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Eliot Spitzer, until very recently known primarily as the disgraced former governor of New York, will formally re-emerge as a regular television personality as the host of new prime-time news discussion program on CNN next fall.

New York - Disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer took another step back into political spotlight Sunday, appearing for a chatty interview at the 92nd Street Y on the upper East Side. The hooker-happy former governor chided Mayor Bloomberg for aggressively defending Wall Street, President Obama's financial team for being too close to CEOs and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for refusing to answer tough questions.

Albany - A previously undisclosed document reveals in new detail today how the state's hooker happy ex-governor, Eliot Spitzer, sowed the seeds of his own downfall with a suspicious bank transaction. The countdown to Spitzer's eventual March 2008 resignation amid charges he had patronized a high-priced prostitute began more than six months earlier when he asked his Manhattan bank to strip his name and account ID from a $5,000 wire transfer to a shell company, The Albany Times Union reported.

Gov. Paterson said his hooker-happy predecessor Eliot Spitzer deserves a shot at a comeback, just like the aides with checkered pasts Paterson prides himself on hiring.

For the first time, Eliot Spitzer is acknowledging in an interview with Fortune what The Post first reported last year -- that he is itching for a way back into politics and, even at this late date, hasn't totally closed the door on a race this year. And for the first time, he is acknowledging what he did to his wife, Silda, who stood by him amid a scandal involving a high-priced call girl that ended his term as governor less than 18 months after it began on a wave of hope and promise. He goes further than he has in the past two years since the scandal broke in taking personal responsibility not just for what he did to the state, but for what he did to his family, in an interview posted just now by Fortune magazine on its website. "I made an egregiously horrendous judgment at every level," he tells Peter Elkind, who has an upcoming book "Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer" that will be excerpted in the next issue of Fortune. "Not just in t...

As he struggles to save his flailing campaign, Gov. Paterson has told people he's taking counsel from the man responsible for him being in charge in the first place -- Eliot Spitzer. Sources said Paterson has conveyed to associates that the disgraced ex-governor -- who stepped down from his office in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal -- has been advising him on how to rescue his flailing administration as he faces a looming Democratic primary challenge from Andrew Cuomo. Sources said the advice has largely gone through an intermediary, instead of direct strategy sessions. Spitzer has his own eye on a comeback at some point and knows that failings by Paterson, whom he chose as his lieutenant governor in the 2006 election, will be hung around his neck. To help his legacy, Spitzer has made a string of suggestions to his successor, the sources said. One source said Spitzer has indicated he might help Paterson raise some desperately need campaign cash, which would remain confidenti...

Beleaguered Gov. Paterson, deflecting rumors of a sex scandal about to be made public, appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" last night to defend his honor and traced his woes to shamed predecessor Eliot Spitzer. "I think this is a carryover from that situation," Paterson said. "I think that's actually victimized me." The governor noted his ascendance to the state's executive office came about "in a rather shocking way a couple of years ago," after Spitzer's resignation in 2008 following a sex scandal. "And I think people have still a sort of sensitivity to that to the point that people would tend to believe anything they hear these days. And that opens the door for these kinds of scurrilous rumors." NY Post