We didn't believe it until we had read it in the New York Times. But the disgraced New York state governor Eliot Spitzer, who has been bugged by police while arranging to meet a prostitute, appears to have used an alias while on his unofficial business. It is not a name which would have occurred to us - George Fox!
According to the NYT, the room in the Washington hotel where Eliot Spitzer stayed was registered under George Fox's name. Police said he was apparently known by this name to the organisers of the prostitution ring. The real George Fox, a donor to the governor, was startled to be confronted by reporters. 'That's the first I've heard of it', he is reported to have said. Our founder would not have been impressed.

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