While four Spitzer administration officials were charged for breaking the law by misusing the State Police to smear a rival, former Governor Spitzer--who knew full well what was going on--wasn't charged. State Commission on Public Integrity head Richard Teitelbaum, though, suggested Spitzer could potentially face charges, telling the Post, "If there's additional evidence that is received, we will deal with that evidence... We will pursue that evidence." (Teitelbaum's law firm did donate to Spitzer's various......

The State Commission on Public Integrity found that four Spitzer administrations officials broke the law as they tried to smear Spitzer's rival, former State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno. However there were no charges for former Governor Spitzer. Spitzer's former chief of staff Richard Baum, homeland security adviser William Howard, former acting State Police superintendent Preston Felton and former Spitzer communications director Darren Dopp were accused of misusing the State Police, by trying to catch......

Ashley Alexandra Dupre, aka expensive escort "Kristen" who romped with former Governor Spitzer, was spotted at the Gramercy Park Hotel on Tuesday by photographers hoping for a glimpse of Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson. Dupre was accompanied by Thomas "TJ" Earle, a NJ asphalt scion who lives 2 miles from Dupre in NJ...and who is very married. We guess she hasn't moved to LA yet. The Post reports the two retreated to the hotel after......

Among the charges noted on former Governor Eliot Spitzer's campaign filings, there were two room charges at the Mayflower Hotel--the very same D.C. hotel when he trysted with an expensive hooker on February 13. Now, the NY Times says it's "unclear what nights were covered, or whether Mr. Spitzer stayed at the hotel" and Spitzer 2010 spokesperson said, "Every single hotel and airline expense in this filing, as in all filings for Spitzer 2010, was......

A woman who worked part-time for the high class escort service used by former Governor Spitzer has accepted a plea agreement. Tanya Hollander, who is a holistic health counselor, will plead to lesser charges than the Emperors Club's head, Mark Brener, his girlfriend Cecil Suwal who ran the operation, and Tameka Lewis who booked appointments. Brener, Suwal and Lewis have all pleaded guilty to prostitution conspiracy and money laundering. Hollander's lawyer hopes his client can......

After yesterday's rumors about Ashley Alexandra Dupre setting her sights on MTV reality TV fame, the Post found the high-class hooker who serviced former Governor Eliot Spitzer at the Jersey Shore. While she only offered a "coy giggle" and a "no comment" when asked about reality show plans, her mom said, "You'll have to follow her out to LA."......

When a Girls Gone Wild video surfaced featuring Ashley Alexandra Dupre, aka the expensive hooker who serviced Eliot Spitzer, Dupre quickly moved to sue the GGW operation and founder Joe Francis for $10 million, claiming she was under 18 in the video. But then Francis fired back, by releasing a video showing Dupre saying she is over 18. Now her lawyer says she's dropping the lawsuit and will "focus on the positive." A statement released......

Even though everyone knows Albany is full of people doing terrible things, even politicians and lobbyists are shocked at the events of the past year, from Comptroller Alan Hevesi stepping down from Comptroller to former Senate Majority leader Joseph Bruno retiring, with nadir/peak being Eliot Spitzer's fall from grace. Various parties share their amazement with the times--lobbyists don't want to look at their Blackberries, Governor Paterson acknowledges the "consistent number of weird situations that just......

Long before Kristen and Hookergate, former Governor Eliot Spitzer was embroiled in Troopergate, a spectacularly misguided attempt to smear his rival, State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, with state police records. Now, the Spitzer aide most identified with the scandal is trying to set the record straight, but the state ethics panel apparently isn't having any of that. The NY Times speaks with Darren Dopp, former communications director under Spitzer. Dopp, who was suspended and......

According to New York's Daily Intel, former governor Eliot Spitzer, his wife and three daughters will be traveling to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia for a 10-day vacation. A spokeswoman confirmed the trip (though not the countries they are visiting) said it was daughter Elyssa's idea, so we expect Eliot to avoid the red light districts.......

