Latest news with #EliotSpitzer
Bloomberg
a day ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Sean Combs Was Just an Escort Client Like Eliot Spitzer, Lawyer Argues
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' is planning an appeal arguing the federal prostitution statute he was convicted under wasn't meant to apply to run-of-the-mill clients of adult escorts like himself, Combs' lead attorney told Bloomberg Law. For example: Eliot Spitzer. The former New York governor was 'a regular client of the Emperor's Club"—the escort ring Spitzer patronized—"and they didn't prosecute Spitzer at all, who was arguably in the exact same position as Combs,' Combs lawyer Marc Agnifilo said in an interview Tuesday. 'So it makes the point with a tangible example that they don't typically prosecute these kinds of cases.'
Wall Street Journal
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Can Anyone Stop Zohran Mamdani?
New York Andrew Cuomo's first political campaign went as disastrously as his last one did. It was 2002, and Mr. Cuomo was seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. He was 44 and had never held elective office, but at one point he held a double-digit lead over rival H. Carl McCall, a veteran politician 22 years Mr. Cuomo's senior. Mr. McCall, the state comptroller, had the support of establishment figures such as Sen. Chuck Schumer and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
