No Criminal Charges For Spitzer...Come again?
After a thorough investigation, this Office has uncovered no evidence of misuse of public or campaign funds," Garcia said in a statement.
So every John caught while "arranging for women to travel from one state to another state to engage in prostitution" will get similar pass, provided they don't use public or campaign funds?
Or is this privilege and immunity reserved only for especially corrupt and hypocritical high-level and rich political "Only Ones"?
Yeah, Eliot, I'll bet you do ""appreciate the impartiality and thoroughness of the investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office."
Nice to see nothing about your character has changed through all this.
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"Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau also said he wouldn't be prosecuting the former governor. "The guy lost his job, apologized and was publicly embarrassed. I don't believe in kicking someone when they're down," he explained."
Sooooo.... all it takes is losing your job, apologizing and being publicly embarrassed???
Morgenthau should be ashamed as a District Attorney. You have someone breaking the law, and you choose to do nothing. In my readings of the law, there is not a "apologize, lose your job, become humiliated" exception to *any* crime.
If I were ever to be arrested in Manhattan for anything, I would claim malicious prosecution by YOU, b/c it's clearly arbitrary whom you decide to prosecute.
The worst part is that Spitzer is a huge statist who supports this sort of spying on and prosecuting non-elite citizens.... To watch him escape his own unconstitutional web is angering.
Well,
"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced." - Albert Einstein
This COULD have been enforced, however the class system we've built around politicians and the prized "two" party system has pretty much ruled that out.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. -Aristotle
Did anyone really believe Spitzer was going to be prosecuted? Really?
I was born at night, but not last night, therefore, I didn't think he would be prosecuted.
I watched Spitzer's campaign unfold with some guidance from the pages of a blogger and New York resident by the name of The Angry Economist. It was pretty evident--long before this fellow got his job promotion--that he was not a good choice. Though I am still surprised that he went out the way he did. I guess when someone has bad judgement, it permeates his entire character.
I recognize the point made in this post, but I like to look at the bright side: Spitzer's power to economically damage the state of New York has been severely curtailed.
SA, I'm with you. Who in their right mind actually tho't someone would prosecute a Democrat?
This type of action is troubling to me. Politicians are put in an area of public trust and in my mind should be held to a higher standard than the Ave. Joe. Instead they skate and the poor dumb sucker w/no clout pays the heavy price. So much for justice being blind.
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