Eight months ago Governor Eliot Spitzer was busted for his involvement in a high end prostitution ring. But yesterday it was announced that federal prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against the former governor for his involvement.

After the jump let’s hop in the time machine and revisit this scandal.

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New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is in some hot water as he admits to staff members that he’s been involved with a Brooklyn prostitution ring.

A source that works in the Governor’s offices tells COED, “Spitzer has been linked to a high-end prostitution ring in Brooklyn. He’s going to have a press conference any minute…but I suppose it’s feasible that he steps down from office.”

The New York Times is reporting:

Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation. Administration officials would not say that this was the ring with which the governor had become involved.

But a person with knowledge of the governor’s role said that the person believes the governor is one of the men identified as clients in court papers.

The governor’s travel records show that he was in Washington in mid-February. One of the clients described in court papers arranged to meet with a prostitute who was part of the ring, the Emperors Club VIP on the night of Feb. 13.

Roger Clemens could be the US Federal Penitentiary System’s Penal Baseball League MVP in 2009:

The NY Times is reporting a Congressional committee has taken the first steps toward asking the Department of Justice to launch a criminal investigation into whether Roger Clemens committed perjury during testimony about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, according to three lawyers familiar with the matter.

A draft letter referring Clemens, but not his accuser, Brian McNamee, had been drawn up by staff members for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform by the end of last week, according to two of the lawyers.

“It simply puts informal public pressure on the Department of Justice to take a look at it and respond in some way to Congress’s action,” he said.

In addition, a referral also sends a message about “Congress’s own view as to which testimony seems not plausible to them,” Peterson said. If the committee chooses to refer Clemens’s testimony and not McNamee’s, “that’s a pretty clear statement as to what their views are.” <via NY Times>

The key to this case will be whether or not photos exist of Clemens at a 1998 party hosted by Jose Canseco.