Ask Jeeves: Why Was Your Wife (Stanford Law ‘01) Indicted for Tax Evasion on Prostitution Proceeds?
We recently reported on Stanford Law School’s new grading system. Does it involve dollar bills? Or leaving book prizes on bedside tables?
Cristina Warthen (née Cristina Schultz) — aka the Stanford Law Escort, now married to David Warthen, the filthy rich co-founder of Ask Jeeves — is back in the news. From the San Jose Mercury News (via TaxProf Blog):
A Stanford law school graduate suspected of paying off her costly student loans by running a high-priced escort service has now been hit with federal tax evasion charges.In court papers filed Tuesday in San Jose federal court, prosecutors allege that Cristina Warthen failed to pay taxes on more than $133,000 she earned as a prostitute in 2003, jetting off as a call girl for clients in Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York and other cities. The government has charged her with felony tax evasion for failing to pay about $25,000 in federal income taxes.
Warthen’s business as a reputed high-priced hooker was first revealed several years ago, when the federal government searched her then-home in Oakland and seized more than $61,000 in cash suspected to be linked to her escort business. Court papers allege that starting in 2001, Warthen, then Cristina Schultz, used the name “Brazil” and advertised her escort services on a Web site, TouchofBrazil.net.
Brazil. Great beaches. And waxing.
A little bit more, after the jump.
Cristina Schultz’s counsel thinks this is an Al Capone situation:
Brian Getz, Cristina Warthen’s attorney, declined comment on the charges. But he told the Mercury News in 2006 that it was easier for the government to target her for tax fraud than prostitution. “We never conceded she was an escort,” he said then.
But is being an escort really that bad? Here is a hierarchy of whoredom:
Yale = millionaire’s mistress / “kept woman”Stanford / Harvard = high-end escort (e.g., Ashley Alexandra Dupre)
Other top-tier school = regular call girl
Massachusetts School of Law / American Justice School of Law = streetwalker
To quote our very own Kashmir Hill: “Yale Law School. The ultimate aphrodisiac.”
Stanford Law Grad-Call Girl Indicted for Tax Evasion [TaxProf Blog]
Feds: Stanford law school grad failed to pay taxes on prostitution earnings [San Jose Mercury News]
Cristina Warthen / Cristina Schultz [Wikipedia]
Earlier: The Stanford Law Escort: And She Lived Happily Ever After
(38) Comments
Comments
FIRST time poster, long time reader.
yuck,
just your run of the mill Thai dickgirl
THIRD to say no to Sloppy-Stanford-Seconds
Stanford Law School is a wonderful place. Brazil's class also included someone who posed for Playboy (while in law school).
Long time poster, first time reader.
Dear Lat,
Nice post. Not as good as Elie's though.
Sincerely,
Not Elie's mom.
I'm not sure that Massachusetts School of Law grads can be streetwalkers. Being a streetwalker requires the neural capacity to put one foot in front of the other.
First to point out - TRANNY. TTTRANNY.
Law practice vs. prostitution. Are they really so different?
Is that Manny Pacquiao in drag?
Is this what Elie's dad got in trouble for?
wow, those few comments on the original post about this from 2006 read like they're written in some kind of horrible foreign language...the language of a people who do not read ATL.
Missing from Hierarchy:
5 Years at 4 Schools w/ degree from U. Idaho + McCain BJ = VP candidate?
Hawaii Pacific University + North Idaho College + University of Idaho + Matanuska-Susitna College + University of Idaho = TTT + TTT + TTT + TTT + TTT = Sarah Palin
Harvard pays for call girls. That is a very different thing. Stanford produces call girls. Don't know if one is better than the other, but it is an important distinction!
Also, why all the HLS hate as of late?
Horrendous Stanford Law School trolling on this board recently.
You Palin haters are all out to lunch. There's no such thing as a TTT communications degree. It's like a PhD in excellence.
Palin > Biden. Biden had to plagiarize to get through TTT Syracuse Law, and still ranked close to last.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/michael-m-bates/2008/09/18/cnns-blitzer-i-dont-remember-bidens-law-school-plagiarism
Low class rank with polisci + history double major + any JD from anywhere at all (India included) = eleventy billion times better than barely scraping a communications degree out of 5 TTT schools in 6 years.
Damn. I was about to congratulate Elie on his best post ever.
Damn. I was about to congratulate Elie on his best post ever.
who is Elie? pls explain
i went to 4 different schools in 5 years and im currently earning my JD in 8 years can i haz VP?
YO LAT:
PALIN TELSL COURIC SHE BELIEVES IN A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PRIVACY AKA BIRTH CONTROL, BUTT SEX AND DILDOS!
wheres the story!?
Didn't I see this on the first episode of The West Wing?
ASK JEEVES: WHY WON'T LAT FIRE ELIE?
It's a man, baby!
I'm just gonna say this: a high-priced ho' with a JD from Stanford still ain't nothin' but a ho'.
I thought MysTTTal did the post for a minute and was SO impressed.
Then I realized it couldn't be, and quicky scrolled up to see David LaT's name.
24,
She has backed anti-abortion legislation and supports overturning Roe v Wade, so that claim would be in the "total bullshit" category. I bet she likes butt sex and dildos though.
Where'd she go to Undergrad, Harvard?
AmLaw Global 100 PPP numbers are available (with a subscription). Maybe someone would like to share?
This chick really does look like a trannie. Yuck.
We all sell what we have to get what we need. No one is morally superior to a prostitute.
MysTTTal
#25 - Yes, whatever happened to the call girl storyline in WW? (Yes, I know she's now a hospital administrator who must deal with a surly yet brilliant doctor on a daily basis.)
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