Was Spitzer going to go Anti Broadwater?

[hollis]

http://www.rpalumni.org/nolng/index.htm


just wondering.

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http://www.rpalumni.org/nolng/index.htm
just wondering.


More like right-wing elements of Wall St. taking their revenge against him. When he was district attorney of N.Y. he pretty much went after them and now it's pay back time. it's easy to set these power-seeking people up with a beautiful girl as the carrot.

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[hollis]

Looks like he got under their skin in more ways than one:

http://www.thealbanyproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2187

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More on Spitzer...

The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked


by Greg Palast

"While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an "escort" $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush's new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators.

Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there's a BIG difference. The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush's man Bernanke was using ours.

This week, Bernanke's Fed, for the first time in its history, loaned a selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee these banks' mortgage-backed junk bonds. The deluge of public loot was an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought two million families to the brink of foreclosure.

Up until Wednesday, there was one single, lonely politician who stood in the way of this creepy little assignation at the bankers' bordello: Eliot Spitzer.

Who are they kidding? Spitzer's lynching and the bankers' enriching are intimately tied.

How? Follow the money.

The press has swallowed Wall Street's line that millions of US families are about to lose their homes because they bought homes they couldn't afford or took loans too big for their wallets. Ba-LON-ey. That's blaming the victim.

Here's what happened...." READ MORE (http://www.gregpalast.com/)

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[gene]

For a very humorous explaination of how the markets work,

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/187.html

For a not so humorous and detailed,

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936

Gene