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Show World&Mation Page 10 Monday, March 17, 2008 Spitzer comes forward about involvement in $5,500 an hour prostitution ring was named, but the 47-page Spitzer's secrets began to NEW YORK (AP)-Eliot document detailed dealings unravel last year when banks Spitzer finally had to tell with 10 of them — identified tipped Internal Revenue someone his secret. only as Clients 1 through 10. Service agents to something It was last Sunday mornstrange going on with his On pages 26 through 31, ing, and he had just spent five accounts, authorities said. His "Client 9" who law enforcehours driving through a fierce money transfers were setting ment officials say is Spitzer storm to his family and his off all sorts of red flags. was described as being caught Fifth Avenue apartment. on a wiretap Feb. 12 and Feb. The case was referred last Until then, the law-andfall to federal prosecutors, who 13, ordering a tryst with a order New York governor prostitute at Washington's came to believe that Spitzer had not dropped a hint of the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel. may have spent tens of thoubombshell that was about sands of dollars transferring "Yup. Same as in the past, to force him from office, PROTESTS I N TIBET spread into three neighboring provinces as Tibetans defied a Chinese government money between accounts to no question about it," Client not a strained word during crackdown, while the Dalai Lama declared what he called the "cultural genocide" taking place. AP photo public appearances Friday in pay for prostitutes, according 9 told a booking agent when to a law enforcement official asked if he had sent cash to Manhattan or glad-handing the same place as he did in the the media at a Saturday dinner who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the senpast, the court papers say. in Washington. sitivity of the case. When told he would be But shortly after entering meeting the prostitute known The first public hint his luxurious high-rise buildas "Kristen" Client 9 said: of Spitzer's downfall was ing a little after noon, Spitzer dropped in a federal court in "Great, OK. wonderful." faced his wife of two decades, Manhattan on March 6. Four "An American petite, very Silda, and he had to tell her: armed police tried to stop Meanwhile, police in TONGREN. China (AP) people were charged with pretty brunette. 5 feet 5 inches The "Mr. Clean" ex-prosecutor Tibetan monks from protestthe Tibetan capital, Lhasa, - Protests spread from Tibet running a prostitution and and 105 pounds," the agent, known for fighting corruption ing, according to a witness searched buildings as a into three neighboring provmoney-laundering ring called Temeka Rachelle Lewis, told and taking the moral high who refused to give his name. ground was going to be outed Monday deadline loomed inces Sunday as Tibetans Emperors Club VIP. Client 9, according to the affiThe witness said a policedefied a Chinese government • for people who took part in a davit. as a client of a $5,500-an-hour It was clear this was more violent anti-Chinese uprising man had been killed and three prostitution ring. crackdown, while the Dalai Court papers said he paid her than a run-of-the-mill prostilast week to surrender or face or four police vans had been Lama decried what he called $4,300 in cash, and the next tution bust. The prosecutors After a few hours alone, severe punishment. set on fire. Eight bodies were the "cultural genocide" taking morning Spitzer left the hotel assigned to the case were they broke the news to their brought to a nearby monastery three teenage daughters. place in his homeland. Tibet's governor Champa for Capitol Hill. He did an headed by the U.S. attorney's while others reported that up Phuntsok said Monday that Demonstrations widened early interview on CNBC and public corruption unit, which A day later, the scandal to 30 protesters had been shot, 13 civilians were killed and to Tibetan communities in testified before Congress about generally looks at cases involvwent public. Two days after according to activist groups dozens were wounded in vioSichuan, Qinghai and Gansu a crisis in the bond insurance ing elected officials. None of that, his career would be offithe Tibetan Center for Human lence that broke out in Lhasa provinces, forcing authorities market. the prostitution rings clients cially finished. Rights and Democracy and on Friday. China's state media to mobilize security forces the London-based Free Tibet across a broad expanse of west- said earlier that 10 civilians Campaign. The claims could were killed. ern China. not be confirmed. Speaking from India, the In Qinghai province, riot Dalai Lama, the spiritual Sunday's demonstrations police sent to prevent protests leader of Tibetans, called for follow nearly a week of proset off tensions when they an international investigation tests in Lhasa that escalated took up positions outside a into violence Friday, with monastery in Tongren. Dozens into China's crackdown on demonstrators in Lhasa, which Tibetans attacking Chinese of monks, defying a direchis exiled government claims and torching their shops, in tive not to gather in groups, left 80 people dead. the longest and fiercest chalmarched to a hill where they lenge to Chinese rule in nearly set off fireworks and burned "Whether intentionally or two decades. incense in what one monk said unintentionally, some kind was a protest, according to an of cultural genocide is takComplicating Beijing's task, Associated Press reporter at ing place," the Dalai Lama the spreading protests fall two the scene. said, referring to an influx weeks before China's celebraof Chinese migration into tions for the Beijing Olympics In a sign that authorities Tibetan areas and restrictions kick off with the start of the were preparing for trouble, on Buddhist practices politorch relay, which will pass AP and other foreign journalcies that have generated deep through Tibet. ists were ordered out of the resentment among Tibetans. Tibetan parts of Gansu and Though many were small Qinghai provinces by police in scale, the widening Tibetan Tensions also boiled over who told them it was for their protests are forcing Beijing to outside the county seat of Aba "safety." N E W YORK GOVERNOR ELIOT SPITZER exits his Fifth Avenue residence with his wife Silda. Spitzer pursue suppression. in Sichuan province when Protest from Tibet spreads into neighboring provinces announced that he would resign effective March 17 after he was linked to a prostitution ring. AP photo We Fit Your Needs Divvying up the delegates Sen. Barack Obama still leads in the delegate count, with 1,602 to 1,497 for Sen. 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