Someone who is Spitz – Moon of Alabama

March 10, 2008

Someone who is Spitz

The name Spitzer seems to be of German descent. A spitzer is someone who is ‘spitz’. ‘Spitz’ in German translates to ‘pointy’ or ‘pointed’ in English. A German slang phrase ‘spitz’, derived form a male physiological analogy, translates to ‘horny’.

Just though you might wanted to know …

On the actually case I have two points to make:

Why is the press reporting that he was involved in a prostition ring? If I buy at Wal-Mart am I involved in retail sales company?

Spitzer seems to have been a simple customer here, client no 9, who had some problems arranging the nessessary deposit for the appointment and some unknown special wishes. But he seems to have been friendly and well paying. "Kristen" even said that she liked him.

Spitzer’s problem is, of course, his hypocrisy and he will resign.

But there is a bigger hypocrisy involved here which is to condemn contracts between consenting adults in a ‘free country’.

Posted by b on March 10, 2008 at 20:15 UTC | Permalink

Comments

meanwhile a real gangster like renzi receives no coverage at all

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Mar 10 2008 20:47 utc | 1

“If I buy at Wal-Mart am I involved in retail sales company?”
yep. You are involved in adding to their bottom line by being involved in shopping there.

Posted by: jcairo | Mar 10 2008 21:35 utc | 2

Sure, it’s quite ludicrous.
Then, at the same time, you’re in the USA, where this kind of crappy scandals is common and hurts politicians, and you want to run for office. You’d figure that prospective big pols would have figured since then that if they can keep quite and clean, it might be safer, since the crap will sooner or later come out of the closet; at least it might give you an edge and a valuable advantage against your opponent in an election.
I won’t blame him for what he’s done as such, I’d rather blame him for being silly enough not to play according to the unspoken rules to his own advantage.

Posted by: CluelessJoe | Mar 10 2008 22:05 utc | 3

The “honey trap”, well used by intelligence agencies. Ask Mr. Vanunu.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Mar 10 2008 22:19 utc | 4

#4
i’d say “horny trap”
and thanking b for the german slang lesson
😉

Posted by: rudolf | Mar 10 2008 22:27 utc | 5

Welcome to a world without FISA.
How many other other politicians have been as naughty as Spitzer? How easy is it for the Feds to tap you, find out what embarassing activities you are up to and release it to the world under the convinent cover of a federal investigation. How many politicians won’t even need an explicit threat. “Sorry, I’m not crossing Bush today. I have too many skeletons in the closet that they probably already know about. I don’t want to end up like Spitzer”.

Posted by: swio | Mar 10 2008 22:54 utc | 6

it was always fredo corleone’s job

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Mar 10 2008 22:57 utc | 7

& yes b
the headlines are a little like a 50’s tabloid – ‘teacher nabbed in commie spy ring – getting moscow gold’ – something like that – something that could neutralise any opposition.
it again seems like an interelite struggle – with spitzers focus on a certain type of capitalist scum – he has also been blind to the more genteel version of that scum

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Mar 10 2008 23:03 utc | 8

I’m with swio, who? police, FBI, Justice and how long and for what reason was Spitzers phone selectivly tapped? If they were tapping the prostitution ring who else was implicated. Sounds like another former governor of Alabama Siegelman thing to me.

Posted by: anna missed | Mar 11 2008 1:27 utc | 9

The real questions are: a. Is this Bushies favor to Wall Street. The traders actually cheered when they heard the news. b. It seems really timed to put a scandal in the middle of the democratic primary. c. Did the justice department target Spitzer for political purposes so Bloomberg can run? d. Why isn’t anyone calling for Vitters head? He was on the DC madam list.
Firedoglake has a good post about this. It looks like a setup. However, after Spitzers doggedness as an AG he should have known better. Revenge can be hell.

