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New York and New Jersey in Competition for Dirtiest Governor Sex Scandal

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New York and New Jersey's rivalry has spilled over into sex scandals. New Jersey started the battle way back in 2004. Then-Governor James McGreevey resigned and announced he was a "gay American," who had carried on an affair with a male aide. This month, New York belatedly responded, when Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor amid a prostitution scandal.

New Jersey filed its reply brief. From the New York Post:

A former driver and aide to former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey yesterday made the bombshell claim that Dina Matos McGreevey must have always known her husband was gay - because he was the other man in bed with them.

In an explosive interview with The Post, the McGreeveys' self-professed man in the middle, Teddy Pedersen, gave explicit details of three-way sex romps that he claimed to have had with the now-divorcing duo, starting during their courtship and continuing into the marriage.

Note: when conducting sex scandals, New Yorkers choose the Mayflower Hotel, while Jersey folks opt for drinks at T.G.I.F.'s:

"We called it the Friday Night Special," Pedersen said. The "intense" escapades, he said, usually began with a "couple of drinks" at a local T.G.I. Friday's and culminated in "a hard-core consensual sex orgy" between the three of them at McGreevey's Woodbridge condo.

So as far as nasty sex scandals, we declared a victory for New Jersey -- but then New York filed a petition for rehearing! The Daily News reports that new Governor David Paterson and his wife have both carried on extramarital affairs for years:

In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago.

In the course of several interviews in the past few days, Paterson said he maintained a relationship for two or three years with "a woman other than my wife," beginning in 1999.

As part of that relationship, Paterson said, he and the other woman sometimes stayed at an upper West Side hotel — the Days Inn at Broadway and W. 94th St.

We are unable to name a "Dirtiest Governor Sex Scandal" victor just yet. We are mildly overwhelmed. We wish the McGreeveys, the Spitzers, the Patersons, and "Kristen" would just have one big orgy, to make our news coverage easier.

I WAS MCG AND WIFE'S THREE-WAY SEX STUD: EX-DRIVER [New York Post via Drudge]
Wife of Ex-NJ Gov Denies Threesome Claim [Breitbart.com]
Gov. Paterson admits to sex with other woman for years [The Daily News via Drudge]


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no way, first?

Our little Kash has embraced the imperial We!

If NY Governors are all about the extra-marital relationships, why not become governor of Utah and keep multiple wives? Oh yeah, also FIRST!

actually third... in bed.

That Teddy Pederast story is pretty dirty. I mean, seriously, having sex in Woodbridge? That's so trashy.

I think the McGreevey's take it. A three-some after eating at TGI Friday's is much higher on the nasty scale than an age-old hooker tale. Also, I submit that NY-Spitzer team should lose a few points since Kristen is from Jersey, "down the shore."

10:34,

That's an EXCELLENT point! How can you give NY a credit for shenanigans they would have never accomplished but for a Jersey gal?

10:34: I concur. So ordered.

The Days Inn? Maybe because he's blind he doesn't mind how crappy those places are. Other than that, I don't have an explanation why the Days Inn.

That is a GREAT wedding photo at the Daily News of Gov. Paterson! He looks like he's about to keel-over from drink.

The nice thing about being blind is that you don't have to pay $4000 for a hooker since looks don't matter

Agreed. What's nasty is going to TGI Fridays, a very NJ thing to do.

10:44 - so true - According to the movie Ray they only are interested in wrist size.

Gov. Paterson's wife was pretty attractive, apparently, during her younger years. Not to be cruel, but isn't that sort of a waste?

New Jersey definitely wins. Governor Paterson can't even be sure that he was having an affair; for all we know, it was a romantic prank by his wife, who now is too embarrassed to admit that it was her all along.

Not a waste. To steal from The Daily Show: Patterson isn't Ray Charles blind; he's more Mr. Magoo blind.

These guys are pikers! Had hundreds of affairs during my days in Arkansas.

that days inn is particularly nasty: and reportedly infested w/ bedbugs!

Wait, you mean the fabled NY that everyone on this site compares to mecca is just another overpriced, overrated shit-hole, infested with the same scum you can find anywhere else? That 400sf apartment you rent for $2,000/month is starting to sound silly.

I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next guy who says, " Shenanigans."

Hey 10:36, what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

In today's economy, you dirtbags wouldn't pause from being the middle in a sandwich of a partner and his wife if it saved your precious BIGLAW jobs.

You mean Shenanigans?

NY will win if Jow Bruno is named Gov. and gets nailed for what he's in trouble for already.

Given that Spitzer, McGreevy and Patterson are all lawyers ( I know Gov. Patterson did not pass the bar), how can anyone say that lawyers don't know how to get it on.

Paterson didn't pass the bar?

Hey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

11:49 - epic fail.

Kashmir Hill is the worst name ever.

cheating isn't illegal

Look out, ladies, 11:58 is a WINNER!

Kashmir-
This was HILARIOUS.
Thanks for a great post.

So the guy in New Jersey who had the 3-way with the McGrievances is named "Pedersen," the new governor of NY is named "Paterson," and New Jersey has a town called "Paterson"?

I think there's a little too much linguistic inbreeding in that corner of the country.

12:08: So witty.

Why is Patterson even in the running? Boring heterosexual affair that didn't break any laws, after which he and his wife reconciled-- that's like 75% of married couples in the country.

He should have gone to the Liberty Inn in the Meatpacking District instead of the Days Inn, though. Rates by the hour.

I think Paterson might be getting a reach-around in that picture.

This is the best laugh I've had in a long time.

All of this orgy action and prostitute dirty-sanchezing is so old hat. Doesn't anyone remember the exploites of the glorious Roman emperors? Roman emperors would screw young boys in the ass, make their horses senators and allow their wives to have orgies with legionaires and/or praetorian guardsmen all the time; it was no big deal . . .

"the Days Inn at Broadway and W. 94th St."

In the voice of Cleveland from Family Guy, "That's nasty."

Illinois has some work to do...our Governors just get indicted for fraud...

This would have been a story had it been a Chili's, with that phallic jalapeno sign.

12:49,

Yeah, but your senatorial candidates took Seven of Nine to sex clubs, which beats anything NY could ever come up with.

12:47: pretty, pretty, pretty good

In today's economy, you dirtbags wouldn't pause from being the middle in a sandwich of a partner and his wife if it saved your precious BIGLAW jobs.
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Why would a BigLaw partner have to resort to some ugly, saggy-assed associate to be the meat in he and his wife's three-way sandwich?

No WONDER Bill Clinton moved to New York ... he was seeking some cover.

Littering and . . .

Littering and . . .

Littering and . . .

because ugly, saggy-a'd associates is he favorite meat in he three-way sandwiches.

In today's economy, you dirtbags wouldn't pause from being the middle in a sandwich of a partner and his wife if it saved your precious BIGLAW jobs.
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Doesn't help you when the partner that's ramming you from behind gets de-equitized like everyone else.

. . . smoking the reefer.

Please let's not compare apples to oranges. McGreevey and the replacement NY Governor merely had sex. Eliot Spitzer was engaged in organized crime, did business with organized crime while a Federal and State prosecutor, convicted the competitors of his organized crime associates, violated the Mann Act and engaged in money laundering / banking offenses. Eliot Spitzer's trangressions go far far beyond sexual indiscretion. Spitzer buried a recording of a death threat against a whistle-blower to the Worldcom fraud. What other crimes did Spitzer bury, what other crime families did he protect? Only a Federal Special Prosecutor will be able to uncover the decade long Spitzer reign of prosecutorial corruption.