In 2004, while he was the Attorney General for New York, current Governor Eliot Spitzer oversaw the prosecution of a 16-person prostitution ring based on Staten Island. A 45-year-old Staten Island man was sentenced to two to six years in jail for the ring which Spitzer said ran from 1997 to 2004 and brought in millions of dollars. Now it appears the first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Alban has been caught with his pants down in a prostitution scandal of his own. Spitzer is married with three children.

The New Your Times is naming Governor Spitzer as “client #9″ Emperor’s Club VIP and According to the report by the Times, Spitzer cancelled all public events today after a meeting with his top aides early this afternoon. Spitzer is scheduled to make an announcement Monday afternoon. Spitzer officials wouldn’t immediately comment on the story.

In an interesting political move today, Senator Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy has endorsed Barack Obama, calling him a “man with extraordinary gifts of leadership and character,” a worthy heir to his assassinated brother.

“I feel change in the air,” Kennedy said in remarks salted with scarcely veiled criticism of Obama’s chief rival for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as her husband, the former president.

However, the aging Senator from Massachusetts probably hasn’t seen this video where Obama calls Ted Kennedy “old” and says he needs to get some “backbone” and stand up to the Republicans…

Then again, Ted Kennedy is well known for his binge drinking and philandering and was probably nursing a hangover when he called Obama “Osama” in this video clip…

The question is “Does anybody outside of Massachusetts even give a rip about who Ted Kennedy endorses ?”