Posted by: jdp | Mar 11 2008 1:43 utc | 10

He was threatening to break up the monoline bond insurers

New York governor Eliot Spitzer has given monoline bond insurers up to five business days to find fresh capital, or face a potential break-up by state regulators who want to safeguard the municipal bond markets. The deadline was issued as Moody’s withdrew its triple-A credit rating for privately held Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, although positive comments elsewhere about MBIA and Ambac helped shares in these two listed insurers to recover somewhat on Thursday. New York regulators are considering a division of the bond insurers into a “good bank, bad bank” structure, where the monoline insurers’ municipal bond businesses would be separated from their riskier activities, such as guaranteeing complex structured securities

This was a few weeks ago. What a coincidence.
Also, Same day that the House filed a suit to enforce subpoenas against former White House counsel Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten. US House files suit to enforce subpoenas against 2 White House officials
See if this gets as much coverage in the propagenda press.
So…no doubt Spitzer was under surveillance by FBI/CIA/NSA to get something on him.
When they had it, they waited until they NEEDED it for a diversion from White House crimes.
That’s how the game is played amongst the big boys!

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Mar 11 2008 5:15 utc | 11

Well, at least it was upscale hookers and not little boys.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Mar 11 2008 5:33 utc | 12

Why do “family values” translate into an inordinate interest in other people’s private affairs? How about valuing the family: i.e., making it possible for parents to feed, insure and educate their children?

Posted by: ralphieboy | Mar 11 2008 8:29 utc | 13

Re: jdp @ 10
Jane asks some good questions:

1. Why would the bank tell the IRS and not Spitzer himself if there was a suspicious transfer? Spitzer is a longtime client, a rich guy and the governor. We’re talking thousands of dollars here, not millions. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense that they spotted a “suspicious transfer” made by the governor, and that this is how things began. It’s possible it was just ordinary paperwork the bank had to file with the government whenever some particular flag was raised, but if that’s the case, why did the DoJ go to DefCon 3?
2. What is a USA doing prosecuting a prostitution case? This isn’t normally what the feds spend their time with.
3. Mike Garcia is a Chertoff crony. Sources familiar with the investigation say that he sent a prosecution memo to DC two months ago asking for authority to indict a public figure (Spitzer). Which means they had their case made long before the wire tap of February 13. Why did they then include this line from that conversation in the complaint?
LEWIS continued that from what she had been told “he” (believed to be a reference to Client-9) “would ask you to do things that, like, you might not think were safe — you know — I mean that…very basic things….”Kristen” responded: “I have a way of dealing with that…I’d be like listen dude, you really want the sex?…You know what I mean.”
This salacious detail does not seem like it’s necessary to make their case, and appears to be added for no other purpose than to destroy Spitzer’s career.
4. How did Spitzer’s name get leaked to the media, and who did it? Didn’t happen to Dave Vitter.
5. Why did Mike Bloomberg suddenly start talking about running for governor recently? And why did he give $500,000 to Joe Bruno? He’s good buddies with Mike Mukasey. What did he know and how did he know it?
6. The Mann Act? Are you kidding?
7. Spitzer’s been in the line of fire of the GOP hit squad for a while. Roger Stone, Roger Stone, Roger Stone.
There are all kinds of things about this that just don’t pass the smell test.

Posted by: Hamburger | Mar 11 2008 11:02 utc | 14

it seems theres some kind of honor-code within the “establishment” to exempt language that threatens the myth that “they” are somehow different from the rest us. Like: pimp, hooker, trick …

Posted by: jony_b_cool | Mar 11 2008 11:38 utc | 15

wow, thanks again Uncle (11,12) and others. But how could finance be important?
occam active wears
thin over the
fleeced.

Posted by: plushtown | Mar 11 2008 14:07 utc | 16

@15 – why does this myth work on so many people and yet some, like the regulars here, can see through it?
The evidence is there of a global capitalist system that is fundamentally flawed and is driven by the chaos of war-profiteering as led by the US in Butlerian terms.
It is not a natural system, like the weather, just because it was created by a creature of nature. These creatures have unnatural motives that are evidently far out of tune with nature and these motives will obviously skew the capitalist system from the theoretical norm of a free hand.
Yet somehow, great numbers of these creatures assume only people of some kind of unnatural moral/ethical purity reach the upper heirarchy and are indeed, above us mundanes. They assume that whatever comes down from on high is the best choice for all – including the planet – and their personal involvemnt begins and ends with voting.
I would like to think that some of the fine posts here do influence people, and change their minds or their outlook on this beautiful bleu marble and how we molest it; or how they should view their own government (where ever that might be) with a more critical eye.
imho, most people’s thoughts on politics are far shallower than the depths plumbed here. I would be pleased with an increase in political involvement if the newbies displayed the savvy of this group, but I don’t think that’s the case.
There are things known as facts and nobody owns them…

Posted by: jcairo | Mar 11 2008 18:18 utc | 17

If Spitzer had the balls( he has a D after his name so probaly not), he’d say… I’ll resign after David Vitter (R-La resigns.

