He got QAT!!!!!

I never much liked prosecutors. What kind of person wants to spend their life seeking punishment of others?

The word 'prosecute' sounds almost like 'persecute,' and sometimes the activity is like it, too. You have to question what motivates someone to focus on this aspect of life--other people's failings. Is it a kind of OCD? Everything must be clean-clean-clean? Anger, maybe? Vengeance?

The prosecutor belongs to an unfortunate archetype. Prosecutors are the heroes of victims, and victimhood, although in the fact unavoidable, is pretty unhealthy to maintain as a self image.

Prosecutors are the enemies of the rule-breakers, and the more they pursue their prey, the more Trickster looks like a pretty good guy or gal, a folk anti-hero.

Eliot Spitzer got elected because he was clean-clean-clean. He even looks well scrubbed. He was the Magic Eraser for the State of New York, capable of rubbing out those stubborn heel marks, etc.

Oh, but except for one little detail: Participating in a stupidly named, high-end call-girl ring. (Why do these businesses all have names as lame as your average two-guys limousine service?) He got QAT!!!!!

For the Wall Street crowd he persec--, er, I mean, prosecuted, this is rich. Now Eliot Spitzer is Inspector Javert to their Jean Valjean; Marshall Sam Gerard to their Dr. Richard Kimball.

Bad things happen to overzealous prosecutors, in real life as in story.

"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before the fall."