Ironic, isn’t it that today’s featured online call girl service called itself the “Emperors Club?” Only this time it is the Governor who has no clothes. Actually, we have been left to imagine what Elliot Spitzer was – or was not –wearing on Valentine’s Eve at the Mayflower Hotel in
No, Governor Elliot Spitzer, the self-styled guardian of Wall Street’s ethics and protector of public morality was trysting the night away with a 5’5” 105 pound American brunette hooker who later reported to her handler that he was not “difficult” even if he had a penchant for things that “you might not think were safe.”
Do you think that he had a standing order for “American” prostitutes? No illegal immigrants for this patriot and family man, now known simply as “Client 9.”
Federal investigators first sniffed that something was up when they received reports that Spitzer had been transferring money to dummy corporations – sparking suspicions of bribery or payoffs. Instead, the shell companies had been set-up by the Emperors Club so that high-profile johns like Spitzer could make payments seem innocuous. Wouldn’t want the wife to see a $4,300 credit card receipt from the Emperor’s Club or the Governor’s special Valentine, Kristen.
Spitzer’s Wall Street targets may not be dancing in the streets just yet, but who doubts they raised a glass or three last night to toast the imminent demise of a mean-spirited self-righteous hypocrite who was caught with his pants down and his cash on the nightstand. Spitzer may have made his bones as the guardian of public ethics and protector of investors, but Wall Street found his “take no prisoners” approach repugnant. Take for example, his determined efforts to unseat former NYSE Chief, Dick Grasso. Spitzer spearheaded a relentless campaign against Grasso based, in essence, on claims that Grasso was overpaid. And, like a neighborhood bully, he reportedly threatened to take action against prominent investment bankers if they did not admit wrongdoing and pay eye-popping fines – even when his “evidence” scarcely supported his charges.
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