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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:12 PM
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Rachael Larimore
I think you have a point, Melinda, and had Eliot Spitzer merely had a boring old affair, we probably wouldn't be making such a fuss. But there are a couple of factors that make this case different. One is the hypocrisy of it all. Spitzer made his name by cracking down on corruption and white-collar crime, and, as Emily pointed out yesterday, high-end prostitution rings.
The other factor that sets this apart is the same thing that attracted our attention to so many of the rich-guy criminals who Spitzer busted as A.G.: the dollar signs. Spitzer's alleged that $4,300 night with a prostitute is as outlandish to most of us as Dennis Kozlowski's $6,000 shower curtain.
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