It is my understanding that she had it addressed in their first pre-nup that he would not continue to be a playa. Originally Posted by LonesomeDoveHow did the agreement define "playa"?
- pjorourke
- 03-09-2010, 07:48 AM
- jdean208
- 03-09-2010, 10:15 PM
Bull fucking shit! he was a headline grabbing politician who bent the law to serve his own agenda and settle scores.PJ hit it squarely, firmly, thoroughly on the head. Screwing around with Hank Greenberg, after two silver stars, leading a landing at Normandy Beach on D-Day and building the single largest business entity on earth, is a risky endeavor. Greenberg got his civil cases settled, with an apology from the Trustee plaintiff, and the criminal charges never made it to indictment. And Spitzer goes down for getting caught hobbying. How many PIs do you think were on THAT trail? What a shocker.
As for that "grasp of moral hazard crap", there is a school of thought that he was an indirect cause of the financial meltdown -- ground zero of which was AIG and its London CDO unit. Spitzer had a hard on for the Greenberg family for supporting his opponents and fighting back against some of his more underhanded prosecution approaches. The father, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, ran AIG and built it into the most successful insurance company in the world. His two sons ran other insurance operations (Marsh Mac and Ace). Hank controlled about 20% of AIG's stock and ran the place with an iron hand -- as complicated as the place was, he knew everything that was happening. In 2005, Spitzer, as was his style, brought fraud and other charges against Greenberg relating to some reinsurance contracts that were written between AIG and Berkshire Hathaway (run by that fine Democrat Warren Buffet). BH wasn't charged, but as was his typical practice, Spitzer threatened to bring criminal charges against AIG itself (which would have killed the company) unless the Board replaced Greenberg as CEO and admitted guilt. The Board of course caved (as fiduciaries they had no choice) and replaced Greenberg with some #3 executive who was clearly underclubbed for the job. Spitzer's civil charges were never proven and Greenberg was later exonerated on the criminal charges. In the mean time, out from under Greenberg's thumb, those knuckleheads in London started throwing gasoline on the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac mess and the rest is history. Originally Posted by pjorourke
- Fast Gunn
- 03-09-2010, 11:30 PM
Please, don't encourage him!
You know how he gets!
You know how he gets!
- guest051510-1
- 03-10-2010, 12:17 AM
Bull fucking shit! he was a headline grabbing politician who bent the law to serve his own agenda and settle scores.
As for that "grasp of moral hazard crap", there is a school of thought that he was an indirect cause of the financial meltdown -- ground zero of which was AIG and its London CDO unit. Spitzer had a hard on for the Greenberg family for supporting his opponents and fighting back against some of his more underhanded prosecution approaches. The father, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, ran AIG and built it into the most successful insurance company in the world. His two sons ran other insurance operations (Marsh Mac and Ace). Hank controlled about 20% of AIG's stock and ran the place with an iron hand -- as complicated as the place was, he knew everything that was happening. In 2005, Spitzer, as was his style, brought fraud and other charges against Greenberg relating to some reinsurance contracts that were written between AIG and Berkshire Hathaway (run by that fine Democrat Warren Buffet). BH wasn't charged, but as was his typical practice, Spitzer threatened to bring criminal charges against AIG itself (which would have killed the company) unless the Board replaced Greenberg as CEO and admitted guilt. The Board of course caved (as fiduciaries they had no choice) and replaced Greenberg with some #3 executive who was clearly underclubbed for the job. Spitzer's civil charges were never proven and Greenberg was later exonerated on the criminal charges. In the mean time, out from under Greenberg's thumb, those knuckleheads in London started throwing gasoline on the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac mess and the rest is history. Originally Posted by pjorourke
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it for myself, but PJ can write more than just one liners.
- discreetgent
- 03-10-2010, 06:37 AM
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- 10-20-2010, 07:51 AM
Now, now he has been doing a lot of that lately. Just bring up topics like healthcare, npoa, etc and he can be a veritable fount of informationCertainly! -- he is PJ after all.Originally Posted by discreetgent
But in comparison to Spitzer PJ looks pale. Or as Kristin Davis writes on twitter: "spitzer went from $179,000 as gov -to 500,000 as talk show host".
A sample of Spitzer as CNN show host, with Bernard-Henri Lévy (aka BHL), Paulina Porizkova et al.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zsmiIpqAeQ
- macksback
- 10-21-2010, 06:30 PM
- Camille
- 10-22-2010, 02:06 AM
“For nearly 5 years, I supplied Mr. Spitzer with high priced escorts while he was both Attorney General and Governor. For this crime, I served four months on Rikers Island, had all of my assets confiscated and am now considered a sex offender on 5 years probation. Mr. Spitzer broke both state and federal laws and walked away free.”Pass me the puke bucket. Davis is a parasite. She is now embroiled in a law suit racket with another prostitute whereby they have been trying to sell their "story" of how they were supplying women to David Beckham. Not surprisgingly, Beckam was on that like a fly on shit. On the back of those actions by Davis ( and regardless what anyone thinks of Spitzer or Beckham) I don't believe for one second that she didn't trip the wire that sent the red flag up for Spitzer. She's a bottom feeder if ever there was one. Ugh.
--- Kristin Davis
Originally Posted by Sarcastro
- FLWrite
- 10-22-2010, 12:07 PM
- Rudyard K
- 10-22-2010, 01:24 PM
Davis?...Spitzer?
If you wrestle with pigs...expect to get dirty.
If you wrestle with pigs...expect to get dirty.