The Governor will resign today, say aides.

Source: NY Times

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, reeling from revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring, will resign today, some of his staff members said they have been told, though the precise timing remains unclear.

Silda and Eliot Spitzer. Eliot has been learning to “turn his teeth in backwards and bite his throat”

Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson would then be sworn in to replace him in Albany. But because even Mr. Spitzer’s most senior aides have been so surprised by revelations of their boss’s behavior, they said that they cannot be certain about a resignation until Mr. Spitzer makes it official.

In other news, Dr. Laura Says Women share the blame for men who cheat:

Dr. Laura Schlessinger on Monday said that if a husband cheats, his wife may share some of the blame. “When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs,” the popular psychologist and radio personality said.

“You’re saying the women should feel guilty that they somehow drove the man to cheat?” asked TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira.

“The cheating was his decision to repair what’s damaged and to feed himself where he’s starving,” Schlessinger replied. “But, yes, I hold women responsible for tossing out perfectly good men by not treating them with the love and kindness and respect and attention they need.”

Is this what Dr. Laura means by making husbands happy? [nsfw]

Spitzer Got Tripped Up By Laws He Enforced:

As attorney general, he once broke up a call-girl ring and locked up 18 people on corruption, money-laundering and prostitution charges. He ruthlessly investigated the pay packages of Wall Street executives and was so familiar with shady financial maneuvers that he rose to become the top racketeering prosecutor in Manhattan.

… it seems he was tripped up by some of the very financial accounting methods he used so successfully against multibillion-dollar Wall Street firms…the governor initially drew the attention of federal investigators because of cash payments to an account operated by a call-girl ring. Banks are required to file Suspicious Activity Reports to the government whenever they observe something they fear may be a crime. In court papers, Client 9—identified by another law enforcement official as Spitzer—hurried to get more than $4,000 in cash to pay a call girl at a Washington hotel. That kind of activity, repeated over time, is just the kind of thing that would set off alarm bells with a bank’s compliance officer, who is trained to be on the lookout for what is called structuring or “smurfing”—a pattern of transactions aimed at hiding the nature or purpose of certain money.

Six Years of Hookers…

Source: Monsters and Critics/NY Post

Gov. Eliot “The Prince” Spitzer, is laying low after it has been revealed that he has been soliciting high-priced hookers for at least six years and possibly for more than a decade, The New York Post reports. The Post claims that Spitzer had “frequented high-priced hookers as far back as 2002 and possibly earlier.”