{"id":4921,"date":"2008-03-10T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/spitzer-linked-to-prostitution.html"},"modified":"2008-03-10T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T16:25:07","slug":"spitzer-linked-to-prostitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/spitzer-linked-to-prostitution.html","title":{"rendered":"Spitzer Linked to Prostitution Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess his ethics reform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/10\/nyregion\/10cnd-spitzer.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=login\">didn&#8217;t include prostitution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning.<br \/>\nMr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He scheduled an announcement for 2:15 after inquiries from the Times.<br \/>\nMr. Spitzer, a first term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform an end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nAs attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state\u2019s organized crime task force.<br \/>\nIn one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.<br \/>\n\u201c\u201dThis was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,\u201d Mr. Spitzer said at the time. \u201dIt was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe he was doing some undercover work for the feds<br \/>\nUpdate: If he really was for ethical reform, don&#8217;t you <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/10\/americas-worst-governor-linked-to-hookers\/\">think he should have resigned<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess his ethics reform didn&#8217;t include prostitution: Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning. Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spitzer Linked to Prostitution Ring - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/spitzer-linked-to-prostitution.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spitzer Linked to Prostitution Ring - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I guess his ethics reform didn&#8217;t include prostitution: Gov. 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