Sentences with phrase «prostitution scandal»

A wrongful death shooting and a police prostitution scandal in recent years have only fueled the fire.

A wrongful death shooting and a police prostitution scandal in recent years have only fueled the fire.

Of course, after the roller coster of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, the David Paterson dysfunction and the state Senate coup, simple competence takes on a whole new meaning at the Capitol.

Spitzer has been lambasted at various times for failing to vet Paterson and saddling the state with a weak successor who unexpectedly rose to power after the former governor's prostitution scandal forced him from office.

Washington (CNN)- The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that he wants an outside investigation to determine whether any White House staff members engaged in inappropriate behavior in Colombia as part of the alleged prostitution scandal involving Secret Service agents and military personnel.

The LG post has taken on a new significance since former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal thrust his LG, David Paterson, into a post he has since admitted he neither wanted (he was hoping to take over Hillary Clinton's US Senate seat had she been elected to the White House) nor was prepared to take on.

Spitzer's ordinary sin — any number of politicians have survived prostitution scandals — ended his tenure as governor because his governorship was already going terribly.

Even better for Mr. Spitzer, however, is that a majority of Democrats, 57 percent, say he would be an excellent or good comptroller, and a full two - thirds say Mr. Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace after an infamous prostitution scandal in 2008, should be given a second chance.

Rep. Pete King, Long Island Republican and chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, has been doing the rounds of national outlets since the Secret Service prostitution scandal broke.

Public Policy Polling reports that most New Yorkers would have preferred to see former Gov. Eliot Spitzer run the state for the last two years — prostitution scandal notwithstanding — than to spend that time governed by his replacement, David Paterson.

When Eliot Spitzer resigned as New York governor amid a humiliating prostitution scandal, no one cheered louder than Wall Street.

Not only did she hook up with an agency that happened to be the very agency that would be at the heart of the biggest prostitution scandal New York has ever seen — and will now serve 21 to 27 months in jail — but she apparently was the Girl Who Had to Go to the Hospital After Taking Mushrooms in college.

The director of the Secret Service will be called before a Senate committee May 23 to provide details about the investigation into the Colombia prostitution scandal that has resulted in the dismissal of nine employees.

Sifting for clues in the wreckage of Eliot Spitzer's stunning, sordid prostitution scandal — and trying to make sense of what no doubt will always contain a large element of pure insanity — that old mob investigation offers a vivid glimpse into the suddenly ex-governor's psyche.

On her first day on the job, news broke of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.

Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal forced him from office, elevating his unvetted, untested No. 2, David Paterson, whose tenure has been rocky - at best.

In his criminal litigation practice, he has successfully represented clients involved in high - profile matters such as the U.S. Secret Service prostitution scandal, a federal fraud investigation involving environmental law violations, campaign finance irregularities in the 2010 District of Columbia elections, a CEO involved in a federal public corruption investigation in Michigan, and a company accused of mortgage and credit card fraud.

David Vitter, a United States senator in her home state of Louisiana, was staggering toward a re-election year, laid low by a prostitution scandal.

But she added that Spitzer will have «explaining» to do for women voters five years after he resigned in the midst of a prostitution scandal.

Only the governor resigning in a prostitution scandal would be stranger than Reshma Saujani winning her primary challenge to Rep. Carolyn Maloney, according to Evan Stavisky.

They clashed on several issues when he was governor, and she was one of the first Democratic elected officials to call on him to resign in the wake of his prostitution scandal.

The subtext of course is that Spitzer left office in the midst of a prostitution scandal.

Never mind that voters don't seem to view Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace amid a prostitution scandal, all that favorably.

Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal.

Cuomo World in general has been dismissive of nearly everything Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace following a prostitution scandal, has to say about anything.

But it is almost certain that the reformatted and renamed program will further elevate Mr. Spitzer, the former New York governor who resigned the governorship in 2008 after being ensnared in a prostitution scandal.

«I thought the most appropriate first guest would be the gentleman who got me my last job,» cracked Paterson, making not the first joke about Spitzer's immolation in the wake of a prostitution scandal.

No reference is made to the prostitution scandal that forced him from office, but there is a suggestion Spitzer's shortened time as governor is enough of a sign he shouldn't be comptroller.

Several readers have written in to note the rather uncanny fact that the Kruger - Boyland - Lipsky et al corruption charges were unveiled on the three - year anniversary of the prostitution scandal that forced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer from office.

In the wake of the prostitution scandal that eventually forced him from office, Spitzer came under fire for (among other things) hypocrisy, with critics noting that he had busted at least two prostitution rings when he was AG and portrayed himself as a champion of women's rights.

While it's too early to determine how solid Spitzer's lead is — it is still unclear if he will have enough petition signatures to gain ballot access — 67 percent of voters in the poll believe the former governor should be given a second chance after resigning amid a prostitution scandal in March 2008.

The former governor said he still isn't able to laugh about the prostitution scandal that forced him to resign from office three years ago this month, but also doesn't «live in a hermetically sealed container and pretend things didn't happen.»

The list of state - level candidates to whom Trump has handed out include scandal - scarred state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who was sentenced last week to up to four years behind bars; former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned his post in the wake of a prostitution scandal and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is entering the New York City comptroller's race, re-entering the political fray after more than five years on the sidelines following the prostitution scandal that forced him to resign his statewide post.

He resigned in 2008 in the midst of a prostitution scandal.

If you click there, you get information about how Dinallo «uncovered» the Martin Act, which Spitzer used to take on Wall Street — the act for which he is most celebrated (although, since the prostitution scandal that forced him from office, perhaps not most well - known).

Spitzer, who was infamously forced from office in the spring of 2007 by a prostitution scandal, was reportedly urged by a number of people to try to stick it out, including his wife, Silda Wall Spitzer.

When he ascended to his current post in the wake of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's March 2008 prostitution scandal, Paterson and his family started using the executive mansion part - time.

Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal, telling WBEN's John Zach and Susan Rose:

Spitzer, as we all know, was forced to step down from the governor's office due to a prostitution scandal.

It's the tenth anniversary of the prostitution scandal that ended former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's political career.

Sure — even if you don't count the prostitution scandal.

In an exclusive interview with «CBS This Morning,» former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned amid a prostitution scandal, discusses his pl...

Spitzer would go on to resign after a prostitution scandal.

Spitzer, who resigned five years ago amid a prostitution scandal, leads Scott Stringer in the race for New York City

But Spitzer, the self - described «steamroller» who resigned as governor in 2008 after being snared in a prostitution scandal, said he's ready for a fight.

The Spitzer administration stuck to this pledge, but was gone in just over a year, undone by the governor's prostitution scandal.