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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (112031)	3/10/2008 7:53:24 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

" One more time...you will not be blown up. " english.aljazeera.net

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (112031)	3/10/2008 8:13:57 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, I believe he got caught because some suspicious money transfers were flagged (probably by a financial institution). Investigators initially thought he was hiding bribes. Then they found out about the prostitution. It is a federal crime because he shipped the prostitute across state lines. He is incredibly unpopular in NY because of his arrogance, lack of political skill, personal attacks, a couple of totally idiotic and unpopular proposals, and ego based clashes with other politicians. He has so many enemies nothing would shock me about who helped bring him down. If you follow NY horse racing at all, you would understand what I am talking about. He's the same on every issue.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (112031)	3/10/2008 8:14:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

From the NYT article "Federal prosecutors rarely charge clients in prostitution cases, which are generally seen as state crimes. But the Mann Act, passed by Congress in 1910 to address prostitution, human trafficking and what was viewed at the time as immorality in general, makes it a crime to transport someone between states for the purpose of prostitution. The four defendants charged in the case unsealed last week were all charged with that crime, along with several others." nytimes.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (112031)	3/11/2008 12:51:36 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

strange money transfers, the feds thought he was taking bribes

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (112031)	3/11/2008 2:41:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

When the scandal first came out all I heard was that he was "linked to a prostitution ring". At first I thought that meant that he was part of running the ring not a customer. It seemed an odd way to describe being a customer. It seems it may have been the IRS that tripped him up - --------------- Revelations Began in Routine Tax Inquiry By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM Published: March 11, 2008 The rendezvous that established Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s involvement with high-priced prostitutes occurred last month in one of Washington’s grandest hotels, but the criminal investigation that discovered the tryst began last year in a nondescript office building opposite a Dunkin’ Donuts on Long Island, according to law enforcement officials. There, in the Hauppauge offices of the Internal Revenue Service, investigators conducting a routine examination of suspicious financial transactions reported to them by banks found several unusual movements of cash involving the governor of New York, several officials said. The investigators working out of the three-story office building, which faces Veterans Highway, typically review such reports, the officials said. But this was not typical: transactions by a governor who appeared to be trying to conceal the source, destination or purpose of the movement of thousands of dollars in cash, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The money ended up in the bank accounts of what appeared to be shell companies, corporations that essentially had no real business. The transactions, officials said, suggested possible financial crimes — maybe bribery, political corruption, or something inappropriate involving campaign finance. Prostitution, they said, was the furthest thing from the minds of the investigators. Soon, the I.R.S. agents, from the agency’s Criminal Investigation Division, were working with F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors from Manhattan who specialize in political corruption. The inquiry, like many such investigations, was a delicate one. Because the focus was a high-ranking government official, prosecutors were required to seek the approval of the United States attorney general to proceed. Once they secured that permission, the investigation moved forward. At the outset, one official said, it seemed like a bread-and-butter inquiry into political corruption, the kind of case the F.B.I. squad, known internally by the designation C14, frequently pursues. But before long, the investigators learned that the money was being moved to pay for sex and that the transactions were being manipulated to conceal Mr. Spitzer’s connection to payments for meetings with prostitutes, the official said... nytimes.com