New York Governor Eliot Spitzer

Spitzer & The Bush Bankers
By Ted Lang
3-15-8

The DC Madam scandal has been erased from the American public's radar screen by the Zionist-controlled "American" mass media. The Bush White House pedophile scandal is non-existent thanks to the Zionist MSM. And if one needs proof of the Zionist domination of our mass mainstream Establishment media, please go here to get up to speed.

The New York Times, gatekeeper for all broadcast and cable TV news, has yet to learn of the Downing Street Memo. And Cheney's direct involvement in orchestrating defense system "stand-downs" to facilitate the 9/11 massacre of Americans, and his criminally motivated exposure of Valerie Plame, are of absolutely no concern to the MSM. So why all the concentrated media focus on New York Governor Elliot Spitzer's long-term rolls in the hay with paid sex partners?

Even a novice news junkie that has only recently begun to understand the fraud and propaganda agenda of the "American" MSM can immediately notice something weird relative to the "exposure" of Governor Spitzer's addiction to high-priced prostitutes. Any normal red-blooded American male just loves women who can reduce down sexual pleasure to the simple exchange requiring only money. It is indeed the "oldest profession."

Consider all the previously cited potential block-busting front page headlines "missed" by "America's" MSM. Why the fuss over this? Even the exposure and resignation of former Governor Jim McGreevey of New Jersey attracted less mass media frenzy than this "news" event. It is clear that this exposé of the "evil" of Eliot Spitzer is a deliberate media-hyped fraud to remove from power that which is a serious threat to The Establishment's power elite.

Let US recall the directives for all disciples of Zionism as articulated in "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion." Here is the applicable dictate from "the Protocols" as cited in Henry Ford's The International Jew, Chapter 8: "As always election campaigns are staged as entertainment, a diversion for the people; they are permitted to think and act as if they are really making their own government, but it is always the Jews that win. And if after having elected their man or group, obedience is not rendered to the Jewish control, then you speedily hear of 'scandals' and 'investigations' and 'impeachments' for the removal of the disobedient." Is this relevant to the Spitzer "scandal?"

Here's more from the agenda of "The Protocols" as illuminated by Ford: "Usually a man with a 'past' proves the most obedient instrument, but even a good man can often be tangled up in campaign practices that compromise him. It has been commonly known that Jewish manipulation of American election campaigns have been skillfully handled, that no matter which candidate was elected, there was a ready made sufficient amount of evidence to discredit him in case his Jewish masters needed to discredit him. To arrange this is part of the thoroughness of Jewish control. And, of course, the American people have been sufficiently trained to roar against the public official immediately [when] the first Jewish hound emits its warning bay."

Sound familiar? The Zionist objective is to recruit for American government those politicians with skeletons in their closets so that they can be blackmailed. The greatest example is that pompous, arrogant and egotistical ass Woodrow Wilson, who sold US out for the Zionist Rothschild Marxist income tax and the Warburg Federal Reserve System now bankrupting America. But these affronts to true individual freedom are of absolutely no concern whatsoever to our Israel and communist New World Order-supporting MSM. And here's why.

Virtually every power-postured, corrupt and immoral politician in America uses the services of beautiful high-priced prostitutes. It's part of the American political power rewards system. But the phony straw men Frankenstein monsters of American government have conjured up phony affronts to decency and morality. These offer that the "mere possession of" firearms, "controlled substances," pornographic materials, and soon, documents and writings critical of American government, constitute crimes that require punishment. The fact is, these are NOT crimes. Crimes are acts of depravity committed by one human against another thereby depriving the victim of the enjoyment of life, liberty and property. And who commits more crimes against American citizens than American government?

Crimes that are not resultant in "damaged victims," victims that have been deprived or forcibly reduced in economic value, or who have sustained physical injury, pain or death, are not crimes. Government creates crimes out of thin air. Government establishes "crimes" that in reality are no crimes at all. They are only crimes because government says they are crimes. When one considers the "liberal" call for a separation of church and state, combined with the unequal and opposite marriage of synagogue and state, "laws" are created for political expediency, and not for either equity or justice.

Prostitution is not a crime. If it really was, then the whole damn Congress should be arrested and locked up! Nor is the "mere possession" of anything, a crime. As long as no one is hurt or injured in any way by someone's action, then NO CRIME HAS BEEN COMMITTED! The corrupt, immoral state and its corrupt, immoral, politicians are the only ones who discriminate against law-abiding, moral citizens, to elevate their own depravity and real crimes to their own standard of acceptability.

