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If they wanted to, the Feds could have busted this prostitution ring quickly and easily with little fanfare. Instead, they wiretapped 5000 phone calls and read 6000 private emails to find salacious details about Spitzer that they could leak to the press. Sickening.

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crespi
March 15, 2008, 9:50 a.m.
Spitzer was the main guy standing up against corporate fraud who could nail some of them.
THAT'S why they "so suddenly" got him.
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TonyByron
March 15, 2008, 2:21 p.m.
FTA: "Once federal authorities concluded that the "suspicious financial transactions" attributed to Mr. Spitzer did not fit into any of the paradigms for which the statutes were enacted, they should have closed the investigation. It's simply none of the federal government's business that a man may have been moving his own money around in order to keep his wife in the dark about his private sexual peccadilloes."
The statutes were enacted to catch people moving money to avoid the $10,000 trigger under SAR (suspicious activity report)
His bank reported the activity, the feds investigated and in the course of that found Spitzer had shifted funds into at least one shell account of the prostitution ring. It also appears he was in violation of the Mann act.
This article seems to suggest that this should have been "overlooked". The crime-busting Democratic governor of New York should get a pass? The one who busted prostitution rings in the past?
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kboy
March 15, 2008, 7:54 p.m.
Lets see: Undeclared transfers of large sums of money into international accounts. Possible misuse of election funds.
Violations of the Mann Act. All used against a man known for using technical violation of the law to leak reputation-ruining stories to the NYTimes. Being overturned by higher Courts for illegal and unethical prosecution. Coludn't happen to a nicer Superdelegate. At least he had the decency to resign unlike slick Willy.
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eugenegerard
March 15, 2008, 9:44 p.m.
I do not support Spitzer. I did notice that he made some banker enemies. The banks turned him into the Feds.
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stephen-johnson
March 15, 2008, 11:07 p.m.
"Spitzer: a Victim of Police State Tactics"
What BS - Spitzer is hardly a "victim." He's a hypocrite that got caught with his pants down. Unfortunately, the fed prosecutors of the case won't go after him as unethically as he went after Ace Greenberg of AIG. Too bad - it would be poetic justice to have Spitzer do a perp walk.
I don't sink many stories, but this one can't slide by.
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tanglang
March 16, 2008, 12:51 a.m.
Well Jordan I guess we are back to disagreeing. I have to say that Spitzer was as corrupt as they come. This man vowed to end prostitution in Ny yet now it appears that all he was doing was eliminating the competition.
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indlalaswein
June 9, 2008, 12:17 p.m.
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You can see the giant cleft between Liberterians, Real "Liberals" and those using the name like Dershowitz. That is Liberterians believe the law has gone too far and it is simply a tool for the federal government to trap and imprision anyone it chooses. Dershowitz thinks that the benevolent government should just stop in its tracks now that it is on the hunt.
The only answer to respect the liberty of citizens is to cancel these laws at both the state and federal levels.
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flaminizxs
June 9, 2008, 1:48 p.m.
Several libertartians have made this observation on the LRC site. Interestingly, their views are echoed on the Left by Alan Dershowitz in the March 13 Wall Street Journal.His bank reported the activity, the feds investigated and in the course of that found Spitzer had shifted funds into at least one shell account of the prostitution ring. It also appears he was in violation of the Mann act.
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torreszaaa
June 13, 2008, 2:27 a.m.
This good article makes me think a lot of Robespierre, founding fater of the French revolution, fighting for the freedom of the people.
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impbaby1
June 26, 2008, 8:46 p.m.
good post
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earleneganesa
June 28, 2008, 3:13 a.m.
I do not think this was prosecutorial abuse. I do think that he was treated the same way he treated others. How many lives did he ruin with his overzealous prosecutorial abuse? He was a victim of his own doing.