BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Another woman
Tuesday pleaded guilty to money-laundering conspiracy and to conspiring to run
the prostitution ring in the scandal that brought down former New York Gov.
Eliot Spitzer.
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New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
addresses the media at his office in New York, March 10,
2008.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Cecil Suwal, 23 was claimed as the
manager behind the Emperors Club VIP escort service where clients paid up to
5,500 U.S. dollars an hour.
The plea bargain calls for Suwal, who has no criminal
record, to get between 21 and 27 months in prison.
Her attorney, Alberto Ebanks, suggested that Suwal
was naively led into the business by her 62-year-old boyfriend, Mark Brener, the
escort service's alleged ringleader. She sobbed during the hearing and called
her former business "disgusting."
Spitzer apologized and announced his resignation on
March 12, two days after the case became the top news item in the United States.
Suwal, a former University of Miami student who
graduated from the prestigious Blair Academy in New Jersey, got her job at the
Emperors Club after answering a help-wanted ad.
Suwal is the second woman pleaded guilty in this
scandal. Temeka Lewis, a booking agent for the escort service, pleaded guilty to
similar charges on May 14 and agreed to testify in any further proceedings.
Mark Brener and Tanya Hollander, a nutritionist who
is said to have worked as a part-time booker, have also been in negotiations
with the government.
(Agencies)
NY governor Spitzer steps down amid
call-girl scandal
NEW YORK, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Governor Eliot Spitzer of
New York State resigned Wednesday, two days after news broke that he was a
repeat client of a high-end prostitution ring.
The resignation becomes effective March 17. His deputy,
Lt. Gov. David Paterson, will take over to become the state's first black
governor. Paterson, who lost most of his sight after an infection at the age of
three months, will also be the first legally-blind governor in the United
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NY governor apologizes for linking to
prostitution ring
NEW YORK, March 10 (Xinhua) -- New York State Governor
Eliot Spitzer, who was reportedly involved in an upscale prostitution ring, made
a public apology on Monday to his family and the public.
"I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I
apologize to the public, whom I promised better," for acting "in a way that
violates my obligations to my family, that violates my or any sense of right and
wrong," Spitzer said at a news conference on Monday afternoon. Full story
