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Madam Protests Planned Lecture By Ex-AG Spitzer at Harvard Ethics Center
Posted Nov 11, 2009 4:51 PM CST
By Martha Neil
A madam who supplied former New York governor and attorney general Eliot Spitzer with high-priced escorts is more than a bit aggravated about his planned public lecture tomorrow at a Harvard University ethics center, reports the New York Daily News.
"I am greatly intrigued as to what Mr. Spitzer could contribute to an ethical discussion when as chief executive law enforcement officer of New York he broke numerous laws for which he has yet to be punished," says Kristin Davis in a protest letter to professor Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School. Lessig is also the director of Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, which is hosting the event.
Spitzer's lecture apparently will focus on law and policy: It is titled "From Ayn Rand to Ken Feinberg—How Quickly the Paradigm Shifts. What Should Be the Rationale for Government Participation in the Market?" according to a Harvard website listing for the free public talk.
This is also the arena in which Spitzer has been teaching a course as an adjunct professor at City College of New York.
Lessig did not immediately respond to Davis' complaint, the newspaper reports.
Earlier coverage:
ABAJournal.com (Mar. 2008): "Spitzer Resigns, Cites his ‘Private Failings’ "
ABAJournal.com (Nov. 2008): "Feds Won’t Charge Eliot Spitzer, Ex-New York Governor and AG"
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Comments
B. McLeod
Nov 11, 2009 5:11 PM CST
It isn’t that the criticism isn’t valid, but is she the party with “standing”? I mean, whatever else you might say of Client 9, he always paid (and paid well) for his hookers.
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Ooona Hoodvern
Nov 12, 2009 6:20 AM CST
McLeod, the madame does not make any money “standing”. You should know that even the madame occasionally services some of the older clientele, and NOT on the house.
But talk about the pot calling the kettle brown! As for Spitzer, he may have settled his financial arrangement promptly, but I think he wanted kinky things done sans STD protection. He did, however, keep his socks on, thereby sparing the whores the stench of his feet.
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Esq.
Nov 12, 2009 9:45 AM CST
The man is an attorney, not a priest. He’s lecturing on the philosophy of ethics, not preaching it.
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Brad Henchel, JD
Nov 12, 2009 1:37 PM CST
Spitzer is a good example of legal ethics and how they are applied. A a solo lawyer in Texas gets disciplined and disbarred for having too much debt at $68,000 and Spitzer isn’t prosecuted for his solicitation of interstate prostitution. What is good for one is good for all. Spitzer and the Duke-LaCrosse prosecutor prove what is really going on with so-called lawyer discipline, hypocrisy. The ABA is allowing the Calif Bar to suspend over 10,000 lawyers in 4 years and disabar thousands of others while the Bar itself has committed so many ethics violations and laws the Calif Bar had it dues bill vetoed by the Gov. of Calif. For example, the CalBar Direct. of Real Estate stole 2/3 Million Dollar$$ from the Bar Members. Bar Prosecutors make ex-parte communications with State Bar Court Judges, false declarations are submitted by the Bar to punish those that challenege them or make complaints. It is now so bad for Solo practitioners in Calif that the Superior Courts have to have self help centers because the flood of pro se litigants, who can’t get a lawyer to help them, has reached flood proportions. So Court Clerks are practicing law by telling litigants what forms to use and how to fill them out in violation of State laws B&P 6125, 6126. The ABA is silent. Hearings will be held in Jan. 2010 on changes the CalBar will have to make to get it’s funding bill passed. It will be extensive.
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