Fake Ad Company Served as Front for Spitzer-Linked Call Girl Ring
ADOTAS — In a public drama that involves more complicated plot twists, intrigue and moral ironies than a Hitchcock thriller, the Spitzer “situation” now involves (albeit very peripherally) … the online ad industry.
As the country waits for Governor “Mr. Clean” Eliot Spitzer to resign over his connection to a pricey prostitution ring, it turns out that one of the women running the operation also helped operate an online advertising and marketing company called the QAT Consulting Group.
The company was essentially a front for the ring: clients would wire their payments to the QAT Consulting Group or QAT International and Protech Consulting, making it look like their sessions with call girls were actually legitimate business expenses.
Spitzer, or “Client 9,” as he’s known in a 47-page affidavit filed in federal court, allegedly had several conversation with Temeka Rachelle Lewis, 32 — a booking agent for QAT and one of four people charged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan with operating a prostitution ring – in the day leading up to his meeting with a call girl at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The QAT Consulting Group’s Web site claims (among other things) that:
“From financial poiint [sic] view we specialize in all legal ways in arranging suitable and lawful USA offshore structuring both for your business and your private affairs. As our client, you will be protected with ‘attorney- client privilege of information’, as defined and secured by the Law of the United States—your privacy is strictly yours and your business/tax affairs will always remain yours [sic] private matters.
From marketing and promotional point of view we will provide right business connections, assist in promoting your business, and consult you on marketing your products and services.
From design point of view we will assist you in designing your office, website and etc., applying feng shui principles that should enhace [sic] your profit capability.
Our services are comprehensive and hands on. [Ed. note: gee, they sure are!] We combine our business management and financial expertise with the expertise of our highly qualified associates- investment consultants, lawyers, bankers, independent trustees, marketing and promotion specialists, artists and feng shui masters.”
Who did they think they were kidding?
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