Yes, technically, Spitzer committed a crime; but only in the eyes of corrupt, immoral government. And yes, he basically has no defense because he vigorously prosecuted others for committing precisely the same type of "offenses" that he himself committed. At worst, he's a hypocrite. But drug possession, drug usage, alcohol possession, alcohol usage and its over-indulgence, as well as paid-for sex, are none of the government's damned business! Humans make mistakes, but a whole hell of a lot less mistakes than f*****g government! Please identify for me the worst criminal you can call to memory that mass murdered more than one million human beings!

New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer was brought down rapidly, disgracefully, and very, very publicly by the mass Zionist media. Where was this media for Downing, the White House pedophiles, Plame, Edmonds and the DC Madam? They were nowhere to be found! So as far as this news junkie is concerned, they can all drop dead and go straight to hell!

Spitzer was targeted by The Establishment. Sure Spitzer is Jewish, and I've re-registered as a Republican to support Congressman Ron Paul and my Jewish friend Dr. Murray Sabrin, who is running for the US Senate for New Jersey.. But Spitzer's track record is simply marvelous! He was an enemy of War Street. He was an enemy of the international central bankers, the House of Rothschild/Rockefeller NWO promoters. He may possibly have been contemplating investigating the 9/11 fraud perpetrated by the Cheney-Bush crime machine, but this claim is so far unsubstantiated. But, he was threatening the international bankers and their criminal Cheney-Bush regime.
In an opinion piece Spitzer wrote and published in the Washington Post on Valentine's Day, February 14th, the day after his admitted tryst in DC, Spitzer wrote: "Even though predatory lending was becoming a national problem, the Bush administration looked the other way and did nothing to protect American homeowners. In fact, the government chose instead to align itself with the banks that were victimizing consumers."
Spitzer's piece entitled, "Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers," highlighted the subprime lending bust which was planned and brought about by the banking "industry." Spitzer observed: "Predatory lending was widely understood to present a looming national crisis. This threat was so clear that as New York attorney general, I joined with colleagues in the other 49 states in attempting to fill the void left by the federal government. Individually, and together, state attorneys general of both parties brought litigation or entered into settlements with many subprime lenders that were engaged in predatory lending practices. Several state legislatures, including New York's, enacted laws aimed at curbing such practices."

Spitzer has been whoring for ten years. Nothing new here. As previously stated, ALL politicians in America are corrupt and all do this. Spitzer never saw it coming. And stupid brainwashed America is of course outraged as the Protocols knew they would be. Traitor Nancy Pelosi could have come to his aid and told the criminal GOP to back off or she would go after the smirking disgrace in the White House; but she too is only loyal to Israel and its New World Order.

And as we consider Zionists and their origins from the "Jewish" international House of Rothschild, it was this Zionist banker who plotted to infiltrate the highest levels of Freemasonry in order to gain access to America's political elite. Most US Presidents, including George Washington, were Masons. It was Rothschild who conceived of a Jewish State, and who supported Theodor Herzl's Zionist activism which created "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion." And the Protocols make it clear how utterly disgusting and loathsome the goyim (herd) of Christianity and non-Jews are. It mimics the hatred for Christ and His followers found in the "Jewish" Talmud. And it was this hatred for all non-Jewish humanity that motivated Hitler. It is what turned him into a racist, a racist reacting to, and opposing, the hatred and racism of "Jews."

But the bringing down of Spitzer, himself a Jew, now provides readily discernible evidence that not all Jews are Zionists, and that those Jews who oppose their Zionist masters will be destroyed. Think of traitor Nancy Pelosi's terror after being booed by the Israel lobby.

It should be clear, that virtually all bankers are tied, in some way, to the Rothschild system. And Spitzer connected them and Bush. And he connected them to the current economic mess in America that is directly their creation. Now think of the loudmouth on talk radio that impresses everyone with his high level of intelligence in opining: "I don't believe in conspiracy theories."


© THEODORE E. LANG 3/15/08 All rights reserved

Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.

Spitzer Was Silenced Elliot's Mess And The $200 Million Bailout By Greg Palast 3-14-8

From www.Rense.com

While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an 'escort' $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush's new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators.

Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there's a BIG difference. The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush's man Bernanke was using ours.

This week, Bernanke's Fed, for the first time in its history, loaned a selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee these banks' mortgage-backed junk bonds. The deluge of public loot was an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought two million families to the brink of foreclosure.

Up until Wednesday, there was one single, lonely politician who stood in the way of this creepy little assignation at the bankers' bordello: Eliot Spitzer.

