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Feds: Search engine bride was tax evading prostitute
The wife of Ask.com co-founder David Warthen is facing felony charges after allegedly failing to pay taxes on more than $133,000 she earned as a high-priced interstate prostitute. Federal court papers filed on Tuesday accuse Cristina Warthen - nee Cristina Schultz - of operating "an escort business, in which she exchanged …
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Thursday 2nd October 2008 21:58 GMT Rob
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Friday 3rd October 2008 00:07 GMT Anonymous Coward
better make it the playmobil version
silly twit; ought to know how to hide money better than that. anyway, how much cash she had at home is NO BUSINESS OF THE FRIKKIN GUBMENT! Next thing you know they'll be checking everyones' bank statements and check passing...oh wait, they already do. Well then, next thing you know they'll be tapping all the phone lines and monitoring the interweb...oh wait, they already do. nice stasi...here's my papers, comrade.
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Friday 3rd October 2008 03:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
Prostitution
What exactly is wrong with being an escort / prostitute?
I understand that not paying taxes is a "bad thing" (but not so morally bad when said taxes are just used to bail out rich government donors) but why the fascination with the fact she did a spot of whoring for cash?
Or is the USA so backward that prostitution is illegal?
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Friday 3rd October 2008 08:59 GMT Marvin the Martian
greedy bitch gives rich folks a bad name.
I can see how you'd begrudge the taxman if you're making say 10 grand a year, who cares for investing in education and roads if you cannot keep the walls of your own hovel up.
But once you're above 20k, zero excuses; above 50k, you have to start considering it's better to pay extra much taxes, to keep the plebs from looting your home!
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Friday 3rd October 2008 11:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
home counties
Recently in a leafy village near where i live in the UK, a six bedroom house was raided on suspicion of being a brothel. It was and various people were arrested.
The way they found out was that the lady running the place HAD PAID TAX on her 200K income.
She declared her services as the usual massage / escort stuff.
Seems you cant win.
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Friday 3rd October 2008 12:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
@Eddie Edwards
"Prostitution is illegal in most civilized countries."
Which would those be? What is described here (putting up an internet page, and making arrangements on your own behalf with an adult who saw the information) would be legal in most of Europe (I think all, but that's a lot of countries these days). There was even some fuss in Germany a couple of years ago about whether people should continue to collect unemployment benefits if they have turned down work as a prostitute, or if prostitution deserves a special status. I'm willing to believe it's illegal in most of northern Africa, but "most" implies well over half, and I'm not even sure it will make 50%. That depends on your definition of "civilized," of course.
Which countries were you thinking of?
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Friday 3rd October 2008 14:49 GMT Rick
@Am I missing something?
"So prostitution is illegal in the US... yet if you make a lot of money out of it, the government wants some? Surely they can't have it both ways..."
It's the old Al Capone tactic. They can't prove, in a court of law, that she was a prostitute but they can prove that she made a lot of money without paying tax. She's (allegedly) guilty of two separate crimes, but since they can only prove one, that's the one they're going for.
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Friday 3rd October 2008 17:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
@ I've always found it odd
Indeed - Makes me wonder how long before someone starts a chain of brothels, instead calling them "Adult Film Studios" and offering people to fund and star in their own flick...
Of course if they were funding they'd need to pay the other Actor/Actresses wages.... and the crew and facility fees too of course....
Might well be a legal alternative to a 'brothel' - it would be harder to go after them without causing problems for the adult film industry...
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Saturday 4th October 2008 21:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: OMG
nternet archive is your friend. You will need to guess some URLs as the pages use java-script navigation so they no longer work directly through the archive.
However, looking at that she should be sued either for false advertising or using the statutes for pimping and running a brothel (with which she as a law graduate should be familiar) with.
There are at least 3 different women on those pictures and I think I have seen one of the pictures somewhere before around the net so she probably is in the frame for copyright violation as well.
Paris, as she does all of that without a law degree and does not try to use other people's pictures to represent her (cough, cough...)
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