If I'm arrested for a crime, can I just quit my job to avoid the charges?

[elehhhhna]

I find it hard to get my head around the Spitzer "deal" : quit and we won't prosecute. Is this option available to all Americans?

[bryant69]

1. Nope - just Governors.

If you plan on committing a crime, maybe you should run for Governor?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[endarkenment]

2. Hardly anyone is ever prosecuted for using a prostitute.

Spitzer is the subject of a criminal investigation because he is a governor. Nice way to get this completely backwards though.

[Serial Mom]

6. This isn't backwards... the investigation did not start about a prostitution ring

It was looking into possible corruption. Spitzer isn't a holy roller - while he went after big wigs of corporations instead of just letting the SEC handle some of the cases, he had to get his glory by going after them in the bloaviating fashion all for his own political future.

Yes he did get some execs and Wall Street guys, but in at least 2 cases he went after investment companies execs and ruined those companies therefore ruining thousands of 401Ks for thousands of people and in one case alone, over 750 people lost their job! All for the sake of catching a CEO for trading 1 or 2 cents above the closing price after hours (which is now legal).

[endarkenment]

14. And what they found was he was spending money on whores

for which there is rarely if ever a prosecution at the federal level. He has not been charged with anything else because that is all that there was. Once again: you have got this completely backwards, the reason Spitzer got in trouble is because he was the governor.

[Serial Mom]

15. Maybe so, but maybe it was the banks who turned him in for investigation

and that may be politically motivated, but he did violate FEDERAL LAW. I don't care if there is rarely prosecutions, but the ONLY point I was trying to make is that he got caught! And the super-rich don't like getting caught and generally weasel their way out of it, but why not women!?

[Serial Mom]

3. Yes, he's suffered enough (as I heard this morning)

So when you are rich and get caught doing something illegal, losing your job is "suffering enough" - sort of like Scooter :sarcasm:

unless you are Martha Stewart e.g. a WOMAN!

Prostitutes go to jail when caught, but how many "johns" even get procsecuted!

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. Only when ...

The crime was discovered during an investigation to find leverage to get you out of the position of power you currently hold. It is becoming more and more clear that such was the case with Spitzer.

[EFerrari]

5. Since this was probably a political prosecution, the political penalty

is what they were looking for.

This isn't really about prostitution or the Mann Act.

:shrug:

[Benhurst]

7. Our rulers aren't subject to the same laws as mere mortals.

Exposure, alone, is punishment enough for the Great Ones.

[TheWatcher]

8. No, but if you Invade a sovereign country, kill a million of their citizens

Destroy the Economy, Education, and Labor Markets, Torture Children, Steal Elections, and destroy all Civil Liberties and the Constitution, you can have a nice slice of land in Paraguay waiting for you when you're done.

Membership does have it's privileges I guess.

[stray cat]

9. most people don't even lose their job for frequenting a prosititute

[spanone]

10. we just had a local sheriff busted for illegal oxycontin buys

he negotiated his way out of office and out of jail. no criminal charges...yes, the deck is stacked.

[stillcool]

11. I don't know anyone...

who went to jail for paying for sex. I wonder what the average sentence is?

[russian33]

12. when was Spitzer arrested?

[yellowcanine]

13. Spitzer was not arrested and the prosecutor claimed there is no deal. So the question is moot.