First, we proved conclusively that now-former Bruno employee Roger Stone is behind the email campaign being waged against Eliot Spitzer.

In the same post, we proved that the origin of Stone's list was in an email by Ben Smith of the Politico.

Then, we found out that the email and web campaign contains another shell: a web site, linkedcampaign.com, that is sending out all of the Stone emails. Linkedcampaign.com, like all the Stone web sites, was registered through a private registration service called Domains By Proxy. Wait, here are the headers:

Return-Path: (update@nyfacts.net)
Received: from linkedcampaign.com (linkedcampaign.com [24.199.182.6])

Return-Path: (Stone@StoneZONE.com)
Received: from linkedcampaign.com (linkedcampaign.com [24.199.182.6])

Return-Path: (info@SpitzerFile.com)
Received: from linkedcampaign.com (linkedcampaign.com [24.199.182.6])

Return-Path: (WJMAHONEY@GOP-CLUB.COM)
Received: from linkedcampaign.com (linkedcampaign.com [24.199.182.6])

Linkedcampaign.com redirects to is a ripped copy of a web site for a company called Vertical Response.

Here's the fun part: I cross-posted the post that contained that information on The Albany Project, here. This elicited a response from Vertical Response's Director of Policy, Richard Huffaker.  read more »

The Politicker of the New York Observer is picking up Emailgate.

More From the Sink-Spitzer Campaign

Here is a new graphic sent out to reporters and operatives yesterday, courtesy of the Walter J. Mahoney Republican Club in Buffalo. It’s basically a poster that outlines the Roger Stone argument (and, for that matter, the Michael Caputo argument) that Eliot Spitzer has been distracted by scandal and ineffective, while the state Senate Republicans have tended to pressing matters like fixing the upstate economy.

The distribution list for this piece, apparently, is the same as the one for Caputo's regular anti-Spitzer emails. (Readers who contacted me wondering about why they’re receiving Caputo’s emails also got this one.)

I responded to the address at the bottom of this flier asking for more information and have yet to hear back.

Yeah, do tell. Why are all of these emails going to the same addresses? Michael Caputo denies working for Stone and Bruno - ladies and gentlemen, the evidentiary record suggests otherwise.