MSM is certainly asleep at the wheel. Kristen/Ashley, the prostitute who was with Spitzer, isn't the person who brought down Spitzer.
Written by Elma Lia Nascimento
Friday, 14 March 2008
If you believe the New York Post a Brazilian madam had a key role on the fall of New York governor, Eliot Spitzer. Andréia Schwartz, says the New York daily this Thursday, March 13, helped the American authorities to make its case against Spitzer.
Written by Elma Lia Nascimento
Friday, 14 March 2008
If you believe the New York Post a Brazilian madam had a key role on the fall of New York governor, Eliot Spitzer. Andréia Schwartz, says the New York daily this Thursday, March 13, helped the American authorities to make its case against Spitzer.
Schwartz, a 33-year old pretty brunette who was born in the Brazilian southeastern state of Espírito Santo, according to the newspaper, was the confidential source who among other things gave investigators copies of checks made to the Emperors Club as evidence of the governor's tryst. .
Andréia worked as a call girl for the Emperors Club VIP, the escort service used by Spitzer, before becoming herself the owner of a brothel and having her own list of famous johns.
Andréia worked as a call girl for the Emperors Club VIP, the escort service used by Spitzer, before becoming herself the owner of a brothel and having her own list of famous johns.
During her trial, the Brazilian, who was arrested in 2006, admitted she was guilty of prostitution and drug possession, but was able to strike a deal with federal prosecutors lowering considerably the jail term she might have got.
According to the Post, the Brazilian madam was sentenced earlier this year on February 4 but was able to mysteriously remain in the city for all this time even though there an order of deportation to Brazil against her.
Andréia is being expected back in Brazil this Saturday, March 15. On Thursday, March 13, she was taken to the Brazilian consulate in New York by immigration agent to get her papers since her Brazilian passport has expired.
Schwartz was arrested in June 2006 in New York accused of prostitution, possession of drugs and money laundering. According to court records, which came to light at that time, the Brazilian madam told police that she had been a madam for a year and a half, but that she had made about US$ 1.5 million in prostitution since 2001.
She also revealed that her girls charged from US$ 700 to US$ 1500 an hour for a sexual encounter. Threesomes, which involved two girls, started at US$ 2,000 an hour.
The prosecutor also charged her for trying to buy a whole floor of the luxurious Plaza Hotel in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue using illegal money from a group of Italian investors.
Schwartz's lawyer at the time, Andrew Hoffman, in an interview to CBN Radio CBN from Vitória, capital of Espírito Santo, accused the American police of being overzealous, saying that her client had only been involved in some questionable real estate transactions and that she had had no other trouble with the authorities during the almost six years in which she lived legally in the United States.
Apparently the police started an investigation after receiving complaints from her neighbors who felt bothered by the constant visit of men to her place. Policemen posing as clients looking for sex and cocaine visited her apartment.
They arrested her when she showed a catalog with the call girls who worked for her. Three other women were detained with Andréia when she was arrested June 1st, 2006, in her Manhattan apartment.
Her current lawyer, Anthony Lombardino, told reporters that Schwartz was able to strike a deal with prosecutor Artie McConnell, by which she is being allowed to take to Brazil all her belongings plus US$ 150,000. She will lose, however, her Manhattan apartment, worth about US$ 1.2 million plus about US$ 300,000 she had in her bank account.
Notice that this information is in an online Brazilian magazine in Los Angeles and not on the U.S front page of newspapers. And this woman was giving a get out of jail free card in exchange to bring down Spitzer. The real question is that are Clients 1-8 and 10 will be brought down? And how many more prostitutes or individuals involved in the sex sting will be giving a get out of free jail card in exchange for information?
Open thread, folks!
6 comments:
Good post SPB, you are on top of things as usual:D
Yes the sting worked and now the fall out. It wasn't suppose to go this way as the Sex Club is international. Now I bet some of the Billionaires of the Carlyle Group are members and aren't happy with this action. For all those Americans who put Spitzer down I guess he is worse then Craig and Vitters. Oh and Mark Foley molesting kids is no problem for Americans or the Media.
SPB I was thinking. It's good that Christians didn't have Republicans when Abraham was live. Yes he had his first son with his concubine and how would the Christian Religious Family Values Republicans explain that. Yes unlike Evil Americans God did bless Abraham that should tell the US why we're messed up. So much Evil is going around while Americans cheer it on and go broke at the same time the White House is robbing the US Treasury.
As Mr. Gump said Stupid is as Stupid does.
Thanks Prissy!
Jackie,
The hypocritical lawmakers that are criticizing Spitzer for his naughty act are not thinkin of the past Presidents and officials that eithe had affairs, mistresses, or had children out of wedlock. We honor Thomas Jefferson. But, this is the same President that was against slavery but had a black, free slave, and educated mistress, Sally Hemmings and father children with her. So, the ones that are being judgemental (meaning lawmakers) that are tarred and feathered Spitze better make sure that they don't have skeltons in their closets. Those that judge will be judged themselves.
Ambien MSM.
Thank you Jackie for mentioning Abraham.
I think I missed some posts from yesterday. The DC Madam interview was interesting--the it's just a business just like any other business comments were great.
I bet no one has done any biological testing of men who hire prostitutes and their adrenaline levels. There's probably something primal about rich men who work in businesses who need some sort of sense of danger (of being caught) to get their levels higher. These are probably the same type of men who have affairs but affairs to rich men can be costly. A mistress might blab to girlfriends (Monica Lewinsky) but a prostitute won't.
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