Spitzorswallow

  • 18 May 2009 at 3:31 PM

Will It Never End?

spitz.jpgThere are many models by which one recovers from public disgrace (Milken comes to mind as an excellent example). Recovery from rank hypocrisy is (or at least should be) far more difficult. Unfortunately, Spitz is still at it:

In my last column, I wrote about how the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the most powerful financial institution in America after the national Fed, has been entirely dominated by Wall Street bankers, without any meaningful public input. In this column, I want to suggest how this governance crisis could be remedied.

Unfortunately, Spitzer has a riled and willing audience and he need only continue to intone barbed breathings about the evil of it all and his audience may well give him a pass on that whole slew of prostitutes thing. Sure, it is amusing to watch Slate capitalize on the detritus of Spitzer’s career. But that amusement will run thin quickly when Spitzer leverages it into his next slot- as you know he will.
How To Fix the New York Fed [Slate]

  • 19 Feb 2009 at 2:51 PM

At Long Last

Spitzer Humiliates Wife And State Of New York.jpgYou waited. You hoped. You prayed. You bribed. You begged. Now, it has all paid off. You can revel in the details. You can embrace the hypocrisy. You can share in the reflected glory of abject corruption. (Pending appeal).

A Manhattan judge has ordered the government to make public sealed documents about wiretaps in the Eliot Spitzer scandal.
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff ordered prosecutors Thursday to release documents detailing calls on cell phones used by a prostitution ring whose clients included the former governor. The documents were not immediately released; prosecutors will have a chance to appeal.

Judge orders release of Spitzer wiretap documents [Associated Press]