Back OpEd News | |||||||
Original Content at https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/It-Wasn-t-Prostitution-Rin-in-General_News-080311-353.html (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher). |
March 11, 2008
It Wasn't Prostitution Ring That Led to Spitzer, But Vice-Versa
By Russ Wellen
According to Brian Ross's page at ABC News, suspicious financial activity on the part of New York's governor "was initially reported by a bank to the IRS which. . . brought in the FBI's Public Corruption Squad. 'We had no interest at all in the prostitution ring until the thing with Spitzer led us to learn about it,' said one Justice Department official."
::::::::
According to Brian Ross's page at ABC News, suspicious financial activity on the part of New York's governor "was initially reported by a bank to the IRS which. . . brought in the FBI's Public Corruption Squad. 'We had no interest at all in the prostitution ring until the thing with Spitzer led us to learn about it,' said one Justice Department official."Russ Wellen is the nuclear deproliferation editor for OpEdNews. He's also on the staffs of Freezerbox and Scholars & Rogues.
"It's hard to tell people not to smoke when you have a cigarette dangling from your mouth."
-- Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency