What chutzpah: Spitzer to give ethics lecture at Harvard

By CLEMENTE LISI

Last Updated: 3:31 PM, November 11, 2009

Posted: 2:05 PM, November 11, 2009

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Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will give a lecture Thursday on ethics at Harvard University -- something that has angered the madam who once supplied him with high-priced hookers.

"I am greatly intrigued as to what Mr. Spitzer could contribute to an ethical discussion when as Chief Executive Law Enforcement Officer of NY he broke numerous laws for which he has yet to be punished," Kristin Davis wrote in a protest letter to Professor Lawrence Lessig at Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.

"As Attorney General he went around arresting and making examples out of the same escort agencies he was frequenting."

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Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer

Spitzer, 50, was forced to resign as governor in 2008 after it was revealed that he was the client of a prostitution ring at the center of a federal investigation. It was revealed that Spitzer -- described in court papers as Client No. 9 -- had paid to have sex with call-girl Ashley Dupree.

Calling Spitzer a "man without ethics," Davis listed seven reasons why Harvard should reconsider. She asks whether Spitzer was ethical for booking "an assignation with a escort under a fake name after you were banned by my agency for being abusive to women?"

She concludes her letter by saying, "Please let me know what Mr. Spitzer, a man without ethics, says."

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hughglass

11/12/2009 11:27 AM

Smart move. The old lech will save fortune. Harvard liberal punchboards give it away for nothing.
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NewYorker AlltheWay

11/11/2009 11:37 PM

This is like the ESPN guy lecturing groomsmen on how to remain faithful to their wives.
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NewYorker AlltheWay

11/11/2009 11:34 PM

This is like guy who recently shot and killed all of those soldiers in Texas because he was being deployed to Iraq, getting discharged from military services and going on a lecture tour about fostering positive race relations in the United States.
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NewYorker AlltheWay

11/11/2009 11:30 PM

This is like the MTA bus driver who just ran over an FIT student on 9th Avenue getting fired and opening up a driving school.
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Mark_D

11/11/2009 10:06 PM

I checked, it's not April first. Harvard should check attendees names and revoke the diplomas of any students or alumni who attend. Gullible fool or moral reprobate, they stain the reputation of the school.

TWhat next, the Yale lab assistant gives a talk on how to get along with difficult co-workers?
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Qtaug

11/11/2009 7:21 PM

at least they had the sense not to ask him to speak on morality!
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Old School LowerEast Side

11/11/2009 5:39 PM

Ok, Spitzer as well as Harvard has a lot of you know what to allow do this event: However,when the $5000.00 was laid (no pun intended)on the barrel(or electronically sent in today's jargon) Ms. Madam Brothel Manager could see no evil, speak no evil, or hear no evil with one of her best clients!!!
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Heeeeeeere's ED

11/11/2009 5:32 PM

This is like Letterman interviewing interns......