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Eliot Spitzer is Karma's Bitch

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The guy that started the payola witch hunts of the early '00s is caught in a lust nest.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[EDIT].after extorting money from CC ($10m) and Entercom ($4m)...AND after busting prostitution rings in his career...he is now in disgrace.

AND - he's a Clinton-supporting SUPER-delegate.

(single) HA!

I'm loving this.


BEST LINE: (from his short apology): "I must now spend some time to make it up to my family"

SOME time?

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My question is, how did he convince his wife to stand up there beside him, while he admitted that he had sex with another woman and paid thousands of dollars to do it. Wifey could have done a little bit of shopping with that! ;D
 
I'm not justifying his actions, he was obviously in the wrong, but unlike a certain closeted Republican Senator from Idaho, Spitzer admitted to his indiscretions.
 
Must I remind you of the HUGE effect his payola investigation had on radio and how so many people got in trouble/fired/fined etc???? Goooogle it.
Karma really is a b!tch.
 
Payola "witch hunts"? Are you serious?

In my book, you get caught taking payola, then good-bye. You get caught partaking of illegal prostitution, then good-bye.

We don't need corrupt P.D.'s anymore than we need corrupt politicians. If either breaks the law, toss them!

Businesses and political parties spend far too much time and resources defending the guilty. What a waste. Just toss them to the side and move on. In the long run, the business or the political party will be better off.
 
Spitzer subpoenaed info from the four major radio companies doing business in New York State, looking for a smoking gun, which HE NEVER FOUND. He cost radio companies millions in attorney and court fees, and delayed license renewals, facilities changes and station sales/purchases. With a "no admission of guilt" clause in the final agreements, Spitzer completed his extortion and got CBS and Entercom to pay fines totaling $6.25 million. it also fueled an FCC investigation that also led to a combined $12.5 million settlement with Clear Channel, CBS, Citadel and Entercom.

I'm not defending corruption or payola, but he was on a hunt for guilty practices in places where it didn't exist and found nothing. His hypocrisy is what brought him down and is so amusing to the rest of us.
 
With a "no admission of guilt" clause in the final agreements, Spitzer completed his extortion and got CBS and Entercom to pay fines totaling $6.25 million. it also fueled an FCC investigation that also led to a combined $12.5 million settlement with Clear Channel, CBS, Citadel and Entercom.

I'm not defending corruption or payola, but he was on a hunt for guilty practices in places where it didn't exist and found nothing. His hypocrisy is what brought him down and is so amusing to the rest of us.
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I don't consider the "no admission of guilt" clause to add much weight here. A prosecutor doesn't mind putting that clause in there, since the multimilion dollar settlement penalties say quite loudly that, "well, yes we are extremely guilty."

I agree with you that hypocrisy brought him down. But hypocrisy is much different from karma.
 
So, you try tyo make the case that because Spitzer is a sleaze that the broadcasting industry is clean? No sale!

How did Spitzer extort money from broadcasters? Wasn't the fines part of the negotiated Consent Decree between the guilty parties and the FCC? A consent decree is a voluntary agreement between two parties. Why would the guilty party agree, only for closure and to avoid criminal prosecution.

Surely one couldn't consider the attitude of Omertà or the lack of an admission of guilt as part of the negotiated Consent Decree to be proof of innocence.
 
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