Parsing the Affidavit: Late Payments and Haggling Appear to Have Done Spitzer In

Thanks to the affidavit filed in federal court, the world now knows that Client 9 of the Emperors Club VIP—who Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) all but announced was him in his brief statement to the press Monday afternoon— has a taste for sexual activities that an employee of the Emperors Club referred to as “things that like, you might not think were safe.”

But the striking thing about the wiretap which ensnared Spitzer and seems poised to be the nail in the coffin of his once-ascendant political career is that the evidence against him might not have been obtained if he had simply paid his bills promptly and accepted the terms laid down by the prostitution ring. Client 9 apparently has only himself and the slow pace of the United States Postal Service to blame.

Read full ["Parsing the Affidavit" by NYPress political editor Edward-Isaac Dovere here.]