If you wondered what Eliot Spitzer is up to these days, he’s building horrible grotesque condo towers in Williamsburg.

The Manhattan district attorney, Cy Vance, has moved to recuse himself from the criminal investigation into (now apparently recanted) allegations that former Governor Eliot Spitzer assaulted a 26-year-old woman he was with at the Plaza Hotel Saturday, the New York Times reports. The investigation has reached a “standstill,” police said.

From prostitution scandals we came and to prostitution scandals we shall return as disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer tries to spin whatever happened this weekend in his $1,000-night Plaza Hotel room.

On Monday, Eliot Spitzer’s lawyer said that the woman who’d accused him of choking her in a room at the Plaza Hotel Saturday had retracted her allegation and apologized in an email he shared with both the New York Times and Manhattan district attorney’s office.

This weekend NYPD officers discovered a bloody scene inside disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer’s hotel room at the famed Plaza Hotel, where the politician allegedly choked his 25-year-old girlfriend. The argument, officials say, may have started because the woman indicated she wanted to end the relationship.

Former governor (and Martin O’Malley donor) Eliot Spitzer is reportedly under investigation by the NYPD after being accused of choking a woman he was with in a room at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel. From the New York Post:

The New York Post knows a broad when it sees one. On Sunday the unprofitable tabloid published photos of Bill de Blasio’s chief spokeswoman, Lis Smith, inviting disgraced New York Governor and married man Eliot Spitzer into her Soho apartment. Very understandably, the paper wants her fired.

Eliot Spitzer is secretly dating Lis Smith, the head spokeswoman of mayor-elect Bill de Blasio (and Spitzer’s former campaign aide during his failed run for New York City comptroller).

Last week Page Six spotted former New York Governor and failed candidate for City comptroller Eliot Spitzer at Avicii’s September 17 album release party at Lavo on East 58th Street. Now, courtesy of an intrepid tipster, we have a photo of what ol’ Spitzy was doing there. Making friends, obviously!

Today the Times got a quick look at the tax returns of Eliot Spitzer, the rich, disgraced former governor of New York who is now running for comptroller of New York City. Following pressure from his main opponent, the Lena Dunham-endorsed Scott Stringer, Spitzer invited a Times reporter to inspect the last two years of his and his wife's tax returns.

Eliot Spitzer doesn't waste any time acknowledging the obvious in a new ad supporting his campaign for New York City Comptroller. "Look, I failed. Big time. I hurt a lot of people," he says, without actually using the words "prostitution ring," "Mann Act," or "skirting my own campaign reform laws on a technicality."

When former governor Eliot Spitzer announced his intention to run for New York City comptroller last week, he told the New York Times, "I’m hopeful there will be forgiveness, I am asking for it."

Five years after his prostitute-induced fall from grace, Eliot Spitzer is back on the campaign trail. This time, he's got his cold, narrow glare set on the New York City Comptroller's office (the comptroller is the manager of the city's pension funds and a bunch of other financial things, depending on how badly you want to use the office to piss off Michael Bloomberg).

Roughly an hour before the midnight deadline, Eliot Spitzer turned in more than 27,000 signatures to the New York City Board of Elections. Spitzer needed 3,750 signatures to qualify for the city's comptroller race.

Despite writing a column for Slate called "Why I Am Voting for Barack Obama," Eliot Spitzer never actually cast a ballot in the last election. A new twist on classic Slate contrarianism from the man who would be comptroller.

The crowd of reporters outside the Lipstick Building yesterday evening crammed close enough to Eliot Spitzer to spot a patch of salt-and-pepper stubble that the disgraced former governor had missed on the underside of his otherwise clean-shaven chin. Spitzer—who stammered a bit when a passerby yelled “ELIOT, YOUR DATE IS HERE!”—was on his way into a “petitioning party” at building’s ground floor restaurant.

Not willing to let Anthony Weiner have all the fun, Eliot Spitzer has announced plans to run for comptroller of New York City.

Eliot Spitzer, who can't keep a job, resigned from Current TV today, effective immediately.

Sputtering rage muppet Keith Olbermann has finally been fired from Al Gore's Current TV, Brian Stelter reports. He spent less than a year at the network, which took him on after he was similarly canned by MSNBC in 2011, and won't make a goodbye statement. In a hilariously bitchy "letter to viewers," Current writes:

Nine months after joining CNN—and six months after Kathleen Parker was dismissed as co-host—governor-cum-broadcaster Eliot Spitzer bid goodbye to viewers tonight after CNN announced earlier that it was canceling In The Arena.