Here's some irony.
Intuit Inc., should be the big winner in the Emperors Club VIP prostitution-ring bust - that rumors say involves New York's Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer.
That's because late last year, Intuit bought Homestead Technologies, which hosted the Emperors Club brothel website. The site was taken down today. What's left is a link to Homestead - a very good small company with a dynamic leader.
But this is the best part. Back in Feb. 2004, when Spitzer was New York's attorney general, he sued Intuit because its popular Turbo Tax software had a minor glitch that prevented one taxpayer from copping a $200 New York State College tax credit, to which he claimed entitlement.
Intuit paid $15,000 in costs to the state and mailed out notices to NY residents who bought the software.
If rumors are true, you have to wonder what it will cost Spitzer, who is married and the father of three... and apparently the "uncle" to at least one very hot chick.
After all, he screwed a ton of people and major corporations for reasons that looked for the most part to be for purely personal and political gain.
Now, you have to wonder who in NY politics, organized crime or corporate America called in a favor at the US Department of Justice and got this deal done.
And you also have to wonder just how big of a total megalomaniac Spitzer is. Because when you're "holier than thou," you'd better be pretty g-d'd holy.
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