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Opinion: Eliot Spitzer reportedly ready to resign

By Scott Martelle

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Eliot Spitzer has called a news conference for 8:30 a.m. Pacific time during which he reportedly will announce his resignation as governor of New York after being caught up in an alleged high-priced prostitution ring.

Details will be posted as they occur, but looking ahead the obvious question is what sort of legal problems will he face -- and what sort of deal, if any, will he cut to make his exit?

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-- Scott Martelle

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Scott Martelle

Scott Martelle is a former Times staff writer and member of the editorial board. He also is the author of several nonfiction books on such disparate subjects as the Ludlow Massacre and 1913-14 Colorado coalfield war, the history of Detroit, and William Walker, the pre-Civil War American adventurer who for a brief time made himself president of Nicaragua.

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