I have no sympathy. I can’t help it, but powerful people who behave this way strike me as the essence of…
Spitzer wired the call girl service the money. Granted, he set up a relatively elaborate blind to hide the transaction (it was his own money, not the state’s), primarily from his wife, but the fact is he established the monitoring protocols in the banking system in New York to catch exactly this kind of covert transfer. In other words, he made sure the system could catch him.
The first question that came to my mind was: why didn’t he use cash?…