Chicago Massage Parlors: Scott Cohen: Prostitute-Dating, Steroid-Shooting, Pawn-Brokering Nominee Bows Out

Scott Cohen: Prostitute-Dating, Steroid-Shooting, Pawn-Brokering Nominee Bows Out
Mon., Feb. 8 2010 @ 10:03AM
In case you were one of the millions of people watching the Super Bowl last night and didn’t hear the news, Illinois’ Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, Scott Lee Cohen has quit the race.
Cohen made the announcement at a Chicago bar last night during the Super Bowl’s half-time performance — a fitting farewell for a politician whose sleaze factor seems extraordinary even for Illinois politics.
Since winning the Democratic primary last Tuesday to run as his party’s nominee for lieutenant governor, Cohen has been hounded by a 2005 arrest report that he held a knife to a prostitute’s throat. (The prostitute — whom he met at a massage parlor — also happened to be his live-in girlfriend at the time.)

See the full article from “Riverfront Times (blog)”