that was all eliot spitzer. ed the whole prostitute thing, he was putting money into a small regional bank that was just underneath the money laundering rules, and so the bank reports him. like, the governor-- they know his name. he's the governor. i mean, he doesn't just do a transaction that would draw attention. he does it in a place where they would notice, in his own name. and spitzer was sending these shady wire transfers to an obvious shell company, which soon revealed itself to be a front for a prostitution ring that the fbi was already investigating. once those dots got connected, the former sheriff of wall street was done for. he ran the rackets bureau at the manhattan d.a.'s office, so he knows the way this works, and to the extent that he says, "oh, i thought i'd get away with it"-- either that is simply an outright lie, or it is an indication of such massive self-deception that that also says something about what's going on and not going on in this guy's mind. right. after the first press conference,

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