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Spitzer Expected to Resign Within 48 Hours

NY gov will step down within 48 hours, sources tell local TV station

Mar 10, 08 11:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer, enmeshed in a federal investigation of a prostitution ring, will resign as governor of New York, likely within the next 2 days, CBS 2 in New York reports. Spitzer held a press conference today to apologize but didn't indicate what he was apologizing for and gave no indication... More »

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OPINION

What's Next for Spitzer?

Writers speculate on how we got here—and where we go

Mar 10, 08 3:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amid reports that Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a wiretap in a prostitution investigation, stunned political bloggers are speculating on whether the New York governor will resign, parsing how we got here—and where we go:
  • Politicians have outlived sex scandals in the past, writes Mark Silva, but
... More »

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(Newser) - In a brief press conference, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer this afternoon apologized to his family and to the public, "whom I've promised better" for failing "to live up to the standards I set for myself."  The former attorney general is reportedly identified as Client 9... More »

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Spitzer Linked to Prostitution Ring

NY gov ID'd as client of international operation: source

Mar 10, 08 1:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York has informed his senior staff that he was involved with a prostitution ring, the New York Times reports. Spitzer has canceled scheduled events for the day and is set to make an announcement this afternoon from his office in Manhattan. Spitzer, who rose to... More »

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Star's Naked Photos Drive Hong Kong Wild

Images leaked from movie star's laptop trigger 'media tsunami'

Feb 27, 08 1:07 PM CST
(Newser) - It all started when Edison Chen, a Hong Kong actor and hip-hop artist, took his laptop in for repairs. Turned out Chen had on his hard drive more than a thousand photos of himself, naked, with more than a dozen of the island's leading actresses and singers. Someone at the... More »

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China • sex scandal • Hong Kong • pornography • nude photo • Edison Chen

Senate Scolds Craig Over Bathroom Sting

Ethics panel says
he 'discredited' the chamber with scandal

Feb 13, 08 9:14 PM CST
(Newser) - The Senate Ethics Committee had stern words for embattled Idaho Sen. Larry Craig today, issuing a "letter of admonition" that rebukes him for his arrest in a Minneapolis airport sex sting last June. The letter accuses Craig of committing actions that reflected "discreditably on the Senate," CNN... More »

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Detroit Mayor to City: I'm Sorry!

But he won't resign, despite affair
and possible
perjury charges

Jan 31, 08 3:22 AM CST
(Newser) - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick apologized to Detroit on television last night following news earlier this month of an extramarital affair that he insisted under oath did not exist. "I want to say to the citizens of this great city: I'm sorry," he said. But despite repeated entreaties for forgiveness,... More »

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Detroit Mayor's Aide Quits in Steamy Text Scandal

Councilors call for probe into $8.4M payout

Jan 28, 08 5:45 PM CST
(Newser) - A Detroit official quit today after steamy text messages linked her to the mayor in an ongoing sex scandal, the Detroit News reports. Christine Beatty regretted "the devastation that the recent reports have caused" and wrote "that I can no longer effectively carry out the duties of chief... More »

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Malaysian Minister Quits Over Sex Tape

Secretly recorded video might be part of power struggle

Jan 2, 08 8:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Malaysia's health minister resigned today after a videotape surfaced of him having sex with a woman 30 years his junior. Chua Soi Lek, married with three children, was filmed without his knowledge in a hotel room by four different cameras, Bloomberg reports. Opposition parties claimed that the sex tape's dissemination... More »

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Teen Sex Teacher
Busted Again

Violated probation by talking sex with young female co-worker: cops

Dec 5, 07 3:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Former middle school teacher Debra LaFave, who was convicted of having sex with a 14-year-old male student, was arrested yesterday in Florida for violating her probation by having unsupervised contact with a minor, police said. LaFave had been working as a waitress, and is accused of repeatedly discussing personal problems,... More »

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Sex Scandal Roils Atlanta Megachurch