Who are they kidding? Spitzer's lynching and the bankers' enriching are intimately tied.

HOW? FOLLOW THE MONEY.

The press has swallowed Wall Street's line that millions of US families are about to lose their homes because they bought homes they couldn't afford or took loans too big for their wallets. Ba-LON-ey. That's blaming the victim.

Here's what happened. Since the Bush regime came to power, a new species of loan became the norm, the 'sub-prime' mortgage and it's variants including loans with teeny 'introductory' interest rates. From out of nowhere, a company called 'Countrywide' became America's top mortgage lender, accounting for one in five home loans, a large chuck of these 'sub-prime's.

Here's how it worked: The Grinning Family, with US average household income, gets a $200,000 mortgage at 4% for two years. Their $955 a month payment is 25% of their income. No problem. Their banker promises them a new mortgage, again at the cheap rate, in two years. But in two years, the promise ain't worth a can of spam and the Grinnings are told to scram - because their house is now worth less than the mortgage. Now, the mortgage hits 9% or $1,609 plus fees to recover the 'discount' they had for two years. Suddenly, payments equal 42% to 50% of pre-tax income. Grinnings move into their Toyota.

Now, what kind of American is 'sub-prime'. Guess. No peeking. Here's a hint: 73% of HIGH INCOME Black and Hispanic borrowers were given sub-prime loans versus 17% of similar-income Whites. Dark-skinned borrowers aren't 'stupid', they had no choice. They were 'steered' as it's called in the mortgage sharking business.

"Steering," sub-prime loans with usurious kickers, fake inducements to over-borrow, called 'fraudulent conveyance' or 'predatory lending' under US law, were almost completely forbidden in the olden days (Clinton Administration and earlier) by federal regulators and state laws as nothing more than fancy loan-sharking.

But when the Bush regime took over, Countrywide and its banking brethren were told to party hardy "it was OK now to steer'm, fake'm, charge'm and take'm."

BUT THERE WAS THIS ANNOYING PARTY-POOPER.

The Attorney General of New York, Eliot Spitzer, who sued these guys to a fare-thee-well. Or tried to.

Instead of regulating the banks that had run amok, Bush's regulators went on the warpath against Spitzer and states attempting to stop predatory practices. Making an unprecedented use of the legal power of 'federal pre-emption', Bush-bots ordered the states to NOT enforce their consumer protection laws.

Indeed, the feds actually filed a lawsuit to block Spitzer's investigation of ugly racial mortgage steering. Bush's banking buddies were especially steamed that Spitzer hammered bank practices across the nation using New York State laws.

Spitzer not only took on Countrywide, he took on their predatory enablers in the investment banking community. Behind Countrywide was the Mother Shark, its funder and now owner, Bank of America. Others joined the sharkfest: Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup's Citibank made mortgage usury their major profit centers. They did this through a bit of financial legerdemain called 'securitization.'

What that means is that they took a bunch of junk mortgages, like the Grinnings, loans about to go down the toilet and re-packaged them into 'tranches' of bonds which were stamped 'AAA' - top grade - by bond rating agencies. These gold-painted turds were sold as sparkling safe investments to US school district pension funds and town governments in Finland (really).

When the housing bubble burst and the paint flaked off, investors were left with the poop and the bankers were left with bonuses. Countrywide's top man, Angelo Mozilo, will 'earn' a $77 million buy-out bonus this year on top of the $656 million - over half a billion dollars he pulled in from 1998 through 2007.

BUT THERE WERE RUMBLINGS THAT THE PARTY WOULD SOON BE OVER.

Angry regulators, burned investors and the weight of millions of homes about to be boarded up were causing the sharks to sink. Countrywide's stock was down 50%, and Citigroup was off 38%, not pleasing to the Gulf sheiks who now control its biggest share blocks.

Then, on Wednesday of this week, the unthinkable happened. Carlyle Capital went bankrupt. Who? That's Carlyle as in Carlyle Group. James Baker, Senior Counsel. Notable partners, former and past: George Bush, the Bin Laden family and more dictators, potentates, pirates and presidents than you can count.

The Fed had to act. Bernanke opened the vault and dumped $200 billion on the poor little suffering bankers. They got the 'public treasure' and got to keep the Grinning's house. There was no 'quid' of a foreclosure moratorium for the 'pro quo' of public bail-out. Not one family was 'saved,' but not one banker was left behind.

