New York's governor made a rapid and unseemly transition from Eliot Ness to Eliot Mess in March 2008 when he resigned in disgrace after disclosures that he used the services of one or more call girls as recently as this year.
   Aside from the moral issues and the hypocrisy of a former state attorney general being involved in the untoward, he's facing a legal minefield with respect to possible money-laundering done to hide payments to his hotties as well as federal charges related to crossing state lines for immoral purposes.
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   That's right, boys and girls, it's a two-for-one special on Eliot Spitzer scandals. Besides the hookers issue, Spitzer is facing huge potential problems on another front as "Troopergate" has resurfaced.
   Investigators have been trying to make the link between Spitzer and a plot to smear political rival Joe Bruno, New York's senate majority leader. To this point, only some Spitzer aides have taken the hit in the fiasco, in which his enemies tried to neutralize Bruno by accusing him of using state aircraft for politics-related travel.
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