By . Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 15:13 EST, 6 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:33 EST, 7 August 2013 . A convicted madam running against former . Gov. Eliot Spitzer in the race for New York City comptroller has been . charged with peddling hundreds of powerful painkillers and other . prescription pills. Kristin Davis was arrested after she . was caught on tape exchanging the pills for Ecstasy and cash as the drug . dealer was wearing a wire and working with federal authorities. Prosecutors . made the accusation against Davis while announcing her arrest on . charges of distributing and possessing a controlled substance. Day in court: Kristin Davis is escorted by media while she leaves the Manhattan Federal Court in New York on Tuesday . Bitter pill: In the latest twist to a scandal-hit city campaign season, officials announced the arrest of 38-year-old Kristin Davis, seen here leaving court today . Charged: Kristin Davis leaves the Manhattan Federal Court in New York after being arrested and charged with selling prescription pills for cash . Arrested: Former madam Kristin Davis, seen here in 2009, was arrested for distributing and possessing a controlled substance . Davis, 38, was to appear in court later Tuesday. Her attorney, Daniel Hochheiser, declined comment. The . long-shot Libertarian candidate, who has a previous conviction for . promoting prostitution, has made news by claiming to have gotten call . girls for Spitzer before a prostitution scandal forced him from office. Her . alleged connection to the Spitzer, who resigned from office in 2008 . after his trysts with prostitutes were exposed, has never been proven. Davis . got into the comptroller race before Spitzer, running on a platform to . legalize and tax marijuana as a way to close potential city budget gaps. Other candidates include . Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, also a Democrat, and . Republican John Burnett, a former Wall Street executive. According to a criminal complaint, Davis began buying Xanax, Adderall and Ecstasy from the unidentified drug dealer in 2009. She allegedly told the dealer that 'she provided these drugs to others at house parties,' the complaint says. Political venture: Davis has trailed Spitzer politically ever since he was exposed to have used prostitutes, and she was jailed for promoting prostitution. She ran in the New York gubernatorial race in 2010 (pictured), a move many thought was to keep his transgressions in the press, and now is running against him for Comptroller . In 2011, Davis asked the dealer if he would accept Adderall in exchange for Ecstasy, the complaint says, and they then traded 240 Adderall pills for 120 Ecstasy tablets. Authorities arrested the dealer in December and he agreed as part of guilty plea to record his conversations with Davis, the complaint says. In a recorded meeting on January 7, the cooperator paid Davis $675 in cash for 215 pills, it says. 'Ok, and this one is Ambien. There are 30 of those,' Davis allegedly said on tape. Running mates: It has never been proven that Davis was the madam that Spitzer contacted, but she continues to allege that she was . Authorities also alleged that in April, Davis brokered a deal for another person to sell 180 oxycodone pills to the cooperator. The complaint references a video that shows Davis bringing the person to the dealer's apartment, where the dealer used $3,600 provided by the FBI to make the purchase. The Spitzer campaign declined comment on Tuesday.
Kristin Davis, previously convicted on promoting prostitution charges, was now arrested for drug distribution .
She is currently running to be New York City's next comptroller against Eliot Spitzer, who she claims is her former client .
By . Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 15:13 EST, 6 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 01:33 EST, 7 August 2013 . A convicted madam running against former . Gov. Eliot Spitzer in the race for New York City comptroller has been . charged with peddling hundreds of powerful painkillers and other . prescription pills. Kristin Davis was arrested after she . was caught on tape exchanging the pills for Ecstasy and cash as the drug . dealer was wearing a wire and working with federal authorities. Prosecutors . made the accusation against Davis while announcing her arrest on . charges of distributing and possessing a controlled substance. Day in court: Kristin Davis is escorted by media while she leaves the Manhattan Federal Court in New York on Tuesday . Bitter pill: In the latest twist to a scandal-hit city campaign season, officials announced the arrest of 38-year-old Kristin Davis, seen here leaving court today . Charged: Kristin Davis leaves the Manhattan Federal Court in New York after being arrested and charged with selling prescription pills for cash . Arrested: Former madam Kristin Davis, seen here in 2009, was arrested for distributing and possessing a controlled substance . Davis, 38, was to appear in court later Tuesday. Her attorney, Daniel Hochheiser, declined comment. The . long-shot Libertarian candidate, who has a previous conviction for . promoting prostitution, has made news by claiming to have gotten call . girls for Spitzer before a prostitution scandal forced him from office. Her . alleged connection to the Spitzer, who resigned from office in 2008 . after his trysts with prostitutes were exposed, has never been proven. Davis . got into the comptroller race before Spitzer, running on a platform to . legalize and tax marijuana as a way to close potential city budget gaps. Other candidates include . Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, also a Democrat, and . Republican John Burnett, a former Wall Street executive. According to a criminal complaint, Davis began buying Xanax, Adderall and Ecstasy from the unidentified drug dealer in 2009. She allegedly told the dealer that 'she provided these drugs to others at house parties,' the complaint says. Political venture: Davis has trailed Spitzer politically ever since he was exposed to have used prostitutes, and she was jailed for promoting prostitution. She ran in the New York gubernatorial race in 2010 (pictured), a move many thought was to keep his transgressions in the press, and now is running against him for Comptroller . In 2011, Davis asked the dealer if he would accept Adderall in exchange for Ecstasy, the complaint says, and they then traded 240 Adderall pills for 120 Ecstasy tablets. Authorities arrested the dealer in December and he agreed as part of guilty plea to record his conversations with Davis, the complaint says. In a recorded meeting on January 7, the cooperator paid Davis $675 in cash for 215 pills, it says. 'Ok, and this one is Ambien. There are 30 of those,' Davis allegedly said on tape. Running mates: It has never been proven that Davis was the madam that Spitzer contacted, but she continues to allege that she was . Authorities also alleged that in April, Davis brokered a deal for another person to sell 180 oxycodone pills to the cooperator. The complaint references a video that shows Davis bringing the person to the dealer's apartment, where the dealer used $3,600 provided by the FBI to make the purchase. The Spitzer campaign declined comment on Tuesday.
madam running against former . Gov. Eliot Spitzer in the race for New York City comptroller has Kristin Davis was arrested after she . was caught announcing her arrest on . charges of . alleged connection to the Spitzer, who resigned jailed for promoting prostitution. She ran in the