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Jinn, I agree with you, except that Spitzer was quite emphatic about prosecuting prostitution rings when he was State AG, and was pretty moralistic about it in his press conferences. So this has a bit of "what goes around comes around" about it. He was very very "holier than thou," ostentatiously so.
He also was taking steps to hide the money transfers he had to make in order to pay for the women's time. That's how he got caught: banks monitor wire transfers and report suspicious movements to the feds. So it wasn't the prostitution that sunk him, it was the skulking around, which skated close to the money laundering laws. I don't know whether the technical terms of the money laundering statutes were violated, but I believe what he did is called "structuring" - doing money transfers in bits for the purpose of disguising their purpose. Structuring is a crime. We'll see what the feds do.
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