Manhattan Escorts: Andrew Cuomo hasn’t risen to the top – Spitzer, Paterson and Hevesi have plummeted
Take another look at the batting order ahead of Cuomo. Hevesi was the first to resign, in December of ‘06. He punched his own ticket out of office in a plea bargain in Albany. He copped to one count of defrauding the government, having been caught using state employees to help care for his ailing wife. It kept him away from a grand jury indictment. He paid a $5,000 fine on his way out the door and is banned from ever again holding elective office.
Spitzer was the next to go, of course, March of 2008. He rode into the governor’s mansion as a white knight and ended up at hotels with girls from an escort service. Spitzer finally got caught with pants down, quit, turned the job over to Paterson.