Every mortgage sharking operation shot up in value. Mozilo's Countrywide stock rose 17% in one day. The Citi sheiks saw their company's stock rise $10 billion in an afternoon.

And that very same day the bail-out was decided - what a coinkydink! - the man called "The Sheriff of Wall Street" was cuffed.

SPITZER WAS SILENCED.

Do I believe the banks called Justice and said "Take him down today!" Naw, that's not how the system works. But the big players knew that unless Spitzer was taken out, he would create enough ruckus to spoil the party. Headlines in the financial press, one was 'Wall Street Declares War on Spitzer' - made clear to Bush's enforcers at Justice who their number one target should be. And it wasn't Bin Laden.

It was the night of February 13 when Spitzer made the bone-headed choice to order take-out in his Washington Hotel room. He had just finished signing these words for the Washington Post about predatory loans:

'Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which he federal government was turning a blind eye.'

Bush, said Spitzer right in the headline: 'was the 'Predator Lenders' Partner in Crime.' The President, said Spitzer, was a fugitive from justice. And Spitzer was in Washington to launch a campaign to take on the Bush regime and the biggest financial powers on the planet.

Spitzer wrote: When history tells the story of the subprime lending crisis and recounts its devastating effects on the lives of so many innocent homeowners the Bush administration will not be judged favorably."

FALLEN ON HIS OWN GUN

But now, the Administration can rest assured that this love story - of Bush and his bankers - will not be told by history at all ''now that the Sheriff of Wall Street has fallen on his own gun.''

A note on 'Prosecutorial Indiscretion.'

Back in the day when I was an investigator of racketeers for government, the federal prosecutor I was assisting was deciding whether to launch a case based on his negotiations for airtime with 60 Minutes. I'm not allowed to tell you the prosecutor's name, but I want to mention he was recently seen shouting: "Florida is Rudi country! Florida is Rudi country!"

Not all crimes lead to federal bust or even public exposure. It's up to something called 'prosecutorial discretion.'

Funny thing, this "discretion." For example, Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him diapers (ewww!), yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him.

Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer - rarely done in these cases - was made at the 'discretion' of Bush's Justice Department.

Or maybe we should say, 'indiscretion.'

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Greg Palast, former investigator of financial fraud, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

Spitzer Destroyed Over Of
Threat To Bush Cartel?
By Patrick Grimm
3-14-8

From www.Rense.com

Jeff -

Here is more and very credible info on why the plug was pulled on Spitzer. Read his oped piece from the Feb. 14, Post and you can see that he was pointing the finger at the Bush crime syndicate. See the last paragraph. So it seems that Spitzer's true crime was stupidity -- how could he think that he would visit high-priced call girls and also attack the Bushinistas at the same time without being counterattacked? -- Jim


Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime


How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers


(The following oped by Eliot Spitzer was published barely a month prior to the unfolding scandal and his demise as Governor of the State of New York. Does the scandal bear any relationship to Spitzer's intent to reveal the criminal nature of the subprime mortgage scam and the role of the Bush adminstration. Was the scandal intended to silence Eliot Spitzer?)

By New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
The Washington Post
Feb. 14, 2008

Several years ago, state attorneys general and others involved in consumer protection began to notice a marked increase in a range of predatory lending practices by mortgage lenders. Some were misrepresenting the terms of loans, making loans without regard to consumers' ability to repay, making loans with deceptive "teaser" rates that later ballooned astronomically, packing loans with undisclosed charges and fees, or even paying illegal kickbacks. These and other practices, we noticed, were having a devastating effect on home buyers. In addition, the widespread nature of these practices, if left unchecked, threatened our financial markets.

Even though predatory lending was becoming a national problem, the Bush administration looked the other way and did nothing to protect American homeowners. In fact, the government chose instead to align itself with the banks that were victimizing consumers.


Predatory lending was widely understood to present a looming national crisis. This threat was so clear that as New York attorney general, I joined with colleagues in the other 49 states in attempting to fill the void left by the federal government. Individually, and together, state attorneys general of both parties brought litigation or entered into settlements with many subprime lenders that were engaged in predatory lending practices. Several state legislatures, including New York's, enacted laws aimed at curbing such practices.


What did the Bush administration do in response? Did it reverse course and decide to take action to halt this burgeoning scourge? As Americans are now painfully aware, with hundreds of thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure and our markets reeling, the answer is a resounding no.

Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.

Let me explain: The administration accomplished this feat through an obscure federal agency called the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC has been in existence since the Civil War. Its mission is to ensure the fiscal soundness of national banks. For 140 years, the OCC examined the books of national banks to make sure they were balanced, an important but uncontroversial function. But a few years ago, for the first time in its history, the OCC was used as a tool against consumers.