The 23-year-old woman who helped run the prostitution ring that counted former governor Eliot Spitzer as a customer is pleading guilty to money laundering charges. Cecil Suwal, who went to a NJ prep school (yearbook photo pictured), started working for the Emperors Club after answering an ad. She later become involved with owner Mark Brener, 62. Brener is pleading innocent and is awaiting trial. Temeka Rachelle Lewis, the ring's booker, pleaded guilty last month and......

When will our new issue of the New Yorker come? Because the infamous GOP operative Roger Stone tells writer Jeffrey Toobin how he learned of former Governor Spitzer's love of "ladies of the night"--and by the looks of Page Six's first look, it's a must-read! Stone (who may or may not have left a rude voicemail on Spitzer's dad's phone calling Eliot a "phony, psycho piece of s---") has previously claimed credit for helping tip......

A prostitution ring named Excalibur! Hookers! Puns about men with big swords! A NY Governor who uses a hooker! Federal authorities who hate the governor! And a blog that gossips about the Manhattan DA! Law & Order stacked the deck last night in its season finale, by trying to involve murder, rising gold prices, Governor Spitzer's dalliances, and back room politics in one episode. In case you missed the show, there's a 2-minute "replay"......

Hey, check out who is looking terrific--it's Silda Wall Spitzer! The Daily News describes Eliot's wife, who had been suffering in the spotlight two months ago, as looking "radiant" and "stunning" (and who are we to disagree--see this gallery) at a benefit for charity, Children for Children. Also in attendance: The Spitzers' daughter Sarabeth, George Stephanopoulos (who presented an award to ABC News head David Westin and his wife Sherrie Rollins Westin, who heads Sesame......

Tonight, in the 18th season finale of Law & Order (NBC, 10 p.m.), the detectives investigate the murder of a jeweler whose brother-in-law runs an illegal prostitution ring called The Excalibur Club. And in true ripped-from-the-headlines fashion, one of Excalibur's VIP clients is NY Governor Donald Shalvoy (guess "Schmelliot Schmitzer" didn't really sound that good). According to the AP, the fact that a governor is involved "creates a quandary for District Attorney Jack McCoy,......

The siren song of the Big Apple lured Ashley Alexandra Dupre back! The 23-year-old known better as "Kristen," former Governor Spitzer's high class prostitute, was spotted taking a bus from NJ (she's been living with her parents) into the Port Authority. Three guesses: the Emperors' Club VIP took a big chunk of her fees; she hasn't been paid for her music; or she believes very strongly in ways to reduce her carbon footprint. Of course,......

Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis answered a $10 million lawsuit by releasing a video showing Ashley Dupre giving an assumed name AND claiming she was 18. Dupré, the hooker made notorious because of her connection with former Governor Spitzer, had sued GGW for the millions, claiming she was underage in a video the company released shortly after the Spitzer scandal broke. Here's how AP describes the new video:In the new release, Dupre appears......

Roger Stone, infamous GOP operative who formerly consulted for the NY State GOP, tells NY1 that he "told the FBI in November of Spitzer's possible involvement in a prostitution ring." An interview with Stone will be broadcast on tonight's "Inside City Hall." Stone explains that he met "high-priced call girl" at an "adult club in Florida," "The service got a call to send somebody for an assignation with Eliot Spitzer, but he specified that he......

Photo of Spitzer and Sen. Schumer, by aboutmattlaw at flickr Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has emerged from his upstate seclusion and now has his nose back to the grindstone--this time in the private sector. There was no need to polish his resumé, however, as his new boss is his father. Bernard Spitzer, who is 83 years old and suffering from Alzheimer's, amassed a half-billion dollar real estate and money management empire during......

The NY Post caught former governor Eliot Spitzer and Silda Wall Spitzer at NYU Medical Center yesterday evening. The Post has a photo gallery and wonders, "Could it have been couple's therapy?" The Spitzers had different seating arrangements in their chauffeured Lexus: Spitzer was sitting in the front seat when the car picked up his wife from their 5th Avenue home (she sat in back), but when picked up from NYU, the Spitzers sat in......