Posted by: Ben | Mar 11 2008 18:37 utc | 18

i’d advise people to read judge giovanni falcone’s little book about the semiology of the mafia – he uses the case of the general della chiesi – where he sd mafia protocol was always to ridiculise their opponents, then isolate them & then destroy them
as with spiegleman i don’t doubt at all there there is at least some basis in fact – but it is a fact they share with their whole political class & it is clear if that all the people in public office are in one way or another in the current climate – indictable
& as i have sd repeatedly u s jurisprudence is so much junk – it doesn’t & perhaps never had a legal leg to stand on

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Mar 11 2008 21:47 utc | 19

Ben, @18
I can’t let you perpetuate that myth, it has nothing to do w/balls; this “incompetence”, “coward” no spine, meme has to stop.
These guys/gals have plenty of cockiness, they are resolutely intrepid in their craven ambition. You can’t be in politics as it is today, unless you have opportunism in your blood, and a willingness to sale your grandmother for a few shekel’s. Public servants these guys ain’t. More like self and only self servants.
I have said before, — and I sincerely believe, that they believe — that they are hero’s and chosen ones, and by mere station are above the riffraff of the average citizen.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Mar 12 2008 3:21 utc | 20

Addendum:
Further, the idea of the religious sense of vocation or “calling” has been pivotal within Protestantism. … Calvinism. God has shined on me, and you, you, are beneath me sorta attitude.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Mar 12 2008 3:27 utc | 21

For occasions like this, it’s obvious that one skips NYT for insight & skips right on over to listen to Heidi Fleiss’ words:
It’s so easy not to not get caught,” reformed Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss tells Radar, adding that she provided service to many a well known politician her day. “I saw many famous people—more famous than Eliot Spitzer—and you know what, you pay people right, you treat them right, you don’t have a problem.” The devil, she says, was in Spitzer’s particular freak, which left the gals who are alleged to have serviced him describing the governor as “difficult,” with demands that involved “things that, like, you might not think were safe.”
“I’m sure he wanted anal sex without condoms,” Fleiss says, speculating but strangely confident.
…
“I think think he’s an arrogant prick and he thinks he’s above the law; no one likes a hypocrite,” Fleiss tells Radar.Fleiss Advice: Avoiding an Eliot Mess

Posted by: jj | Mar 12 2008 5:18 utc | 22

I’m surprised that no one here has made what seems to me to be an obvious conjecture: Spitzer was “taken out” by a honey trap because he would be an obvious and (heretofore valuable) Obama running mate. I can offer no evidence of any type, nor do I expect any, it’s just an idea waiting to be debunked. The one think I can’t believe is that, like Chief
Constable Todd’s death yesterday, this is “mere coincidence” with no involvement by any intelligence agency.

Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Mar 12 2008 5:52 utc | 23

Let us not forget, sexual trysts and deviance and the Bush White House, goes a long way back.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Mar 12 2008 10:24 utc | 24

Once again, find your puke bucket…
This is not a joke…
YouTube: Secret Video: Bush Sings Farewell Song

Bush jokes with members of press in ‘off the record’ song and dance routine captured secretly on cell phone video at Annual Gridiron Dinner (03/09/08)

Well, he is a joke, but this really happened. Sorta like his ‘haves and have’s not’ performance, and joking around about not finding the ‘weapons of mass destruction’…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Mar 12 2008 11:24 utc | 25

@ HKOL – More likely a Clinton running mate: link

It took Romney nearly a day to erase the toe-tapping Craig last August. It took Clinton less than an hour. That’s the long experience of the Clinton machine at work.
But chances are you won’t hear the New York senator say anything other than sympathy for the family and “I’m not going to comment on an ongoing legal case.” The reason may be sensitivity for Spitzer, now in seclusion.
Or it could also have something to do with Spitzer being a super-delegate, one of those cherished high-falutin’ unelected convention votes that may well decide who gets the Democratic nomination for president. At the moment he is pledged to Clinton.

