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    Default Feds Seeking $61K From Alleged Call Girl

    This isn't strictly financial advice, but the article gives some insight into some of the ways the IRS can operate.

    >>"My investigation indicates that there is a large discrepancy between the income that Schultz has reported to the IRS and her expenditures and the lifestyle those expenditures have allowed Schultz to become accustomed to," reads a January affidavit filed by IRS-CI Special Agent Anthony Ghio.

    >>"Based on my training and experience, generally people whose adjusted gross income is consistently less than $13,500 a year are not able to put themselves through Stanford Law School, lease a $70,000 Mercedes-Benz for $1,486 a month, live alone in a $1,800-a- month apartment, pay off almost $300,000 in loans, compile savings over $10,000, build a cash hoard of $40,000, throw away $2,400 in cash and buy postal money orders totaling $13,500 all at one time."

    >>Schultz&#039;s April 2003 posting to an escort-reviews Web site indicates her work wasn&#039;t a secret from those who know her. "When I entered the business, I decided to use my face and real stats in my ad," she wrote. "In a month EVERY PERSON in my law school and my parents had discovered my latest career change." <<

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    Default Re:Feds Seeking $61K From Alleged Call Girl

    the fine print of this article confirms many &#039;conclusions&#039; which we have previously discussed ...

    Authorities originally became interested in the girl "Brazil" as the result of a totally unrelated incident - where a different girl was busted for prostitution and dropped "Brazil&#039;s" name. From a club dancer&#039;s standpoint, the same thing could happen as a result of an unrelated incident/investigation involving the club, club customers, or other dancers working at the club which might bring dancers&#039; names to the attention of authorities as a side effect.

    Authorities really aren&#039;t interested in pressing criminal charges against "Brazil" - presumeably because they carry a burden of proof which would be very difficult to meet in the case of an independent escort (different situation than busting club dancers because for escorts everything is 1 on 1 i.e. no corroboration). The probability of successfully pressing criminal prostitution/lewd conduct charges against dancers in clubs is much better, since more than one officer would have participated in the bust and thus could corroborate each other&#039;s testimony.

    Authorities are anxious to use &#039;Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws&#039; to punish "Brazil" for her failure to declare her actual income and failure to pay taxes on that income. Very important point raised by the article is that the gov&#039;t can legally seize "Brazil&#039;s" assets without any conclusive proof of wrongdoing, which effectively places "Brazil" in the position of having to prove her innocence in order to get any of her money back. From a dancer&#039;s standpoint, a similar thing could happen even if the dancer doesn&#039;t happen to have $61K in cash stashed in a safe deposit box. The IRS can project an estimated amount of gross income necessary to allow the dancer to spend the amount of money her financial records show that she does for housing, car, student loans, investments, savings, credit card spending etc. Then based on that estimated income the IRS can back bill the dancer for unpaid taxes due on that estimated income going back at least 3 years. They will undoubtedly do the same thing to "Brazil", probably presenting her with an additional $100K bill for back taxes on top of keeping the $61K from her safe deposit box.

    Authorities used an apparent imbalance between "Brazil&#039;s" reported income and her bank balance + big ticket expenditures for rent, student loans, car lease payments, money order purchases etc. as probable cause to start investigating. This illustrates the scope and ease of access federal, state and local authorities have in regard to a person&#039;s financial records once given a reason to start investigating, which could be just as easily applied to dancers.


    The garbage can searching was unusual. I would speculate that local authorities were looking for a Heidi Fleiss replay, perhaps hoping to discover the names of certain bigwig customers in "Brazil&#039;s" discarded records. The fact that the authorities found $2400 in forgotten cash and some retail purchase receipts were icing on the cake. But the individual investigation of "Brazil" and her garbage can undoubted occurred AFTER authorities had first checked her financial records by &#039;remote control&#039;. Remember authorities need a warrant in order to physically search safety deposit boxes, private apartments and even private garbage cans. To convince a judge to issue such a warrant, they need probable cause. The name dropping by the other girl and the subsequent financial records check were undoubtedly the source of that probable cause.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie link=board=6;threadid=13822;start=msg181608#msg181 608 date=1096156814
    Authorities are anxious to use &#039;Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws&#039; to punish "Brazil" for her failure to declare her actual income and failure to pay taxes on that income. Very important point raised by the article is that the gov&#039;t can legally seize "Brazil&#039;s" assets without any conclusive proof of wrongdoing, which effectively places "Brazil" in the position of having to prove her innocence in order to get any of her money back....

    Remember authorities need a warrant in order to physically search safety deposit boxes, private apartments and even private garbage cans.
    Welcome to the wonderful world of Civil Asset Forfeiture! Freakin&#039; gaping hole shot through the Constitution via the "War On Drugs." Feds have been very careful to only use this one on those who lack the ability to fight back - much like a few of the more egregious provisions of the "Patriot Act," if they started enforcing it across the board and hitting white middle America with it, Congress&#039;d have to repeal the damn thing so fast it&#039;d make your head spin! Although this is not that extreme of a use of it, the law actually allows LE to ask you to open your wallet during a routine traffic stop, seize the $$$, and then walk off without charging you with anything... and if you want your money back, you have to sue in Federal Court in a suit styled "You vs. $$$," wherein you have to prove the money was not the proceeds of illegal activity. Cost about $10K. Counties along I-95, I-10, and other major drug courier routes have been financing their departments off of this s*** for 20 years - predominately through "profile" stops of blacks and hispanics. Anyway, sorry for the rant - just infuriates me!

    As for the rest of this, Melonie&#039;s doing her best to raise a big red flag here for ya&#039;ll, and ya&#039;ll should really take heed - look around and ask yourself "If they came at me, could I offer a plausible explanation?" CYA - once it starts, it&#039;s too late.

