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PI: Mob Took Down Spitzer

a PI suspects sex scandal was Gambino paypack

By Elizabeth Wolff, Newser User

Posted Aug 28, 2008 9:12 AM CDT

(Newser) – A new epilogue to the best-selling book King of the Club suggests that Eliot Spitzer’s political and personal downfall was payback by the mafia, the New York Post reports. "I think it's the Gambinos," a private eye tells CNBC's Charles Gasparino in... Read full story »

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