Eliot Spitzer being Investigated

Wow,

This could be big,
given its an election year!

New Yorkers tell me what you think.

The state Republican Party is seeking an investigation into a claim by a former Wall Street executive that Attorney General Eliot Spitzer threatened him in a private conversation.

Spitzer is denying that he made any threats against John Whitehead, the appointed chairman of the state Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

Last week, Whitehead wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal in which he accused Spitzer of having threatened him during a telephone conversation held eight months before.

Whitehead says Spitzer told him he would -- quote -- "pay the price" for publicly criticizing the attorney general's investigation of insurance magnate Maurice Greenberg.

State Republican Party Chairman Stephen Minarik (min-AIR'-ihk) is calling on the Manhattan District Attorney's Office to investigate Whitehead's claim.
Spitzer so far is the only Democratic candidate for governor in 2006.
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