domestic violence case against one of his senior aides who was accused of choking a woman in a twist of fate, then attorney general andrew cuomo was supposed to investigate it. as in cuomo's case, many democratic allies tried to urge patterson to step aside, called the reports disturbing including those in the white house at the time. he did drop out of the race for governor in 2010 but patterson served out the remainder of his term. now, patterson found himself in the governor's mansion in 2008 because his predecessor, eliot spitzer resigned in the wake of his own scandal the ambitious attorney who staked his reputation on being a zealous enforcer of the law became known as client number 9, his political career brought to a sudden halt after federal agents caught him on a wiretap arranging to have a woman travel from new york to washington, d.c. for sex, a violation of federal sex trafficking laws. so to be sure, each of these situations is different, but the theme of powerful men being accused of abusing their