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One of them ran in the Sun-Times November 10 under the charmless but eye-catching headline, “Getting busted with a hooker may get more expensive.” The paper reported that the Cook County Board is considering a new ordinance that would add stiff civil penalties to the slap on the wrist now meted out to anyone guilty of the crime of soliciting a prostitute.
The other story the CFW was unhappy with ran November 7 in the New York Times. The Times reported that Michael Garcia, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, has decided “not to press charges against former Gov. Eliot Spitzer for his involvement with a high-priced prostitution ring last year.” Three reasons were given: “Mr. Spitzer had apparently not used any public money or campaign funds for his trysts; there was insufficient evidence that he had broken the law in how he had structured payments to the call-girl ring; and, finally, it was not the policy of his or other federal prosecutors’ offices to charge the customers in matters of prostitution.”
