GOP slimeball initiated Spitzer hit job, er, 'investigation' [View All]

According to various media accounts -- including the New York Times -- the investigation that led to the Spitzer scandal, and his eventual resignation, was triggered by a suspicious financial transaction report from North Fork Bank. A report in the Friday night news dump at the Miami Herald the case of the former New York governor seems more likely to have been a political hit job:

Almost four months before Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in a sex scandal, a lawyer for Republican political operative Roger Stone sent a letter to the FBI alleging that Spitzer ''used the services of high-priced call girls'' while in Florida.

The letter, dated Nov. 19, said Miami Beach resident Stone learned the information from ''a social contact in an adult-themed club.'' It offered one potentially identifying detail: the man in question hadn't taken off his calf-length black socks ``during the sex act.''

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