In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks. The federal government's actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.


But the unanimous opposition of the 50 states did not deter, or even slow, the Bush administration in its goal of protecting the banks. In fact, when my office opened an investigation of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation.


Throughout our battles with the OCC and the banks, the mantra of the banks and their defenders was that efforts to curb predatory lending would deny access to credit to the very consumers the states were trying to protect. But the curbs we sought on predatory and unfair lending would have in no way jeopardized access to the legitimate credit market for appropriately priced loans. Instead, they would have stopped the scourge of predatory lending practices that have resulted in countless thousands of consumers losing their homes and put our economy in a precarious position.


When history tells the story of the subprime lending crisis and recounts its devastating effects on the lives of so many innocent homeowners, the Bush administration will not be judged favorably. The tale is still unfolding, but when the dust settles, it will be judged as a willing accomplice to the lenders who went to any lengths in their quest for profits. So willing, in fact, that it used the power of the federal government in an unprecedented assault on state legislatures, as well as on state attorneys general and anyone else on the side of consumers. [emphasis added]

The writer is governor of New York.

Special Reports
Spitzer taken down by Mossad?

By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3065.shtml

Mar 14, 2008, 00:36

Eliot Spitzer took on Wall Street like no other attorney general before him. As the Washington Post reported in 2004, “His targets in the past have included everyone from big Wall Street investment banks and the $7.5 trillion mutual fund industry to polluting power plants and supermarket chains that underpaid delivery workers.”

Additionally, Wayne Madsen reports [subscription required] that “Defense sources have confirmed our March 11, 2008, report that Emperors Club VIP, the prostitution firm that entangled New York’s outgoing Governor Eliot Spitzer in a call girl ring, is viewed by US intelligence as a front for Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad.

“The sources claim that Spitzer was ‘outed’ for his aggressiveness in attacking money launderers connected to Russian-Israeli organized crime syndicates and other Wall Street malfeasance.”

In an earlier report, Madsen mentioned that “There is also speculation that although Spitzer was implicated in the large international investigation of the Emperor’s VIP Club’s prostitution business, GOP dirty tricks operative Roger Stone figures in the case as a collateral agent provocateur. Stone has a history of badgering Eliot Spitzer and his elderly father, New York real estate magnate Bernard Spitzer.”

Madsen went on to say, “There is also intense speculation about the identities of the other clients of the Emperor’s VIP Club call girls service. A February 5, 2006, article by Ben Smith in The New York Observer describes a close relationship between Eliot Spitzer and former Bill Clinton aide Dick Morris. Spitzer told the newspaper that Dick Morris’ dad was his dad’s lawyer. In 2006, the Democratic National Convention was shocked to learn that Morris, then Clinton’s top political consultant, paid $200 an hour to a Virginia prostitute named Sherry Rowlands. The revelations about Morris came mere hours before Clinton was to deliver his acceptance speech at the convention.

“Rowlands revealed that Morris once let her listen in on a phone conversation with Clinton. She said that Hillary Clinton was upset at the phone call, that she 'was not well,' and the president asked Morris not to use the White House private residence phone number in the future.

“Morris’ relationship with Rowlands reportedly involved toe sucking trysts on the part of Morris. The criminal complaint filed against the Emperor’s Club referred to aberrant sexual practices, considered 'unsafe,' by Spitzer and a prostitute identified as Kristen.”

Who is Kristen?

The New York Times reports in Woman at the Center of Governor’s Downfall, “She left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York . . .

“Kristen, the prostitute described in a federal affidavit as having had a rendezvous with Mr. Spitzer on Feb. 13 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor apartment in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. On Monday, she made a brief appearance in federal court, where a lawyer was appointed to represent her. She is expected to be a witness in the case against four people charged with operating a prostitution ring called the Emperor’s Club V.I.P.

“In a series of telephone interviews on Tuesday night, she said she had slept very little over the past week, with all the stress of the case.

“'I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,' the woman said as she told the tiniest tidbits of her story.

“Born Ashley Youmans but now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupré, she spoke softly and with good humor as she added with significant understatement: ‘This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.’”

“She has not been charged. The lawyer appointed to represent her, Don D. Buchwald, told a magistrate judge in court on Monday that she had been subpoenaed to testify in a grand jury investigation. Asked to swear that she had accurately filled out and signed a financial affidavit, she responded affirmatively.

