aaahhhhh---David and Bethsheba story......he was right about wallstreet because his circle of 'friends' were those people......Spitzer stopped buying the beer........
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Feds say Spitzer will not face charges November 6, 2008 at 3:33 pm by Casey Seiler
Did all this election news make you forget Eliot Spitzer? Not any more: Prosecutors will not bring criminal charges against the former governor for his role as America’s most famous prostitution client. The statement from U.S. Attorney Michael J. Garcia:
MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that his Office will not seek criminal charges against ELIOT SPITZER, the former Governor of New York State.
Mr. GARCIA stated: “On March 6, 2008, this Office announced the filing of criminal charges related to an international prostitution ring known as the Emperors Club VIP. The investigation which led to those charges began when this Office learned of payments made in a questionable manner by former Governor SPITZER to a bank account in the name ‘QAT Consulting.’ After the investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Internal Revenue Service- Criminal Investigation Division, the Office determined that the QAT Consulting account and a similar account at another financial institution had been used to launder more than $1 million worth of criminal proceeds derived from the Emperors Club VIP’s prostitution business.
“ELIOT SPITZER has acknowledged to this Office that he was a client of, and made payments to, the Emperors Club VIP. Our investigation has shown that on multiple occasions, Mr. SPITZER arranged for women to travel from one state to another state to engage in prostitution. After a thorough investigation, this Office has uncovered no evidence of misuse of public or campaign funds. In addition, ....http://blogs.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/9222
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
'I'M SORRY FOR YOUR PAIN,' SILDA By DAREH GREGORIAN
November 19, 2008 -- What haunts Ashley Dupre isn't the image of Eliot Spitzer in his black socks - it's the look on his wife's face as he announced he was resigning as governor.
"I try not to revisit that place too often, but when I think about his speech, I think of her face, her eyes, the hurt," the former high-priced hooker told People magazine in an interview that hits newsstands Friday.
If she could say anything to Silda Wall Spitzer, it would be, "I'm sorry for your pain."
As for what happened with the governor inside Washington's Mayflower Hotel on Feb. 13, that was "strictly business."
Speaking in detail for the first time since the $4,300 tryst that sank Spitzer's once-promising political career, Dupre said she hadn't realized who "Client No. 9" was when she hooked up with him.
Inside Room 817, Spitzer was dressed in casual clothes. There was no security detail in sight and nothing that made her realize she was having a tryst with New York's governor and zealous former state attorney general.
In fact, it wasn't until her mother, Carolyn, told her to flip on the TV to Spitzer announcing his resignation that she realized the man who had paid her for sex was the governor of New York, she tells the magazine.
"I mean, ask a lot of 22 year olds," she said. "I was wrapped up in my family, my music. I knew the name, but the face . . . I'm not really a TV person," she told People.
Besides, she said, "I was there for a purpose - not to wonder who [he] could be."
Despite Spitzer having a reputation as a difficult client, Dupre - who was using the alias "Kristen" - told People that Client 9, who was going by "George Fox," was "polite."
"Some guys, they want to have conversations and really get to know each other. With him, it clearly was not like that. It was more of a transaction. Strictly business," she said.
Dupre said she practiced safe sex with all her clients, including her most notorious one, but on the advice of her lawyer, she wouldn't divulge any more details of the evening or say whether she and Spitzer had hooked up previously.
She did say that she doesn't feel guilty about his downfall, noting that if she hadn't been sent to the hotel that night, somebody else would have been.
Dupre was working for the Emperors Club VIP escort ring at the time, which, unbeknownst to her, was being investigated by the feds.
In early March, she was contacted by the FBI, which told her it was investigating one of her clients.
Dupre said she panicked and called her mother for support. Her mom hadn't known how her little girl was paying the bills.
"My mother wasn't angry. She was supportive," she said, but the news was "extremely painful for her."
A few days later, Dupre was in her Manhattan apartment when Carolyn told her to turn on the TV. There was Spitzer, acknowledging he'd made a mistake involving a "private matter" after news broke about his involvement with the Emperors Club.
The "private matter" was his paying for sex from "Kristen."
Dupre felt her world crashing down around her. "It was surreal," she said. "I felt like I was suffocating."
Within days, Dupre was revealed to be "Kristen." She stayed holed up in her apartment, scared to face the media hordes from around the world that had camped outside her building.
She was eventually able to sneak out by hiding under a blanket in a car. She was then taken to a "safe house" her lawyer had arranged for her. "I felt like a Bond girl," she told the magazine.
Racy pictures and original recordings on Dupre's MySpace page helped turn her into an even bigger media sensation while she was hiding out.
She said her father, who took off when she was 3, called her after she hit the headlines to say, "Damn, girl. When you do it, you do it big!"
When the frenzy died down, she moved back in with her mother and stepfather, Michael DiPietro, 57, an oral surgeon, at their New Jersey house - the same home she'd run away from when she was 17. She said she'd been following in the footsteps of her older brother, who'd run away in 1997. "That devastated me," she said of her only brother running off when she was 12.
