Call Girl Booker Pleads Guilty in Spitzer Prostitution Probe

By Ona Zachary
19:33, May 14th 2008
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The woman who was accused of booking clients for high-priced call girls in a prostitution ring pleaded guilty Wednesday in the federal probe that caused former Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign.

Temeka Rachelle Lewis, 32, was one of the four people charged with running the Emperors Club VIP, the expensive prostitution ring that was closed down earlier this year.

Spitzer resigned as governor in March after the media reported he was a client of the Emperors Club VIP. The FBI secretly recorded conversations between Spitzer and Lewis, in which a Feb.13 tryst was arranged with a prostitute named “Kristen” in Washington.

Spitzer was not charged, but Lewis, a Brooklyn resident, faces up to 25 years in prison when sentenced Aug. 10, according to the Associated Press. However, her term could be reduced depending on federal sentencing guidelines.

The other three defendants in the prostitution case are Mark Brener, 62, of Cliffside Park, N.J.; Tanya Hollander, 36, of Rhinebeck, N.Y.; and Cecil Suwal, 23, who lives with Brener.

Brener, an Israeli immigrant, is charged with running the ring, Hollander, a nutritionist, apparently worked part-time for the ring, while Suwal ran the day-to-day operations, prosecutors said, according to the New York Times.

Lewis did most of the booking for the ring and had several conversations with Spitzer concerning the arrangement of trysts.

Investigators in the case said the prostitution ring made at least $1 million, with a three-diamond prostitute priced at $1,000 per hour, a seven-diamond prostitute priced at about $3,000 and the highest paid $5,500 an hour, authorities said.

It was discovered that Spitzer had spent tens of thousands of dollars on trysts with prostitutes. The former governor and his wife, Silda, are the parents of three teenage daughters.



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