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How To Prosecute Eliot Spitzer

Which federal laws might the governor have broken?

Read more of Slate's coverage of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.

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Harlan Protass is a criminal defense lawyer in New York and an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of law, where he teaches about sentencing.

Photograph of Eliot Spitzer with his wife, Silda, by Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images.