# Was Eliot Spitzer targeted by the Feds? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 1, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eliot-spitzer-targeted-by-the-feds/470625 "2008-11-01T20:06:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EasyPhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@EasyPhil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EasyPhil)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eliot-spitzer-targeted-by-the-feds/470625/1 "2008-11-01T20:06:20Z")
From this link… [http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/25-bushs-real-problem-with-eliot-spitzer](http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/25-bushs-real-problem-with-eliot-spitzer) > **[Eliot's Mess - Greg Palast](https://www.gregpalast.com/elliot-spitzer-gets-nailed/)** > > The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked > [@](#): > > The exposure of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer’s tryst with a luxury call girl had little to do with the Bush administration’s high moral standards for public servants. Author F. William Engdahl advises that, “in evaluating spectacular scandals around prominent public figures, it is important to ask what and who might want to eliminate that person.” Timing suggests that Spitzer was likely a target of a White House and Wall Street operation to silence one of its most dangerous and vocal critics of their handling of the current financial market crisis. > > Spitzer had become increasingly public in blaming the Bush administration for the subprime crisis. He testified in mid-February before the US House of Representatives Financial Services subcommittee and later that day, in a national CNBC interview, laid blame squarely on the administration for creating an environment ripe for predatory lenders. > > On February 14, the Washington Post published an editorial by Spitzer titled, “Predatory Lenders’ Partner in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers,” which charged, “Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.” Do you think that Eliot Spitzer was targeted for attempting to shine a light on the Bush Administrations involvement and complicity in what became to be the cause of the current financial crisis? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eliot-spitzer-targeted-by-the-feds/470625/2 "2008-11-01T20:18:55Z")
I am sure he was targeted,but he was still vulnerable due to his actions. They were on his case for a long time. he did a lot of good for the common folk and hurt some rich. That is dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eliot-spitzer-targeted-by-the-feds/470625/3 "2008-11-01T20:49:11Z")
[http://www.financial-planning.com/asset/article/527390/aig-and-spitzer-announce-landmark-settlement.html](http://www.financial-planning.com/asset/article/527390/aig-and-spitzer-announce-landmark-settlement.html) Here where Spitzer got AIG to stop deceptive accounting practices and cover ups. This was is 2006. Eliot was hit presumably because he had bank transactions which were flagged. It was later discovered that he was paying for big time hookers. Generally our politicians names are not even released. They were after him. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eliot-spitzer-targeted-by-the-feds/470625/4 "2008-11-01T22:54:34Z")
Whether they were out to get him would not have been relevant if he had not been gettable. You can’t be the morality police if you’re immoral yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eliot-spitzer-targeted-by-the-feds/470625/5 "2008-11-02T15:20:24Z")
My guess is that if Spitzer was targeted, it was more likely to have been one of his numerous political opponents in New York. ---
**Author:** ![brickbacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-eliot-spitzer-targeted-by-the-feds/470625/6 "2008-11-02T15:35:33Z")
It’s kinda sad that his name is mud now because he could have proved quite useful in holding people accountable for this Wall Street mess.