After DNA test, archbishop admits
'nephew' is his son

Nov 22, 07 3:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Revelations was the theme of the day for a scandal-plagued Atlanta church as its archbishop had to admit that his "nephew" is really his son. And worse, he’d lied about it under oath, AP reports. A court-ordered DNA test showed Archbishop Earl Paulk fathered D.E. Paulk. Both... More »

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Stripper Spanks Schoolboy While Class Watches

British teen gets real birthday 'surprise'

Nov 9, 07 12:16 PM CST
(Newser) - A British teenager who was supposed to get a "gorilla-gram" for his birthday instead got a spanking from a stripper dressed as a policewoman in front of his teacher and classmates, reports Sky News. The boy's mother had arranged for an unidentified agency to give her son the "... More »

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Craig Can't Rescind Guilty Plea

Judge denies Idaho senator's request

Oct 4, 07 2:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Minnesota judge today rejected Sen. Larry Craig's attempt to rescind his guilty plea in a June men's bathroom sex sting, saying it had been entered "accurately, voluntarily, and intelligently," CNN reports. There was no immediate response from the Idaho Republican, who had said he would resign if... More »

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Craig Is Back on the Job

Idaho Senator returns to Senate after sex scandal

Sep 18, 07 5:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Larry Craig returned to the Senate today, 2 weeks after he announced his resignation and 3 weeks after news broke that he was caught up in a sex sting in an airport restroom. The Idaho conservative cast two votes and had lunch with some Republican colleagues, but others—including John... More »

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Senator's John Is New Tourist Hot Spot

Airport  men's room now on must-see list—even for women

Sep 17, 07 7:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Be careful about tapping your foot in Minneapolis’ latest tourist destination. Travelers passing through the airport are clamoring to see the bathroom made famous by Sen. Larry Craig’s arrest last month in a sex sting. “We had to stop and check out the bathroom,” said one jet-set... More »

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Mugabe Critic Quits Over
Sex Scandal

Archbishop's supporters suspect regime is behind adultery lawsuit

Sep 12, 07 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - An archbishop and prominent critic of Robert Mugabe's regime has resigned his Catholic Church leadership position after being accused of having an affair with a married woman. Pius Ncube remains a bishop, and his supporters say they see the authoritarian Zimbabwean regime behind the scandal, which Ncube calls "a... More »

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Craig Moves
 to Retract
 Guilty Plea

Strategy could delay resignation and stave off ethics probe

Sep 10, 07 3:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Toe-tapping Senator Larry Craig will file a motion today to retract his guilty plea to charges linked to allegedly soliciting sex in a public men's room. Minnesota law allows convicts to recant pleas if they can prove they were not intelligently made, but such strategies rarely succeed. The legal proceedings... More »

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Craig's Kids Say He Was 'Victim of Circumstance'

Son insists ex-senator's actions in bathroom were misinterpreted

Sep 4, 07 5:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Idaho senator Larry Craig was just in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was arrested in a bathroom sex sting in June, his children told Good Morning America today. “He was a victim of circumstance,” said his son, who, with his sister, believes his father's... More »

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Republican
Scandal Level Approaches Self-Parody

GOP insider: 'You can’t make this stuff up'

Aug 29, 07 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Larry Craig's bathroom toe tap is only the latest in a seemingly endless string of scandal that has Republicans at wit's end, the NY Times reports. Such episodes are fueling voter suspicion of a party already tied to an unpopular president and the Iraq war. "We are approaching... More »

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ethics • Republican • sex scandal • GOP • Ted Stevens • David Vitter • Larry Craig • scandal • Iraq war

Idaho Paper Spills Years of Dirt on Craig

Some question why story wasn't released earlier

Aug 28, 07 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Idaho Statesman today released the results of a five-month investigation into charges of sexual improprieties against Sen. Larry Craig—including an encounter in a Washington, D.C., train station described to the paper by the other man. The paper held the story for months after Craig denied the allegations.... More »

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