New York’s top Judge served jail time after making threatening phone calls to his former mistress and mailing a condom to her 16-year-old daughter.
 
Perhaps the political figure most comparable to Spitzer is Sol Wachtler, who was chief judge of New York in 1992 when FBI agents arrested him and charged him with stalking his ex-mistress and threatening to kidnap her daughter. He spent time in prison and was disbarred.
 
N.Y.'s Chief Judge, Charged With Blackmail, Resigns : Scandal: Court orders that state's top jurist wear an electronic monitoring device in sex harassment case.
 
The chief judge of New York state, facing charges he blackmailed his former lover, resigned from the bench Tuesday shortly after a federal magistrate ordered him to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and be held under private guard in home detention as part of a bail agreement.

The case not only has caused deep shock within New York's justice system. It also suddenly has deprived the Republican Party of perhaps its strongest potential gubernatorial candidate and, in exposing the alleged secret life of a pillar of the judiciary, focused new attention in New York's tabloids and elsewhere on a high profile case of sexual harassment.