tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11931513.post4653738904745016926..comments2024-03-25T16:27:37.609-04:00Comments on Wise Law Blog: On Eliot Spitzer, Briefly@wiselawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16852672948478340298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11931513.post-73453678602823845412008-03-14T20:17:00.000-04:002008-03-14T20:17:00.000-04:00Let's see. Here you have a New York governor who c...Let's see. Here you have a New York governor who crusaded for and signed into law "the toughest and most comprehensive anti-sex-trade law in the nation", which specifically raised the prison terms applicable to the workaday "johns" who patronize prostitutes. And you also have the most celebrated white-collar prosecutor of his era, charged with engaging in violations of the same money-laundering laws that he himself invoked in obtaining convictions. As NYC criminal defense attorney/blogger Scott Greenfield points out, "the government regularly prosecutes 'little people' for money laundering violations. It happens all the time":<BR/><BR/>http://blog.simplejustice.us/2008/03/13/spitzer-aftermath-what-to-expect.aspx<BR/><BR/>And the best you can think of is to call the revulsion that drove Spitzer from office a "political lynching by the Monica brigade"? I hope it does not pass for progressive thinking in your country to defend high officials who consider themselves above the laws with which they trample others; if anything such an attitude sounds to me more like the sort of royalist streak that I thought Canada had left behind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com