Posted by: beq | Mar 12 2008 11:25 utc | 26

ZMYGOD!…HAHAHAHAHA…
Dr. Laura blames Spitzer’s wife for scandal.
You really have to read/see this.
Geez…
oh, btw 25 should have been on the OT, sorry about that…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Mar 12 2008 12:43 utc | 27

P.S., for the full monty, (pun intended?) see this comment…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Mar 12 2008 13:21 utc | 28

@ beq Thanks for the additional information. Still, a Clinton-Spitzer
ticket is impossible for constitutional reasons (both from the same state),
while an Obama-Spitzer ticket would have made a lot of electoral sense.

Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Mar 12 2008 16:49 utc | 29

@21 – but now it has been kind of twisted around in on itself
protestants originally thought the mother church too flashy and self aggrandizing for both the organization and its ranking members
they preferred a more austere mode of worship focusing more on the deity and less on the trappings
today bling or your own success is a sign or proof of, as you say, god shining on you
Luke 14:26-33 and 18:18-22 should put that idea to rest

Posted by: jcairo | Mar 12 2008 17:45 utc | 30

This is one of many small fry that the shrub policy of stacking the us attorney’s office will cause to reel in over the next 6 months. It should be entertaining since everyone likes to see a hypocrite unmasked.
However citizens would be wise to ask what the hell is going on when much needed law enforcement officers are wasting resources on harrassing peeps for playing hide the sausage.
The IRS had a task force dedicated into studying the finances of senior dems. Why the IRS well they can do this stuff without using any post 911 patriot act style legislation. The IRS has been able to do this stuff for ever, but previously hasn’t had a Justice department so determined to abuse their role.
Back in October 07 when the ‘suspicious transactions’ were uncovered the US attorney dedicated a heap of resources to track Spitzer. This included several expensive to train and maintain, critically needed for major white collar and organised crime, surveillance teams to the task of catching Spitzer ‘at business time’. They paid prostitutes through half assed witness protection programs to help set Spitzer up then they ‘turned’ the real crims, the pimps who live off of these women’s earnings so they could also assist in Spitzer’s entrapment.
Spitzer is dead meat but anyone living in a city riddled with white collar crime as NY is should be asking “what’s going on?” Why is the guvmint worrying about petty crime when they don’t have enough resources to get the big crooks. Teams of forensic accountants, attorneys and experienced fraud investigators spent six months chasing a john?
The pols won’t do it. If a dem president wins this year they will run a new broom through justice and replace the US attorneys who were repub attack dogs with ones prepared to be dem attack dogs. So the citizens protection will stay at the bottom of their priorities.

Posted by: A Hoon | Mar 12 2008 19:23 utc | 31

Good one @31 A Hoon,
These things have been going on a long time, to get rid of these sinners we need go all retro and bring back the 1910 Mann act:

* Hoke v. United States (227 U.S. 308, 322) (1913). The Court held that Congress could not regulate prostitution per se, as that was strictly the province of the states. Congress could, however, regulate interstate travel for purposes of prostitution or “immoral purposes.”
* Athanasaw v. United States (227 U.S. 326, 328) (1913). The Court decided that the law was not limited strictly to prostitution, but to “debauchery” as well.
* Caminetti v. United States (242 U.S. 470, 484-85) (1917). The Court decided that the Mann Act applied not strictly to purposes of prostitution, but to other noncommercial consensual sexual liaisons. Thus consensual extramarital sex falls within the genre of “immoral sex.”
* Gebardi v. United States (287 U.S. 112) (1932). The Court held that the statutory intent was not to punish a woman’s acquiescence; therefore, consent by the woman does not expose her to liability.
* Cleveland v. United States (329 U.S. 14, 16-17) (1946). The Court decided that a person can be prosecuted under the Mann Act even when married to the woman if the marriage is polygamous. Thus polygamous marriage was determined to be an “immoral purpose.”
* Bell v. United States (349 U.S. 81, 83) (1955). The Supreme Court decided that simultaneous transportation of two women across state lines constituted only one violation of the Mann Act, not two violations.

