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Spitzer Linked to Second Ring

Ex-governor patronized NY-based hooker operation since '03, Post charges

By Will McCahill, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 27, 2008 4:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer was a client of an upscale prostitution operation busted Tuesday in Manhattan, the New York Post reports. The news comes less than two weeks after Spitzer stepped down for patronizing a similar operation based in New Jersey. And as... Read full story »

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