The week of all Spitzer, all the time
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- November
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This has been quite a week for the Spitzer family. Silda Wall Spitzer, the wife of New York’s infamous ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer, made the news yesterday for joining a New York hedge fund. Eliot Spitzer’s father, Bernard Spitzer, testified in court as a defendant in a discrimination lawsuit brought by African Americans who were fired from their jobs in a building owned by the real estate mogul.
A Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, woman pleaded guilty today for her involvement in a high-class prostitution ring that was the downfall for Eliot Spitzer. She was a booker for Emperors Club VIP. Spitzer resigned as governor in March after it came to light that he was an active customer of Emperors Club VIP. The Dutchess County woman was the fourth and final employee charged in connection with the scandal. Prosecutors recently announced they were dropping all charges against Eliot Spitzer.
The New York Times reported this afternoon that a congressional committee will investigate the circumstances surrounding Eliot Spitzer’s bank transactions being flagged, which led to revelations that he was a client of Emperors Club VIP. The panel will probe whether political retribution was involved. Before being elected governor in 2006, Spitzer was an aggressive state attorney general who became known as the Sheriff of Wall Street.
(Photo: Reuters)
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
