Reliable sources whisper to me that Spitzer also used the pseudonym Sir Richard Humpalot. (But I also hear leprechauns, so that could just be "crazy talk").

I wonder if this will derail his proposal to raise money for the state by taxing pot. NY already has state sactioned gambling, it has scores of polohacks like Slippery Shelly Silver and all sorts of other nepharious vices. Tax everyone based on their most enjoyable vices, and NY state will never need to run another deficit ever again. Shrewd planning Mr. Guvnor. Crazy like a fox, he is.

Eliot Spitzer was certainly in bed with hedge funds, and the powerful lawfirms which represent them. Long ago it was reported how Spitzer would protect organized crime, such as in the bankruptcy rings which caused and ensared Enron, Worldcom, and eToys. Eliot Snoozer was blind to all crime by his brethren, like Tony Soprano Spitzer said "Family is the most important thing, nothing else matters". Like Tony Soprano, Spitzer was a lecherous bigot and abuser of women, and can stand proud in public knowing that everyone knows the same. The Eliot Spitzer legacy is one of public corruption, prosecuting the irrelevant while protecting his brothers. Yo Eliot, your wife was not a dog. What, are you jealous of African American basketball players? Are you jealous that eminem was getting fresher stuff than you? Do you believe the media and the Feds will overlook the Long Trail of prosecutorial corruption where you protected the neo-mafia?

One of the Sopranos nicknamed Spitzer. But seriously, does anyone really believe that a former Federal prosecutor, the most senior prosecutor of New York State, and the current governor of New York just happened to surf the internet and decide to try a high priced hooker. The only reasonable explanation is that Eliot Spitzer had long term ties with organized crime, and he felt safe. According to the press reports, Spitzer was being investigated for the money transfers and they thought he was being paid bribes. All they found, so far that we know, was the money trail for the payments to the prostitutes. Spitzer has a legacy of arbitrary prosecutions of businesses that were not connected to the Neo-Mafia, yet certain law firms and their hedge fund and major corporate clients always got a free pass. Spitzer, Corruption, Organized Crime, it is just the tip of the iceberg.