>> Eliot's Mess
>> Published March 14th, 2008 in Articles, Podcasts
>>
http://www.gregpalast.com
>>
>> The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are
>> intimately linked
>>
>> By Greg Palast
>> Reporting for Air America Radio's Clout
>>
>> March 14th, 2008
>>
>> While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an 'escort' $4,300 in
>> a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush's new
>> Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over
>> $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators.
>>
>> Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there's a BIG difference.
>> The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush's man Bernanke was using ...