March 11, 2008
PACMAN JONES WOULD HAVE ASKED FOR SINGLES:
Eliot Spitzer's bank turned him in to the IRS (ROBERT E. KESSLER, March 11, 2008, Newsday)
Gov. Eliot Spitzer ended up as the subject of an investigation into a prostitution ring because his bank branch in Manhattan turned him in to the Internal Revenue Service as someone who might be engaged in suspicious currency transactions, according to sources familiar with the investigation.After the governor transferred $10,000 by breaking it into smaller amounts, he then called the bank asking that his name be removed from the transactions, the sources said.
Agents of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division initially started a probe fearing that the governor was the victim of some sort of blackmail scheme or because he was being victimized by an impostor, the sources said.
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SPITZER HAS USED HOOKERS FOR 6 YEARS: SOURCES (JEANE MACINTOSH and CHUCK BENNETT, March 11, 2008, NY Post)
Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been soliciting high-priced hookers for at least six years and possibly for more than a decade, sources tell The Post.Posted by Orrin Judd at March 11, 2008 3:00 PM
"the governor transferred $10,000 by breaking it into smaller amounts, he then called the bank asking that his name be removed from the transactions"
It's hard to imagine Spitzer was stupid enough to have done this. As a former AG and ADA he had to know these type of transactions would raise red flags. Either incredible arrogance on his part or he wanted to get caught.
Posted by: mike m at March 11, 2008 5:24 PMToo bad Hank Greenberg didn't know about this 3 years ago - Spitzer never would have made Governor.
Posted by: ratbert at March 11, 2008 6:52 PMToo bad Dick Grasso and Ken Langone didn't know - they could have forced Spitzer to make them cabinet officers in NY.
Posted by: jim hamlen at March 12, 2008 7:42 AM