Now that a precedent, no?
Vice Prohibition!!! War on sex and amoral behavior!!!

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Mar 13 2008 2:13 utc | 32

This was no ordinary entrapment. Spitzer is despised by everyone. The magnitude of the hatred across the board cannot be underestimated. And he was the guy the Soros-Rubin Party had in the Pipeline of Narcissists for the Presidency. First up – Oybamination, then Spitzer, finally if all goes well, the equally abominable Al Franken who they’re just disgracing Paul Wellstone’s memory by dumping in his seat. Hopefully they’ll clean out the rest of the hornets nest, so they’re forced to find someone who cares about more than themselves, their power & aggrandizement. (That said, his wife looks like a thoroughly decent human being & I feel badly that she is being dragged through this abomination – not to mention his 3 adolescent children.)

Posted by: jj | Mar 13 2008 2:49 utc | 33

Indeed, jcairo @30
THE WEDGE STRATEGY
Praise Jesus or Allah!…lol

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Mar 13 2008 3:47 utc | 34

Bound not gagged…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Mar 13 2008 3:53 utc | 35

I keep forgetting to post this tidbit, which is prob. the Tip of the Iceberg in answer to the question of why AIPAC has so much power. The Pimp who ran this whorehouse had Not One But Two Israeli Passports along w/the usual shitpile of cash in his safes. I’m unable to link to article in NY Post in which this was mentioned, but perhaps someone else will be able to.

Posted by: jj | Mar 13 2008 4:06 utc | 36

I guess I don’t see how the extreme liberal views on prostitution (legalization/normalization)(or pornography) is very different than extreme right views on arranged marriages and doweries.

Posted by: anna missed | Mar 13 2008 9:00 utc | 37

don’t forget Yaweh
isn’t it all one and the same astrology anyway? So, what’s the rumpus?
nice link @34, he pixelates as he listens to Everything Must Go, was that satire?
if you want to sell your body that is up to you, why should it matter if I find it immoral (and I do)
however, you can’t force someone to be a plumber and given the current regulatory climate, I doubt legalization would do much to clean up the nastier aspects of the sex trade

Posted by: jcairo | Mar 13 2008 9:42 utc | 38

What Role did Langone Play in Spitzer’s Fall?

Conspiracy theorists are having a field day with the Eliot Spitzer story, and they have good reason: Wall Street titan Ken Langone, one of Spitzer’s archest of enemies, made it sound as though there’s more to the story.
…
While what Spitzer did was a violation of the public trust, Langone’s comments suggest it wasn’t just the IRS doing its job that did him in. The biz press (especially Charlie, who is close to Langone) should be trying to figure out what Langone meant in his interview. (Would be a helluva scoop, Charlie, a helluva scoop.)
It was Charlie, after all, who in 2005 wrote in New York Magazine on the Spitzer/Langone feud: “Gesticulating with his big hands, he looks at me and says pointedly, “One way or another, Spitzer is going to pay for what he’s done to me and the havoc he’s caused in the New York business climate.”
So, let me ask the question again: What role did Langone play? Inquiring minds do want to know. I called Langone’s office and was told he’d have to get back to me. Yeah, right. I won’t be holding my breath for a return call.

Posted by: b | Mar 13 2008 10:19 utc | 39

b,
I watched the CNBC special on Spitzer last night, and even the business news reporters believe Langone had something to do with. One, who’s last name is Neale, believes he was targeted by the IRS and justice politically at Langones behest.
If this can be proved, and if Spitzers track record is any indication, he won’t be the only one going down. It was even suggested that Langone hired Private Investigators to track Spitzer. Lagone said a friend of his stood behind Spitzer in a bank and watched Spitzer buy money orders to send to hookers. How would he know that unless he was investigating Spitzer with a PI or had inside info from DOJ. This is one to watch, because dirt is going to fly. And, this Kirsten gal will become famous.

