Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York confirmed today that he will resign his post sometime before Monday due to his involvement in an international prostitution ring.

The great irony, of course, is that he created laws to bust others who paid for sex. Said Vincent Romano, the defense attorney who represented a man that Spitzer put in jail in 2004:

“It was a big splash. They had the perp walk. He caused a lot of embarrassment to a lot of people in the case to his benefit. What he put their families through at the time, he’s probably experiencing now: the level of embarrassment and ridicule,” Romano said.

“He’s got this overzealous, mean-spirited prosecution, but behind closed doors in another state, he’s doing the identical thing that he’s accusing others of doing,” he added. “And the other irony of it is that you’ve made a career off of a wiretap, and your demise is by the same prosecutorial tool.”

And the great hypocrisy: The New York Post has an aide reporting that Spitzer spent more than $80,000 on hookers over the past 10 years, during which time he was creating said laws.