Disgraced love guv Eliot Spitzer may be sticking around one more day.
Albany sources tell The Post that it doesn’t appear the hooker-happy first-term governor will step down today.
“I’ve seen reports that the governor’s resignation is imminent. That is not true,” Spitzer senior advisor and legal mentor Lloyd Constantine said.
Asked if Spitzer was gearing up to resign as soon as tomorrow, Constantine responded, “I think I learned in life that the best thing is simply to focus on the present and those reports of the governor’s resignation being imminent are not true.”
Even the man likely destined to succeed him is in the dark as to when, or if, the governor will step down.
Lt. Gov. David Paterson told reporters today that he hadn’t heard from Spitzer since yesterday, when news surfaced that the governor patronized upscale prostitutes.
“The governor called me yesterday, he said he didn’t resign for a number of reasons, and he didn’t go into the reasons, and that’s the last I’ve heard from him,” Paterson said outside his office Albany.
“No one has talked to me about his resignation and no one has talked to me about a transition,” Paterson said, according to nytimes.com
Spitzer remained holed up in his Fifth Avenue mansion today as speculation mounted that he’ll resign after working out a deal with law-enforcement authorities.
Republicans today said they will move to impeach Spitzer if he does not resign within 48 hours, a spokesman for Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco told Reuters.
Investigators came upon Spitzer’s use of prostitutes, which dates back at least six years, after the IRS noticed some irregularities in a nonpersonal bank account that appeared to have some political or governmental link, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
IRS agents then called in the FBI, whose investigators quickly determined the account was owned, operated and signed by Spitzer, according to the sources.
The investigators at first speculated they might find evidence of campaign-law violation and were as surprised as anyone to learn they had stumbled into a prostitution probe.
The investigation determined that several thousands of dollars from the account were winding up at QAT – an alleged shell company of Emperors Club VIP, the sources said. Last Thursday, Emperors Club – which was based out of an apartment in Cliffside Park, NJ, and allegedly made a profit of at least $1 million over four years – was busted by federal agents
The complaint said Spitzer, who was referred to as “Client 9” in indictment, was a regular client of Emperors, an upscale escort service that offered well-heeled johns “expensive fashion models, pageant winners and exquisite students” for up to $5,500 an hour.
The governor was caught on an FBI wiretap making arrangements to have a “very pretty brunette” delivered to his Washington hotel room in the late evening of Feb. 13. His official reason for being in Washington was to testify the next day before a congressional subcommittee.