Entries Tagged as 'Spitzer'
12 March 2008 · Comments Off
What has to be my favorite comment to reports of Spitzer’s misdeeds comes from the mother of John Cole at Balloon Juice:
Good Lord!
Good Lord!
He was obviously paying too much. What can you possibly do for $5,000 an hour? Surgery. Life-saving surgery performed on me is worth $5,000 an hour.
Good Lord
You know, health care issues are considered to be at the top of the priority list, based on public interest in politicians’ talking points. I’ve commented previously that the cost of care, inflated in part due to inefficiencies in the system, is where I believe the core of the problem is.
So, let’s say that we were to move to a government funded program and, by some miracle, got costs under control.
I can only speculate on how the politicians could use the excess funds to celebrate….
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Crime · New York · Spitzer
12 March 2008 · Comments Off
I guess another round of congratulations are in order for Barak Obama. He picked up 5 more delegates than Hillary by winning Mississippi Tuesday night…and Hillary loses one superdelegate due to Client 9’s resignation.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if at Denver, Hillary lost by one delegate?
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2008 Elections · Hillary · Mississippi · Obama · Spitzer
11 March 2008 · Comments Off
My goodness….what is it about these mighty foes of business being brought low by suspicions of bribery…or where those suspicions might lead?
From ABC’s Blotter:
The federal investigation of a New York prostitution ring was triggered by Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s suspicious money transfers, initially leading agents to believe Spitzer was hiding bribes, according to federal officials.
It was only months later that the IRS and the FBI determined that Spitzer wasn’t hiding bribes but payments to a company called QAT, what prosecutors say is a prostitution operation operating under the name of the Emperors Club.[...]
The suspicious financial activity was initially reported by a bank to the IRS which, under direction from the Justice Department, brought kin the FBI’s Public Corruption Squad.
“We had no interest at all in the prostitution ring until the thing with Spitzer led us to learn about it,” said one Justice Department official.
Of course, now that that’s cleared up, I’m sure that the financial faux pas is what the media will focus on, right? 
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Crime · New York · Spitzer
10 March 2008 · Comments Off
In case you’ve been in a cave for the past few hours, New York Governor and former A.G. Elliot Spitzer is having a rough day, thanks to word emerging of his apparent under-the-covers support for an institution of the world’s oldest profession.
One wonders if Dickie Scruggs is breathing a sigh of relief over the likelihood that the heat of media attention will be shifted to a different foe of the insurance industry for a while.
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Crime · New York · Spitzer
