Governor Spitzer: Client Number Nine
by Jeff Davis
This is one of those stories where you’d have to be living in a cave on Mars not to have seen it on the tube or in the papers. Everybody and his dog should be familiar with the details. New York’s Jewish governor Eliot Spitzer (a Democrat of course) held a press conference today announcing that he had been caught on tape with his trousers down by the FBI. Governor Spitzer’s wife (visibly in shock) was standing by his side at the podium while hubby sobbed and rent his garments at the shame of it all, but she didn’t say anything. She looked catatonic, with a thousand-yard stare, and I am convinced the poor woman had to be on some powerful anti-depressant. Talk about pure humiliation!
The Smoking Gun reports “New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been implicated in a prostitution ring. The Democratic politician will now always be known as ‘Client-9,’ one of the johns described in a recently unsealed FBI affidavit detailing the operation of the Emperors Club, an international call girl ring. That document, an excerpt of which you’ll find below, describes hooker interactions with 10 johns, including one client who paid cash for a February 13 rendezvous at a Washington, D.C. hotel. The New York Times, which broke the Spitzer story, has identified the 48-year-old politician as Client-9.” (more…)