their own misdeeds? Seems to me that celebrating the fall of somebody who fought crime, is something that only criminals would do. Don’t get me wrong, I think its good that he got caught, but I’m not popping wine bottles, and wearing party hats. This is how prisoners behave when dirty cops are shown on television… Maybe somebody should start investigating wallstreet again.
should we be… sorry.
I think the problem is that Spitzer took a lot of people down just for making money – Grasso was no criminal. He also nailed people to the wall for technicalities. And he used New York State’s unique investigative powers to go on fishing expeditions to find such technicalities.
And then he gets caught in a dragnet as a result of routine SARs that he knows banks are required to file with the IRS.
If anything he should be ridiculed for such stupidity – if he’d just withdrawn the cash from his own account, instead of wiring large sums among various accounts, there would never have been an investgation (yes, that’s how it works).
Comment by Kent M — June 12, 2009 @ 2:17 pm
Yes.
The same way we are cheering the fall of Nyfong
Comment by PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF AMERICA — June 13, 2009 @ 5:45 am
Spitzer’s wall street endeavors accomplished nothing, one criminal charge of 100’s, what are you talking about. Spitzer’s the criminal, now and then! He destroyed reputations and now it’s his turn, that’s what the cheering is about!
Comment by theinternetassassin — June 13, 2009 @ 9:06 pm
Personally the only problem I see is that he was a hypocrit about it. I think that prostitution outta be legal. There should be state regulations to make sure that they don’t have STDs but it should be legal buisiness.
Why shouldn’t a women be able to offer sex to someone in exchange for money instead of dinner and a movie?
Comment by jaxom6969420 — June 17, 2009 @ 3:15 am
think it is really awful that in order to be a public figure in modern America that they cannot have a private life. That is not to imply that I in any way approve of Spitzers hypocrisy..but what is lost when we lose our privacy? Or if we don’ value it anymore?
Comment by LYN JOAN TJoanie — June 18, 2009 @ 10:09 am