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To: mph who wrote (241726)	3/12/2008 11:05:01 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 794337

Experts: Indictments Loom For Spitzer wcbstv.com Disgraced Former Governor Could Face Myriad Of Charges Reporting: Don Dahler NEW YORK (CBS) ? Eliot Spitzer's resignation Wednesday spares him and the state the spectacle of an impeachment, but what about an indictment? It was a rare and unequivocal declaration by U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia: "There is no agreement between this office and Gov. Eliot Spitzer, relating to his resignation or any other matter." And in Spitzer's own words: "Over the course of my public life, I've insisted, I think correctly, that people regardless of their position or power take responsibility for their conduct." But what conduct? And what form will that responsibility take? Legal observers say there's a good chance the governor will be indicted. "To move funds from one place to the other, to hide the source of the money … it's still going to be money laundering," said John Jay College School of Criminology professor Joseph King. Experts say "Client 9" could face the following charges: * Money laundering for trying to conceal the source and recipient of financial transactions. * Tax evasion, if he was a knowing party to an all-cash business that wasn't filing taxes. * Violation of the Mann Act for paying for the trip from New York to D.C. by the call girl known as "Kristen." * Misuse of state resources, if he used his state-issued credit card for hotels or meals with prostitutes as well as if he was being protected by State Troopers during his dalliances. * And finally, soliciting prostitution. There's also the question of whether Spitzer used campaign funds for these trysts, which opens up a whole other litany of charges from fraud to federal election violations. Court documents and published reports indicate perhaps as much as $80,000 were transferred from Spitzer's account to a trio of dummy companies that were fronts for the escort service. North Fork Bank reportedly grew suspicious when the governor asked that his name be taken off the latest transactions. The prostitution charge carries the least severe possible sentence. Ironically, one of the first bills Spitzer signed into law raised the penalties for Johns, the men who patronize prostitutes, from a maximum of three months, to now up to a year in jail. Money laundering has a maximum of 20 years.

To: mph who wrote (241726)	3/12/2008 11:08:10 PM
From: Hoa Hao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794337

Latest that's floating out there on the wind about the Gov is that he was an investor in the "Club" and used his position as AG to eliminate the competition. Supposedly, they can only account for a small amount of the 80K going to the women he had sex with. The rest was as an "investment." Should get real interesting soon...

To: mph who wrote (241726)	3/12/2008 11:12:58 PM
From: MrLucky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794337

I share your view. Why is it that the threshold of human adherence to a law which addresses a criminal behavior need not be followed by those who fit the power or celebrity profile? The notion that two consenting adults (three if we include the pimp) enter into a contract which is known to violate a law is simply hunky dory. The pitiful aspect of Spitzer's scummy behavior is that he is a standing Governor. A man of consequence in the State of New York who tossed his loudly proclaimed views on morale conduct out of his office window in Albany, and worse yet, out of the window of his family's high rise apartment overlooking Central Park. The bottom line is that Spitzer is not victim of some antiquated law. He is an arrogant fool!

To: mph who wrote (241726)	3/12/2008 11:49:32 PM
From: Nikole Wollerstein	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794337

Not only celebrity get into trouble: "". In the same stream:"A team mother of a private basketball organization has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old boy on the team, police said Monday. Janice Marie Niccoli, 37, was arrested Friday at her Vacaville home on two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor more than 10 years younger " from SF chronicle " Stupid laws and tradition destroy human lives

To: mph who wrote (241726)	3/13/2008 5:34:23 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794337

I agree all laws should be enforced. I agree selective enforcement cannot be tolerated. I agree there is more than prostitution involved in this case. I am not suggesting any laws be ignored. The piece of the discussion I was addressing was about sex between consenting adults and I do question the appropriateness of the federal government managing sex between consenting adults with criminal laws. Favors for sex or as an inducement for sex between consenting adults is hardly a new human concept. Why make it unlawful? Could or would the prostitution part of this case have been made in the areas of Nevada where it is legal? I know there are religious views at stake here too. But in America I don't believe religious views are not supposed to become the basis for government control of natural human behavior.