On the morning Client #9 was trysting in DC with Ashley Alexandra Dupre in exchange for $4,000 an hour, The Washington Post published a guest column by Gov. Eliot Spitzer.  See the Washington Post, February, 14, 2008.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783. html
Spitzer described how the Bush administration prohibited the states from protecting consumers from predatory lending.  I will not repeat what he said, just go read it.

Ameriquest was one of the worst of the predatory lenders, and its owner Roland Arnall made a billion dollars committing tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of frauds and thefts in a predatory lending racketeering enterprise that dwarfs anything that had gone before it.  Ameriquest was sued by the states' attorneys general and he settled for several hundred million dollars.  If you have the time, read the InnerCityPress notes - http://www.innercitypress.org/ameriquest .html

It should also be noted that Arnall gave millions and millions of his stolen dollars to the Republicans.  See the wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Arna ll  In return Bush named Arnall our ambassador to the Netherlands.  After reading Spitzer's article several times, one has to wonder-does this, or does this not, make Bush and his cronies active participants in the predatory lending industry, its chief enablers?  Are they not also criminals just like Arnall was?  Didn't their interference with state enforcement lead to the meltdown of the financial sector?  Was the timing of Spitzer's outing too convenient?  Did Client #9 really screw things up because now no one is paying attention to what he said, and the implications of what he said?  Didn't Bush, personally, cause the meltdown of the economy?