Breaking! Spitzer linked to prostitution ring!

According to the New York Times, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has told aides he is involved with a prostitution ring, and will hold a press conference at 2:15 EDT.

Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring

By DANNY HAKIM

ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning.

Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled public events for the day. He is set to make an announcement about 2:15 this afternoon at his Manhattan office.

Mr. Spitzer, a first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children.

Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation. Administration officials would not say that this was the ring with which the governor had become involved.