Eliot Spitzer certainly got off the hook.

Federal prosecutors said Thursday the former New York governor won’t face criminal charges for patronizing a high-priced prostitution ring.

The U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Michael. J. Garcia, said Thursday that even though investigators found that Spitzer arranged for call girls to travel from one state to another to be his personal companions while he was on state business, there was no evidence he used public money or campaign funds to pay for his entertainment.

Spitzer was a client of the Emperor’s Club VIP – an international prostitution ring to which Spitzer paid $1 million.

“In addition,” Garcia said in a statement, “we have determined that there is insufficient evidence to bring charges against Mr. Spitzer for any offense relating to the withdrawal of funds for, and his payments to, the Emperor’s Club VIP.”

Garcia said Spitzer has cooperated with the investigation, and, since federal authorities typically don’t go after johns, filing criminal charges wouldn’t be in the public interest.

Spitzer resigned as governor in March, two days after The New York Times reported that he had been a customer of the prostitution service that charged as much as $5,500 an hour.

“I acknowledge and accept responsibility for the conduct it disclosed," Spitzer said of the federal investigation. "I resigned my position as governor because I recognized that conduct was unworthy of an elected official … I once again apologize for my actions,” he said in the statement, “and for the pain and disappointment those actions caused my family and the many people who supported me during my career in public life.”

Several people briefed on the case told The New York Times that in recent months, Spitzer’s lawyers made several presentations to prosecutors from the Public Corruption unit in Garcia’s office and their superiors to argue against charges.

The presentations allegedly focused on the defense team’s argument that no campaign money or state funds were involved, that Spitzer didn’t illegally structure the transactions to pay the prostitutes and that charges were not warranted under the federal law which prohibits transporting people across state lines for the purpose of prostitution.