Posted by: jdp | Mar 13 2008 11:18 utc | 40

Uncle’s #11 seems causal, but I’m not sure Spitzer isn’t in on the whole brouhaha. Roles can be played, as J.P. Morgan being apprenticed in London to Rothschilds before his Civil War wonderfulness and receiving this tribute in 1907 playing a virulent anti-semite all his adult life. (Course might be anti-semitic to all actual Jews, as I think are Rothschilds – why not help out Ben Hecht trying to rescue Hungarian Jews before they went camping?
He didn’t use his legal victory against the 2001 Bush ad’s lowering of central a.c. efficiency standards (“global warming policy is not complicated”) in his gubernatorial campaign, even on his website.
“Victory for common sense. Why use 12 1/2% more of ever pricier electricity, increasing mercury polution and so miscarriages, driving up oil, coal and electricity prices, for 15-18 seasons to save an average of $123 on a $2-5,000 item that comes with the new house and so is financed anyway? And Spence Abraham said it was to help the consumer “especially the low income consumer” to make you think their “over $102″ was on window units and would go up like government numbers always do.”
“Spitzer Spits Green!”
Would serve as distraction to women, men, journalists and other prostitutes, warning to all that banks rule (but not really, no one here but us financiers and we already have everything we want, lots of snuff films, caviar, no need to hurt a fly) and puts a legally blind guy in Governor’s office (hope Benson’s available). (Actually, he might be great, Indonesia’s ex President totally blind Abdurrahmman Wahid is reportedly the only politician there the Australians consider not corrupt like Lazarus pre-makeover.)

Posted by: plushtown | Mar 13 2008 15:16 utc | 41

NYT answers or hints at answers to specific questions raised here. Yes, GWOT legislation features prominently. The NYT describes the legal trail to the charges, which began last summer.
One supposes that before the NYT narrative starts, illegal wiretaps or one of Langone’s PIs came first. Possibly even wiretaps under some gross, Executive, wartime order, with threats to treat all telecommunications companies as it treated Qwest, driven to bankruptcy, if they refused to comply, as Qwest had refused.
Once the avengers had whatever they needed on Spitzer, they channeled it through legal processes. This is where NYT narrative begins.
Two banks, which Spitzer as AG had investigated, planted(*cough!/*)filed the reports of suspicious activity. First, in July 2007 North Fork put a flag on Spitzer’s account for wire transfers so minor, not even illegal, that it went unnoticed by federal authorities. Until September, when HSBC flagged the holding company of Empire prostitution for possible money laundering. Somehow the account had been set up without “due diligence” required by law.
This second report sparked the federal investigative activity, which then discovered the earlier flag on Spitzer’s account, waiting for them. That’s the official legal trail.
As NYT implies circumspectly, in both reporting cases, even with all that convenient Patriot, GWOT legislation, the banks had to stretch the requirements of these laws to justify their zeal for making reports that would lead to Spitzer. When was the last time banks fell over themselves in excessive compliance with federal regulation? And HSBC, the same bank that set up the holding company account with no oversight or questions asked, suddenly was moved to ask questions, after Spitzer had left his footprints to it?
So no dirty finger prints lead to the powerful. But enough pointers and whispers that no one will miss the point. A cautionary tale about not crossing the wrong interests.
And just at a time when taxpayers are beginning a massive bailout of a rapacious, corrupt, and bankrupt financial sector.
Did Spitzer really miss it? Had hubris grown so great? What iceberg is still hidden outside the public spotlight, as the serious negotiation starts? Or is it already over?

Posted by: small coke | Mar 13 2008 22:11 utc | 42

jj
the guy running the whorehouse is called Mark Brener

Posted by: dan of steele | Mar 13 2008 22:47 utc | 43

Thanks, DoS. I assume no one around here is actually asking if this is a setup, but rather is puzzling out the particular nature of the, shall we say, “public-private partnership” that got it done. Since Spitzer was not trying to regulate Wall St, as he has been strictly under Rubin’s wing – according to NYT – I find it EXTREMELY DISTURBING & DISTRESSING that the crooks have so taken over the asylum that someone who was merely trying to keep them from drowning themselves – and the country – in their own excrement became a target. If that’s the case, there is no just no hope for restraining the organized crime that has taken over the govt – as CAustin Fitts has documented – and now “business” & Wall St. as well.
That said, it definitely does not help that Spitzer was so out of control in his narcissistic rages that he could work w/no one; hence his own party was as relieved to be rid of him, as anyone involved in criminality. (Big article in recent Vanity Fair on this, as I’ve previously mentioned – that’s why I bought it.) But since he was being such a good boy in following Bobby Rubin’s instructions, he earned a big front page art. in NYT w/in last week-10 days, saying what a good boy he’d been recently. Maybe this was a warning that he still had very powerful protectors as well as some good PR for the masses following his rip-aparat in Vanity Fair over Christmas.
In any event, I was hoping Catherine Austin Fitts would get on the wire & see what she could find out for us. Naturally, she got on it pronto. Ever gracious hostess, she offers these Appetizers from her time in govt., while we wait. Sex, Money & Power at the highest levels of govt.

