Spitzer V. Women In Prison Case

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Those factors only added to the surprise when he had to resign from the Governor’s office because he had been a suspect in a federal investigation into prostitution. It turned out that Spitzer hadn’t just committed a one-time indiscretion; he was downright a well-established client. Spitzer reportedly spent an estimated $80,000 with a high-end escort agency, Emperor’s Club VIP, in Washington, D.C. He had even developed such a negative reputation with the agency that the appointment bookers warned that Spitzer would ask them “to do things that...you might not think were safe...very basic things.” In other words, it sounds like he pressured the women to not use condoms.
Spitzer violated the Mann Act by arranging to have a prostitute cross state lines, but he wasn’t charged with any crimes. Yet, the
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Her interaction with the criminal justice system was quite different and the appearance of selective punishment wasn’t lost on Davis. “I spent five months at Riker’s Island from which I returned penniless, homeless, and forced to take sex offender classes for five months with pedophiles and perverts while he returned to his wife in his Fifth Avenue high rise without ever being fingerprinted, mug shot, remanded or charged with a crime under the very law he signed,” said Davis.
By now American voters should have learned the lesson of caveat emptor, or buyer beware, when choosing candidates who present themselves as a “family values” conservative. Those same politicians gripe about the “nanny state” of government while they impose religious doctrine upon the entire population with “tough on crime” penalties for various consensual activities, such as pornography and prostitution. Consequently, there is nothing slimier than witnessing one of these RINOs (Republican In Name Only) when they get caught in a sex or prostitution

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