    PS - while garbage can go either way re warrant requirements, as a general rule anything outside your house is "fair game" for LE - no warrant required. Between the government and identity theft, the $50 shredders at Office Depot are worth every penny.
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    Default Re:Feds Seeking $61K From Alleged Call Girl

    If I was this chick I would jump on the first flight I found to Europe and just not come back to the US!

    Speaking of, in cases like this, would they take away the investigated person&#039;s passport to prevent flight risk?

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    Default Re:Feds Seeking $61K From Alleged Call Girl

    I would imagine that if the accused was a foreign or dual citizen that the issue of passport seizure could arise. If the accused is a US citizen, it probably would not. After all, if a US citizen skips the country on a major felony charge, it&#039;s a simple matter for the US State Dep&#039;t to request that US citizen be arrested by a co-operative foreign country and returned to the USA. The question then arises whether or not the charge is serious enough for prosecutors to pursue beyond state or US borders, as well as whether or not the charge is serious enough for a person to justify spending the remainder of his life outside the USA.

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    I thought this nonsense had been severly curbed. She&#039;ll never get her money back. It&#039;s gone. Even bringing a complaint to get it back can be difficult. This law is so non-sensical, to get your money back, you file a lawsuit against the money. Yep. If she&#039;s dumb enough to try, and I&#039;m thinking she is, she must file a fed lawsuit Christi vs. $61,000 . And just when this was all starting to make sense...

    The smart Christi, the other one, would follow Katrine&#039;s excellent advice, and blow this popsicle stand before the weak kneed prosecuter grows a pair and realizes she could get a money-laundering charge no problem. And the IRS decides to levy a huge tax bill on her. Forget about the $61K. It&#039;s a WalMart bargain. Sounds like she cleared roughly $500K in 3-4 years. (Even at her rates, she&#039;s been a bizy girl) A $61K tax burden on $500K is fantastic. Get the hell out of Dodge, Christi. But like most Stanford lawyers I&#039;ve known, she shoots herself in the foot to prove a point. Ironically she&#039;s supposedly fighting to legalize prostitution. Now, if prostitution were legal she&#039;d owe another $150K at least. If the IRS ever get&#039;s it&#039;s act together, she be asked to cough up even more. And she&#039;ll have a hard time keeping up her collagen injections in prison. Let&#039;s not forget her well concealed paper trail. And that whole keeping a low profile factor:

    http://touchofbrazil.net/about-brazil.htm

    Degree in atmospheric sciences.... it&#039;s all becoming clear. She studied air....
    (don&#039;t forget the $2400 in the trash)

    OK. Now, get your butt on a plane, raise your rate due to the notoriety, and hustle. $800/hr * 12 hours SF - Paris. She arrives with nearly enough cash to exceed the export reporting limit.

    Note: I just figured out where her taxed income came from -- she has a pay web site. Yet another reason to leave the country. She won&#039;t have to worry about 2257 compliance. Which by the way is nowhere to be found on her site. She could get 2 years for that. RUN WHILE YOU CAN!

    Had to check - she failed the Bar exam. Strike that comment about Stanford lawyers I made above.



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    Her "Modeling Rates" section says to "check back soon"...interesting.

    I heard about this from Adina a little while back. I&#039;m worried about it spilling over to dancers. Yest somehow I&#039;m not as eager to get a JD from Standford as I used to be, either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stant link=board=6;threadid=13822;start=msg183938#msg183 938 date=1096426939
    Had to check - she failed the Bar exam. Strike that comment about Stanford lawyers I made above.
    LOL...she should have taken BAR/BRI!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by VenusGoddess link=board=6;threadid=13822;start=msg184176#msg184 176 date=1096448273
    Quote Originally Posted by stant link=board=6;threadid=13822;start=msg183938#msg183 938 date=1096426939
    Had to check - she failed the Bar exam. Strike that comment about Stanford lawyers I made above.
    LOL...she should have taken BAR/BRI!!

    "Do it once, do it right, never do it again!"

    I almost added that...

    Hell yes she should have taken it. Everyone does. Her opinion of herself is clearly mismatched with reality. I&#039;m starting to think the IRS investigators weren&#039;t in the habit of busting these girls. But when she started thumbing her nose at them, they just decided to take her down. This is a really strange bust for the feds. $62K??? That&#039;s barely more than what a member posted she allegedly owed. I mean with hundreds of sites like hers, why this one. And why use the siezure law? Because they can quickly spank her, no trial, no jail and move on to actual criminals. I think the message here from the IRS is don&#039;t get up in our face. The fact that she&#039;s keeping her website up is pretty in the face of the US attorneys. How do you think an Oakland jury will react to her? Not well. Heidi Fleiss was the same way.

    Something about this really got under my skin. Maybe it was her name....

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    Aha, so she really is from Brazil! Thus she is probably a Brazil national!Sao Paolo has something over 18 million people in it alone, the most populous country in S. America. Its easy to get a forged, crooked passport so she can still travel. Brazilian people are not going to comply with US government so easily, there is so much corruption she can easily pay off a few people and start over. Maybe she can move to England and start her operation over....

    Of course she won&#039;t be able to claim her JD and "atmospheric" degree but I&#039;m sure she will figure something out....

    **Kat plots**

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    Of right. I forgot about the whole German-Brazil connection. She should add this to her bio: "My grandfather was an officer in the Nazi SS that fled Germany after comitting really horrific war crimes. At Christmastime Herr Gandpapa (his pet name) let my cousins and me play with this big box of gold teeth and tooth-fillings he had. I&#039;m now a renowned gold-tooth sensualist."

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