The mayor, the driver and the mayor’s wife

Hot on the heels of the resignation of New York governor Eliot Spitzer after revelations that he had spent thousands of dollars on a call-girl, another sex scandal is rocking the New York political scene.

A former New Jersey governor, Jim McGreevey (left), had regular threesomes with his wife and driver when he was mayor of the New Jersey town of Woodbridge. McGreevey has confirmed the allegations made by his ex-aide and chauffeur Teddy Pedersen that he, the mayor and the mayor’s wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, used to indulge in weekly threesomes.

Pedersen told the New York Post and New Jersey's Star-Ledger that the sexual trysts began in 1999 when McGreevey was still unmarried. Dubbed 'Friday Night Specials', the trio would start their evening with a "couple of drinks" at a local TGI Fridays bar and end with a "hard-core consensual sex orgy" at McGreevey's home in Woodbridge.

According to Pedersen, the sex sessions continued after the McGreeveys married in 2000, but ended when McGreevey was elected state governor in 2001. The couple are now in the middle of a bitter divorce in which Dina is suing her husband for $600,000 for hiding his homosexuality before and during their marriage.

Pedersen was prompted to come forward after seeing Dina Matos McGreevey on TV criticising the behaviour of Eliot Spitzer. "It's frustrating to hear her call Gov Spitzer a hypocrite when she's out there being as dishonest as anyone could be about her own life," he told the New York Post. "She's framed herself as a victim - yet she was a willing participant. She had complete control over what happened in her relationship."

Matos McGreevey has written a book, Silent Partner, in which she claims she missed the signs that her husband was gay. McGreevey stepped down as governor in 2004 three months after admitting he had had an affair with a male member of his staff - his Homeland Security adviser, Golan Cipel.

And if all that isn’t enough to keep prurient New Yorkers happy, the man who was sworn in on Monday to replace Eliot Spitzer as state governor immediately confessed to having had an extramarital affair. David Paterson and his wife Michelle both told the press that during a rocky period in their marriage some years ago they had affairs.