Posted by: jj | Mar 14 2008 3:29 utc | 44

Interesting piece on Spitzer by prostitution researcher Sudhir Venkatesh that claims Spitzer likely got caught because he chose the lower priced prostitute. Thats right, the lower ($3500) priced prostitute contracting through an escort service.

Posted by: anna missed | Mar 15 2008 3:05 utc | 45

nice catch jj. Don’t miss the first comment.

Posted by: ciizen | Mar 15 2008 4:14 utc | 46

Governor Eliot Spitzer may have been trapped in an Israeli government sex operation
Also, fwiw…Andy Martin in chicago tribune which has been moved says, “THE MOSSAD’S FINGERPRINTS ARE ALL OVER THIS ONE…”
THE COMBINATION OF INTERNATIONAL SEX AND MONEY LAUNDERING ARE CLASSIC CLUES THAT ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE WAS TROLLING FOR BLACKMAIL TARGETS, OFFERING PROTECTION IN EXCHANGE FOR SEXUAL DOSSIERS

(CHICAGO)(March 14, 2008)(Exclusive) New York Governor Eliot Spitzer may have stumbled into a prostitution ring run under the auspices of the Israeli government, namely the Mossad, says Andy Martin.
“The Emperors Club was exclusively targeting prominent individuals,”
ContrarianCommentary.com executive editor Andy Martin notes. “It is entirely possible that Spitzer was assured that his participation in the prostitution ring was protected precisely because it was run by an Israeli asset.
“Israel is the bane of U. S. federal authorities that combat money laundering. Tel Aviv is one of the money laundering capitals of the world. Mark Brener, who ran Emperors Club VIP, was an Israeli citizen; he was stockpiling two Israeli passports in his apartment. He also had $600,000 in cash on hand. Prosecutors appear to have moved in because the FBI was concerned Brener was about to make a drop in Israel. Published reports significantly understate the financial operations of this international prostitution operation.
“People don’t like to talk about it but sexual entrapment and fulfillment are some of the basic forms of espionage and blackmail. Straight and gay ‘partners,’ ‘rough stuff’ and more are all kept at the ready by the world’s major intelligence agencies. Mark Brener does not appear to have been a spy per se. He appears to have traded information for immunity and money laundering. But he could have been a low-level type of ‘sleeper cell,’ an asset that operated quietly and obviously without any official cover.
“The volume of electronic surveillance is a clear tip-off that the Department of Justice knew they were working with a ‘connected’ prostitution operation. Thousands of calls and e-mails were monitored in a brief period. No one monitoring that volume of traffic was focused only on Eliot Spitzer. The claim that the probe began with him is thus somewhat disingenuous; investigators were quickly casting a much wider net.
“Because the federal government did not want to be caught in an embarrassing Jonathan Pollard moment again, prosecutors asked that Brener be detained without bail. Although Israelis are barred from intelligence operations in the United States, they are addicted to surveillance and penetration inside our society and institutions. Illinoisans on the other hand are obsessed with the identity of ‘Client 10.’ Well. [See:
“We don’t yet have the ‘smoking gun’ on this one but our sources within Israel confirm that we are on the right track. Sex for information for money for protection is a classic Mossad m.o. Brener was laundering the cash in Israel where large sums would not draw attention, particularly when deposited in government-influenced banks. This is a sensitive case.
“Significantly, the Spitzer sex sting has been handled very gingerly by Israeli media. The coverage is extremely subdued for news involving one of the highest elected Jewish officials in the United States, who was priming himself to be the first Jewish president,” says Martin. “It is almost as though they are aware of the submerged Israeli intelligence angle to the story, and are working to put some hard facts on the circumstantial evidence. …

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