First, it is noteworthy that the author of this article is the journalistic equivalent of Monica Lewinsky, overlooking each and every crime of the Clintons for some real or imagined wrong against their grasp of power. I never once saw Conason apply to the Clintons, anything even remotely resembling the standards that he now applies to Spitzer. Hypocrisy, thy name is not just Spitzer, but also Conasan. Having said that, Spitzer did not ride in like Brandeis, or the Roosevelts. Instead, he rode in like Stalin or Laverente Beria, his thug. He personally sought to ruin the lives of people he could not indict, he extorted money from businesses by threatenting them with the death penatly, indictment, to forward his own personal ambitions. He ruined people without any regard for their reputations or their families. He chose an easy foil, Wall Street, and then, in own egocentric hubris, placed himself as the protector of the common man, when in reality, he was onlu furthering his own ambitions. My hope is that once he is indicted, he is faced with a prosecutor and a judge with the same measure of mercy that he showed others. This is a truly bad man, who, like Mike Nifong, was willing to ruin other people, destroy reputations, crush businesses, and send innocents to jail, all for the purpose of furthering his own political ambitions. If there is any justice, Spitzer will end up in jail and financially ruined, along with his journalistic enablers.