After leaving home, she headed first to North Carolina, where her father was living, and began boozing and doing drugs. She then took the party down to Florida.
Dupre said the hard living was nonstop - drinking a bottle of Grey Goose vodka at a time and partaking in a "lot" of marijuana, ecstasy and cocaine.
It was during that period that she did her now-notorious "Girls Gone Wild" video. And it was about the same time she says she was raped. "It caused me to disconnect - with sex, with real relationships," she said.
She came back up north and was working as a cocktail waitress when she was approached by a man who asked her if she'd be interested in modeling, she told the magazine.
The man worked for an escort agency - and she was intrigued. "This wasn't any different than going on a date with someone you barely knew and hooking up with them," she said.
"I knew what my purpose was, they knew what their purpose was - there weren't any games."
The busty brunette started hooking in 2004 and did quite well for herself, living a high-flying international lifestyle. She said most of her clients were "intelligent, handsome and successful."
She also knew it was a dangerous profession and started thinking of quitting the life even before the scandal broke.
"It started to be scary," she said. "What if I got AIDS? Got killed?"
She said she was able to hang up her stilettos and move on in April 2007 after hooking up with a rich - and married - sugar daddy she had fallen for.
"I loved him," she said. "I changed. Suddenly, my life had meaning. I spent New Year's with my mother and stepfather, toasting that this was going to be my year, the best year."
Then the married man who'd been supporting her dumped her right after New Year's. Soon, she was back at the Emperor's Club and headed for her encounter with the governor.
Spitzer went back to work for his father's real-estate business after stepping down as governor in March, and last week, the US Attorney's Office announced he wouldn't face any criminal charges as a result of its prostitution probe.
After the announcement, Spitzer released a statement in which he finally 'fessed up to his penchant for prostitutes.
"I acknowledge and accept responsibility for the conduct it disclosed," he said of the federal investigation. "I resigned my position as governor because I recognized that conduct was unworthy of an elected official."
Spitzer - whose resignation came after 14 turbulent months in office - was spared the humiliation of trial and possible jail time after a "thorough investigation" by the IRS and FBI found no evidence he misused public or campaign cash, the feds said.
Manhattan US Attorney Michael Garcia said there was "insufficient evidence" to charge Spitzer for withdrawing the money he used to pay the Emperors Club for his illicit high jinks.
He had also faced potential charges on allegations he'd violated the Mann Act, which forbids bringing people across state lines for sex.
Dupre had traveled by train to Washington from New York specifically for the tryst.
The feds don't typically go after johns and weren't going to change their practice for Spitzer.
Dupre was granted immunity from criminal charges in return for her cooperation with investigators.
Four others pleaded guilty to running the international prostitution operation.
Dupre said she doesn't hold a grudge against Spitzer - "I think he's been punished enough" - but the months since the scandal broke have been tough on her.
The media spotlight has been "very hard," she said, adding, she has undergone "intense" psychotherapy since March. "But I'm a survivor," she said.
The leggy looker said she hasn't been able to work at anything since the scandal. "I couldn't get a job - [the media] would bombard me!" she said, but added she was done turning tricks. "Never again," she said.
Dupre said she spends her time working out and reading, and is speaking out now in a bid to "get on with my life."
She also did an interview with Diane Sawyer that will air on "20/20" Friday night. ABC said the interview will reveal how an "upper-middle-class girl next door got into the profession, and the psychological journey she continues to experience."
A photo released by the network shows Dupre trying to change her image - she's dressed in a demure violet dress buttoned up to her neck with long, sheer sleeves.
And now comes the forgiveness and redemption! Too bad she didn't think of this sooner, huh? Of course she will become a super star now.....only in America!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Love life advice from Ashley Former call girl linked to Spitzer now an advice columnist in the Post By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press First published in print: Monday, December 14, 2009
NEW YORK -- Got a problem with your love life? Ask Ashley.
That would be Ashley Dupre, the former call girl whose tryst with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer led to his resignation last year.
The New York Post has hired the 24-year-old to write a weekly advice column dealing with sex and relationships.
The column in Sunday's paper is illustrated with photos of Dupre wearing glasses and a conservative suit, along with a half-unbuttoned blouse and 6-inch heels.
Meredith, 40, from Queens, asks, "How do I know if my daughter may be getting into trouble?"
Ashley advising on relationships? Who thinks these things up?
Only in America, I swear! Look at Tiger's 'girls'. This will just kick start a nice little career for them too!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Hopefully the NYS voters will vote for MORAL people from now on, or we will get what we deserve. Spitzer is an immoral bully who threatens to steamroll, etc. his enemies.
Hopefully the NYS voters will vote for MORAL people from now on,
I would love to, but where are all of the MORAL people? Politically and personally? I wonder if they even exist anymore.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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