A week of all Spitzer, all the time
This has been quite a week for the Spitzer family. Silda Wall Spitzer, the wife of New York’s infamous ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer, made the news yesterday for joining a New York hedge fund. Eliot Spitzer’s father, Bernard Spitzer, testified in court as a defendant in a discrimination lawsuit brought by African Americans who were fired from their jobs in a building owned by the real estate mogul.
A Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, woman pleaded guilty today for her involvement in a high-class prostitution ring that was the downfall for Eliot Spitzer. She was a booker for Emperors Club VIP. Spitzer resigned as governor in March after it came to light that he was an active customer of Emperors Club VIP. The Dutchess County woman was the fourth and final employee charged in connection with the scandal. Prosecutors recently announced they were dropping all charges against Eliot Spitzer.
The New York Times reported this afternoon that a congressional committee will investigate the circumstances surrounding Eliot Spitzer’s bank transactions being flagged, which led to revelations that he was a client of Emperors Club VIP. The panel will probe whether political retribution was involved. Before being elected governor in 2006, Spitzer was an aggressive state attorney general who became known as the Sheriff of Wall Street.
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Everyone wonders what’s wrong with this woman for staying with this nasty stick insect. With all their scores of millions, she chooses to “join a hedge fund,” instead of volunteering for something or other at a place where help is needed and would be welcomed. Kind of sums it up.
Ed1,
There are a number of women out there (and I think Cindy Adams was one of them) who suggested that Mrs. Spitzer was more than relieved to have her husband get his seeds planted in another garden-so long as it was not public and she could live in her accustomed lifestyle…which might explain the non-volunteering. I believe she might be in it for the money.