Thursday, March 13, 2008

Good News: Spitzer Still Facing Charges

We still have Eliot Spitzer to kick around, and honestly, we're relishing every bit of it.

Maybe he should have thought about the 10,000-pound anvil named karma crashing down on him when he was beating up on innocent people, ruining lives, and throwing thousand of dollars around on prostitutes.

So word this morning is this stooge faces a host of charges, according to "experts" in the know.
Experts say "Client 9" could face the following charges:

* Money laundering for trying to conceal the source and recipient of financial transactions.
* Tax evasion, if he was a knowing party to an all-cash business that wasn't filing taxes.
* Violation of the Mann Act for paying for the trip from New York to D.C. by the call girl known as "Kristen."
* Misuse of state resources, if he used his state-issued credit card for hotels or meals with prostitutes as well as if he was being protected by State Troopers during his dalliances.
* And finally, soliciting prostitution.

There's also the question of whether Spitzer used campaign funds for these trysts, which opens up a whole other litany of charges from fraud to federal election violations.
We can only hope he was dumb enough to do that.
Court documents and published reports indicate perhaps as much as $80,000 were transferred from Spitzer's account to a trio of dummy companies that were fronts for the escort service.
Meanwhile, Spitzer's wife Silda has booted the Love Guv from the bedroom of their posh Fifth Avenue pad, where, thanks to his daddy, he lives rent-free.

Don't feel that sorry for Silda though, as she's also a bit of a hypocrite.
A decade ago, as she watched then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton humiliated by her intern-loving hubby, Silda Wall Spitzer made clear her intentions if Eliot ever cheated.

"That would never be me. I'd be gone," Silda told friends, a pal told The Post.

But Silda, for the second time in a week, donned a tailored designer skirt suit and appeared to be standing by her hooker-loving hubby yesterday, even as the fairy tale has soured behind closed doors.

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