Oakland, California--Citing federal forfeiture laws typically used in drug cases, prosecutors seized $61,171 in cash from a Stanford Law grad they say worked as a call girl. Cristina Schultz, 31, who uses the professional name Brazil and recently married the co-founder of the Ask Jeeves search engine, charged $650 or more an hour for a date. The feds say the cash came from prostitution but have not filed any charges. The IRS says Schultz reported $28,717 in total income from 1997 to 2002. An investigator noted in an affidavit that people who earn so little are usually not abel to "put themselves through Stanford Law, lease a $70,000 Mercedes-Benz for $1,486 a month, live alone in an $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 (found inside a law book in Schultz's trash) and buy money orders totaling $13,500 all at one time." Schultz is fighting the seizure.
Wow...makes you question the validity of that Stanford Law degree!
She could have done a lot more thinking about how she wanted to legitimize her earnings. She apparently did not do that. The marriage to a multi-millionaire does throw a hook into this situation that the Feds probaly did not count on, especially if the multi-millionaire is escentric - such guys could mail their ladies bundles of money in a shoe box and who would know except the lady and them. I am sure that any good lawyer is going to give the Feds hell on the multi-millionaire association and if the Feds were not careful, the woman could probaly not only get back seized assets but also walk away untouched.
Good points. I just can't for the life of me understand why Brazil, a seemingly bright girl with a Stanford Law degree, didn't find a better way of hiding her assets. You pointed out one way--through the multi-millionaire husband.
However, I think the feds have a strong case because you're talking about facts where she only declared a certain amount of income during a several-year period and in that same time was able to make some huge outlays of cash. At the very least she--or, more accurately, the new husband--is gonna end up paying some large chunks of money to the government.
In this day and age, you have to assume that everything is monitored. Brazil didn't make any attempt to hide her face on her website, and of course TER had many stellar and detailed reviews about her intimate service, so she doesn't have a helluva lot to stand on at this point.
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