comes to behavior like that, except the notion that he is a self-destructive rich kid.</p> <p>The real deal was the deregulation of the banking industry by the Clintons in 1999 and how was the AG of New York going to deal with it. Spitzer never got near that issue.</p> Spitzer was a very lousy prosecutor, a file and settle type, achieving a little noise and relatively ineffectual cash settlements. No injunctions of any significance in the civil setting. He lost the case against the bald guy running the NYSE.

Imagine serving as Governor and giving your credit card number for charging purposes to an “escort” site on the internet. No one can come up with credible conspiracy theory when it comes to behavior like that, except the notion that he is a self-destructive rich kid.

The real deal was the deregulation of the banking industry by the Clintons in 1999 and how was the AG of New York going to deal with it. Spitzer never got near that issue.

]]> By: happyendings http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885309 happyendings Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:54:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885309 <p>Spitzer didn’t get charged, but the women did. That is the reason that Rhode Island does not have a prostitution law. A class action suit was brought against the state for selective enforcement. Be on the look out for more suits that will try to change prostitution laws.<br /> Check out Happy Endings? a documentary film on Asian massage parlors in RI where prostitution is legal.<br /><a href="http://www.happyendingsdoc.com" rel="nofollow">www.happyendingsdoc.com</a></p> Spitzer didn’t get charged, but the women did. That is the reason that Rhode Island does not have a prostitution law. A class action suit was brought against the state for selective enforcement. Be on the look out for more suits that will try to change prostitution laws.
Check out Happy Endings? a documentary film on Asian massage parlors in RI where prostitution is legal.
http://www.happyendingsdoc.com

]]> By: citizenjeff http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885308 citizenjeff Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:50:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885308 <p>LHP- Spitzer never confessed to any crime. What are you talking about?</p> LHP- Spitzer never confessed to any crime. What are you talking about?

]]> By: goldpearl http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885307 goldpearl Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:47:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885307 <p>thanks for this series lhp</p> thanks for this series lhp

]]> By: looseheadprop http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885306 looseheadprop Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:41:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885306 <p>Ishmael, I just added your tidbit in an update to the post. Yu may have to hit refresh to see it</p> Ishmael, I just added your tidbit in an update to the post. Yu may have to hit refresh to see it

]]> By: looseheadprop http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885305 looseheadprop Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:37:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885305 <p>There was a state based crime that could be charged, by a state DA, not the feds</p> There was a state based crime that could be charged, by a state DA, not the feds

]]> By: looseheadprop http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885304 looseheadprop Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:36:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/the-spitzer-file-chronicles-part-2/#comment-1885304 <p>Proper title? Ma’am?</p> Proper title? Ma’am?

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