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dc_dux, I don't know, but I kinda doubt it. It's very rare that johns get charged, but it's even rarer that some federal prosecutor has a bead on a state governor (outside Louisiana). So who the hell knows. I suspect a NY (Manhattan) jury won't be willing to convict someone whose "crime" is seeing prostitutes who are not underage, even with smoking gun evidence - and if that is the case, prosecutors won't bother prosecuting, at least not for that violation. The financial stuff, maybe, but even that doesn't strike me as a great case to bring - not because they couldn't prove the crime but because it's such a piece of shit crime that a judge and a jury would just get pissed off about it. What friends and colleagues of mine think might be the outcome is that they might bargain to give up his law license for a while. But it's really hard to know. If it turns out he used campaign money to pay "Kristen" - well, that would be a case that probably would get prosecuted. But I can't imagine Spitzer would have been that stupid.
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