Panel Asks How Inquiry Began on Spitzer Banking.......were THEY out to get him???

[a kennedy]

By DANNY HAKIM

ALBANY — Eight months after a federal investigation into a prostitution ring brought about the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the question persists in some circles: Was the federal government out to get Mr. Spitzer?

No evidence has surfaced to support such an assertion, and the prosecutor in the case has said that politics played no role in the pursuit of Mr. Spitzer, a Democrat. But that has not put to rest suspicions, expressed on left wing blogs, that Mr. Spitzer, a zealous pursuer of Wall Street wrongdoing who some thought could one day be president, had been singled out.

Now, a congressional committee is pursuing what would be the first public examination of the events that prompted the initial inquiry into his bank transactions, which showed he was sending money to a front company for Emperor’s Club V.I.P.

The House Financial Services Committee intends to take up the matter early next year and tentatively plans to hold hearings that could include testimony from the United States Treasury’s law enforcement unit, along with Mr. Spitzer’s bank, North Fork, and HSBC, a bank used by a company connected to the prostitution service.

full article: <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/nyregion/26spitzer.html?_r=1&hp>

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[alarimer]

1. It was his own fault.

If he hadn't been fucking around on his wife with a whore, there would have been nothing for them to get him on. Fuck Spitzer that disgusting piece of shit.

[sam sarrha]

2. now that's said.. it is a crime to investigate someone with no evidence of a crime..

[NOW tense]

3. Learn from the last eight years. Don't defend the corrupt.

[Javaman]

6. Corrupt how? he was screwing someone, how does having sex

equal corruption?

your repuke is showing.

[NOW tense]

8. It is corrupt to take an oath

to up hold the law and then break the law. Just like it is corrupt to uphold the constitution and then disregard it. Being that you don't know me. I wouldn't toss around any of your repuke crap either. Learn from the history otherwise you end up repeating it. I don't know about you but just because there is a D after someone's name doesn't mean I am going to defend them. I want to keep a Dem Majority for awhile.

[Javaman]

9. meh, got me there. I admit it. :)

peace.

[riqster]

4. Spitzer is guilty, yes. And if he was busted by corrupt means,

...then that corruption must also be dealt with.

[defendandprotect]

5. Correct ---

[Javaman]

7. well said. nt