Brener's money-laundering, conspiracy, and interstate racketeering could involve one heck of a lot more than johns and whores.
CONNECT THE DOTS The IRS, offshore connections, prostitutes in New York, Washington, Miami, London and Paris, supposedly costing $1,000-$5,500 an hour, paid for with cash, credit card, wire transfers or money orders. That raises enormous questions about money laundering, IRS fraud and evasion of US banking laws. The operation could have been facilitating tax evasion by faking high-priced trysts, then taking a cut and depositing the rest offshore to evade the IRS and US banking laws.......and in Spitzer's case evading FEC rules.
On the surface, emigre Brener ran the $5500-an-hour hooker operation and is the alleged mastermind of the high-end Emperors Club. But Brener was also working another operation---he was certified by the IRS to represent US taxpayers in disputes. He was apparently certified by the IRS AND Brener also worked for the Israeli national tax collection agency.
"Temeka Rachelle Lewis exits Manhattan federal court with her attorney Marc Agnifilo, Wednesday, May 14, 2008, in New York. Lewis is accused of booking clients for a prostitution ring and has pleaded guilty in the federal probe that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer."