Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York, has resigned after being connected to a sex scandal. He was caught after officials noticed suspicious bank payments to call-girl rings; they then monitored prostitutes visiting him in his hotel rooms.

According to authorities, Spitzer paid more than $80,000 to prostitutes during the past several months. This is the same man who fought for an “ethical and wise government,” as he outlined in his inaugural address.
 
More than 70 percent of New Yorkers wanted the governor to resign, and they got their wish this morning. In his statement, Spitzer said the strongest people can still “rise,” even after a fall. He apologized to his family, including his wife and three teenage daughters.
 
Spitzer will most likely be prosecuted on a federal level since he paid a prostitute to travel from New York to his Washington D.C. hotel room in mid-February; crossing state lines makes it a federal violation.
 
Spitzer was caught after bank officials noticed suspicious withdrawals; all banks monitor people’s transactions, but Politically Exposed Persons, or PEPs, get the most attention. PEPs include all government officials, and Spitzer was no exception. What is interesting is the PEP program was installed after the events of 9/11, as well as because of Spitzer’s own crackdown on Wall Street fraud.
 
If anyone should have been wary of bank monitoring, say authorities, it should have been Spitzer.
 

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