Remember all that BS about bank transfers and how it they oh so accidently discovered the hooker connection?

From today’s Miami Herald:

Almost four months before Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in a sex scandal, a lawyer for Republican political operative Roger Stone sent a letter to the FBI alleging that Spitzer ”used the services of high-priced call girls” while in Florida.
The letter, dated Nov. 19, said Miami Beach resident Stone learned the information from ”a social contact in an adult-themed club.” It offered one potentially identifying detail: The man in question hadn’t taken off his calf-length black socks “during the sex act.”Stone, known for shutting down the 2000 presidential election recount effort in Miami-Dade County, is a longtime Spitzer nemesis whose political experience ranges from the Nixon White House to Al Sharpton’s presidential campaign. His lawyer wrote the letter containing the call-girl allegations after FBI agents had asked to speak to Stone, though he says the FBI did not specify why he was contacted.

Stone was once a promising aide to Sen Bob Dole who got caught up in his own little sex scandal back in the day:

The Herald continues:

”Mr. Stone respectfully declines to meet with you at this time,” the letter states, before going on to offer ”certain information” about Spitzer.

”The governor has paid literally tens of thousands of dollars for these services. It is Mr. Stone’s understanding that the governor paid not with credit cards or cash but through some pre-arranged transfer,” the letter said.

Read it all <a href=”http://www.miamiherald.com/548/v-print/story/465982.html”> here </a>

Meanwhile Digby, over at Hullabaloo, reminds us just who Roger Stone is:

Stone is, of course, most recently seen all over MSNBC “analyzing” the race and in the pages of the Weekly Standard touting his new anti-Clinton 527 called C.U.N.T.

Old Rog has been around since the Nixon era, pulling this stuff in plain sight. This is one of my all time favorites of his greatest hits, for the sheer scale and catastrophic consequences:

What the world watched was a G.O.P. melee. When Geller walked out of the room with a sample ballot, the crowd accused him of stealing a real one and responded as if he had just nabbed a baby for its organs. Geller says he was pushed by two dozen protesters screaming, “I’m gonna take you down!” Luis Rosero, a Democratic observer, claims he was punched and kicked. Republicans dispute the charges, but video cameras caught scenes of activism that had morphed into menace. The organizers in the RV outside, who G.O.P. protesters have told Time were led by hardball Washington strategist Roger Stone, had phone banks churning out calls to Miami Republicans, urging them to storm downtown. (Stone could not be reached for comment.)

This Spitzer ratfuck was particularly clever because he used his well known reputation as a swinging sex club bon vivant to take down a crusading Democrat.

Well played, Mr Stone…

UPDATE: I am reminded of an odd little story from August when he found that Roger Stone had apparantly made violently abusive phone calls to Elliot Spitzer’s father. (The New York Times Report is <a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/nyregion/22stone.html?hp”> here </a>

This story gets curiouser and curiouser…