Originally Posted by SirSeymour

Whether or not she is prosecuted does answer the question about if she deserves an "upside" for having broken the law. Not that I would in anyway excuse Spitzer in this as his actions speak for themselves but it could be argued that if she (and others like her) did not have their services for sale in the first place he would not have had opportunity to break the law. And yet she stands to gain not once but twice...once for having been paid a huge sum of money on at least one occasion for what one has to assume was a few hours effort at most and then again by trading on the celebrity achieved when her client was publicly taken down.