Today, a Newsday editorial suggests Albany DA David Soares was either "afraid" or "just incompetent" when it came to reporting about former Governor Eliot Spitzer's involvement in using the state police to smear his political rival. Well, that's what happens when you initially say Spitzer had nothing to do with the Troopergate scandal, and then issue another report saying Spitzer was actively involved. Yesterday, the Daily News's Michael Goodwin added Soares to the list of......

Albany County District Attorney David Soares released a second report saying that former Governor Eliot Spitzer did, according to an aide's testimony, tell his aides to release state travel records about his Republican rival in a smear attempt. This report reverses Soares' September report, which concluded Spitzer's aides broke no laws. Interestingly, Soares says if Spitzer had not resigned, he could have faced impeachment or other disciplinary action because he lied about his involvement, repeatedly......

Sure, politicians, pundits, psychiatrists, and anyone else who can string together two words have weighed in on Eliot Spitzer's disgrace. But it's just cuter when a little princess explains it all.......

Okay, not all the details of East Side madam Kristin Davis's black book are revealed, but quite a few are highlighted in the Daily News today. Davis, busted earlier this week for running a prostitution ring in Manhattan apartments, reportedly has the "largest black book in America." In reality, the black book is actually a computer spread sheet that "logs more than $1.1 million in business" from a variety of men, some of whom gave......

Just as news settles that former Governor Eliot Spitzer was personally involved in trying to bring down rival State Senator Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, the Albany DA's office probably won't prosecute anyone in the Troopergate mess. Not only will former Spitzer spokesman Darren Dopp, who leaked information about Bruno to the Times Union back in July, not face perjury charges, it also looks like Attorney General Andrew Cuomo knew about Spitzer's plan to use the......

Former Governor Eliot Spitzer was deeply involved with the plot to smear rival State Senator Joseph Bruno to the point of being so mad he would spit his coffee, according to NY Times sources. Troopergate investigation insiders described testimony Spitzer's former communications director Darren Dopp gave, indicating the former governor's extreme interest in taking Bruno down, by way of leaking state police records on Bruno to Albany newspaper The Times Union. (The Times Union wrote......

According to the tabloids (and the Miami Herald), apparently, former Governor Spitzer would not only solicit high-priced call girls in Florida but that he'd keep his black mid-calf socks on during the deed. Take that, NY Times story about finding the good in Spitzer's term as Governor! Of course, these socking claims come from GOP operative Roger Stone, who may or may not have left a rude voicemail on Spitzer's dad's phone, calling Eliot a......

Federal prosecutors have asked the NY State Inspector General to "refrain from launching" its own investigation into former Governor Spitzer activities (the Post translates it as "a double-life as a sleazy harlot-hopper"). Why? Because the feds says they are "looking at all aspects." Well, why not, when it seems that the feds used "some of its most intrusive tactics" against Spitzer during the investigation. The NY Times has an article about the Justice Department's aggressive......

Uh oh, Joe Francis! The lawyer for Governor Spitzer's call girl says she was only 17 when she made a Girls Gone Wild video a few years ago. Apparently Ashley Alexandra Dupre (known to Spitzer as "Kristen") only turned 18 a month after the video was shot. Lawyer Don Buchwald wrote in an e-mail Dupre was kicked off the GGW bus "because she was underage...It would be outrageous at the very least to play the......

Above images from Girls Gone Wild, below image from the Post Leave it to Joe Francis to make sure Hookergate stays dirty! The Girls Gone Wild founder told the Daily News, "We have some really great footage of Ashley. She was really into girl-on-girl action." The News reports that initially Francis was offering $1 million to Ashely Alexandra Dupre, aka "Kristen," the "American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5-feet-5 inches and 105 pounds" hooker who......