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To: Mike Johnston who wrote (76645)	3/21/2008 6:16:04 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Maybe it was the money transfers then. I heard a report on NPR interviewing his bank about the transfers (to cash or whatever) and they talked about the requirement mandate that they plod though the data to catch money launderers etc, and that scrutiny of politicians is higher (to find out about racketeering or blackmail I presume), and that the regulations which triggered the investigation were pushed through by Spizer himself. Another case of a person who believes he can outsmart the system. As for why hiring a prostitute warrants his resignation where hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars following lies... oh never mind. We have our priorities!

To: Mike Johnston who wrote (76645)	3/21/2008 11:38:19 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 116555

Ok, that sounds right from what I remember. It was to a ring of shell companies, right? Not that I need to know... it's pathetic all the way around how this was front page news and torpedoed his career, but the final conversion to a fascist republic has been met with corporate applause. At the time, I viewed his situation as one where he unwittingly became the 'identified patient' -- our sick social system fingered him as the cause of all the political and financial trouble. The last identified patient was Martha Stewart. In both cases, the key point is that they weren't even in the same universe of misdeeds, but garnered 1000x the press coverage and suffered real ramifications.