A New York state judge concluded the politically charged litigation between the New York Senate and former Gov. Eliot Spitzer last week, but not before condemning the parties for their “cavalier” and “shameful” wasting of court time and taxpayer money.

State Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman in Manhattan ordered that the proceedings be discontinued, with prejudice, pursuant to stipulations of discontinuance submitted to the court by the litigants earlier this month.