“A person with knowledge of the Emperor’s Club operation confirmed that the woman interviewed by The New York Times was the woman identified as Kristen in the affidavit. Mr. Buchwald confirmed various details of Ms. Dupré’s background but would not discuss the contents of the affidavit.

“Ms. Dupré said by telephone Tuesday night that she was worried about how she would pay her rent since the man she was living with ‘walked out on me’ after she discovered he had fathered two children. She said she was considering working at a friend’s restaurant or, once her apartment lease expires, moving back with her family in New Jersey ‘to relax.’

She did not say when she had started working for the Emperor’s Club, or how often she had liaisons arranged through the ring. Asked when she met Governor Spitzer and how many times they had seen each other, Ms. Dupré said she had no comment.

“As of Wednesday morning, Ms. Dupré’s MySpace page recounted her ‘odyssey to New York from New Jersey through North Carolina, Miami, D.C., Virginia and Austin, Texas;’ public records show that she lived in Monmouth County, N.J., in 2001, and in North Carolina in 2003. She owns a company, created in 2005, called Pasche New York, which her lawyer said was an entertainment business designed to further her singing career.

“Music is her first love, and on the MySpace page, Ms. Dupré mentions Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, Christina Aguilera and Lauryn Hill among a long list of influences, including her brother, Kyle. (She also lists Whitney Houston, Madonna, Mary J. Blige and Amy Winehouse as her top MySpace friends.) In the interview, she said she saw the Rolling Stones perform at Radio City Music Hall on their last tour after a friend gave her two tickets. ‘They were amazing,’ she said.

“On MySpace, her page says: ‘I am all about my music and my music is all about me. It flows from what I’ve been through, what I’ve seen and how I feel.’

“She left ‘a broken family’ at age 17, having been abused, according to the MySpace page, and has used drugs and ‘been broke and homeless.’

“’Learned what it was like to have everything and lose it, again and again,’ she writes. “’Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone.’

“’But I made it,’ she continues. ‘I’m still here and I love who I am. If I never went through the hard times, I would not be able to appreciate the good ones. Cliché, yes, but I know it’s true.’

“Ms. Dupré’s mother, Carolyn Capalbo, 46, said that after her daughter finished sophomore year in high school, Ms. Dupré moved to North Carolina. ‘She was a young kid with typical teenage rebellion issues, but we are extremely close now,’ Ms. Capalbo said in a telephone interview Wednesday.

“In 2006, Ms. Dupré changed her legal name, according to records in Monmouth County Superior Court, from Ashley R. Youmans to Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro, taking her stepfather’s surname since she regarded him as ‘the only father I have known.’ But in the interview, she referred to herself as Ashley Alexandra Dupré, which is how she is known on MySpace.

“On the Web page is a recording of what she describes as her latest track, ‘What We Want,’ a hip-hop-inflected rhythm-and-blues tune that asks, ‘Can you handle me, boy?’ and uses some dated slang, calling someone her ‘boo.’

“’I know what you want, you got what I want,’ she sings in the chorus. ‘I know what you need. Can you handle me?’

“Her MySpace biography says she started singing professionally after a musician she was living with heard her singing the Aretha Franklin hit ‘Respect’ in the shower and burst into the bathroom with his lead guitarist. She says she toured and recorded with them, then moved to Manhattan in 2004 and “spent the first two years getting to know the music scene, networking in clubs and connecting with the industry.

“’Now it’s all about my music, it’s all about expressing me.’

“In the affidavit, the woman the Emperor’s Club called Kristen is described as 'an American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5 feet 5 inches, and 105 pounds.' She apparently was booked at about $1,000 an hour, placing her in the middle of the seven-diamond scale by which the prostitutes were paid up to $4,300 an hour.

“Ms. Capalbo said that she was ‘shell-shocked’ when her daughter called in the middle of last week and told her she had been working as an escort and was now in trouble with the law. She said she was not sure that Ms. Dupré realized who Mr. Spitzer was when he was her client.

“’She is a very bright girl who can handle someone like the governor,’ Ms. Capalbo said. ‘But she also is a 22-year-old, not a 32-year-old or a 42-year-old, and she obviously got involved in something much larger than her.’”

Bottom line

We get the sense that what was at issue was more than a power politician’s fling with a young prostitute, but potentially explosive issues for heavy Wall Street players, the economy, the full story of 9/11, the administration, and Republican dirty tricksters. Perhaps this explains the frozen look on Spitzer’s face, seemingly scuttled in the line of duty, not just personal pleasure.