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Summary
Elliot Spitzer, while governor of New York, made some weird-looking financial transactions which led to the revelation that he was a regular customer of an illegal prositution business and violated the Mann act by hiring a prostitute to meet him in D.C. This led to his resignation.
As any regular viewer of Law & Order can tell you, Law & Order loves to rip its storylines from the headlines. And this sort of scandal is exactly the sort of story which will lead to a disclaimer presented at the beginning of the episode involved, which amounts to: we totally made this up, it’s 100% fictional, we’re so not talking about anything that actually happened. (This is the third most awesome Law & Order disclaimer.)
So, latxcvi and I were talking about Elliot Spitzer and Law & Order, and how sad we are that Jesse L. Martin is leaving the show, and pondering if Spitzer would be the season finale story or the season premiere story. And we told ourselves the awesome following story.
