Cecil “Cece” Suwal, the 23-year-old madam of an international prostitution ring run by her boyfriend, a 62-year-old Israeli widower named Mark “Michael” Brener, are at the heart of the scandal that brought down the governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer.
According to local cops in Cliffside Park, New Jersey — right across the Hudson River from New York City — Suwal and Brener ran the Emperors Club, an Internet-based call-girl operation from a high-rise co-op named the Briarcliff.
Cliffside Park police officers said Tuesday Suwal and Brener have lived together at the Briarcliff for about three years. Although the couple stayed off the police radar, a neighbor did call the police once in 2005 after allegedly hearing a female voice crying, “Daddy, please don’t hit me anymore, please daddy, don’t.”
According to the police report, Cliffside Park officers entered the premises, but after they determined that the cries came during role-playing sex, they departed and no charges were filed against them.
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who was allegedly caught on an FBI wiretap arranging a $4,300 meeting with a call girl who worked for Suwal and Brener was one of their repeat customers. According to news reports, Spitzer paid Suwal and Brener more than $80,000 over the years.
Federal prosecutors said in court papers that large part of that money was spent on a “date” with a call-girl named Kristen on February 13, 2008.
But police investigators did not reveal how Suwal, a 2002 graduate of the Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ, came to meet Brener, who immigrated with his wife to the United States from Israel 20 years ago and lived in New Jersey. His wife is now deceased after fighting cancer for several years.
According to Cliffside Park cops, neighbors described Brener and Suwal — a “beautiful” young woman with light skin and dark curly hair — as a couple who were regularly seen together.
Police officers said that neighbors described Suwal and Brener as an unassuming and low-profile couple who avoided attention. While they allegedly made a fortune with their prostitution business, they didn’t live an ostentatious lifestyle.
According to federal prosecutors, between 2004 and 2008, the couple made more than $1 million, which they laundered in bank accounts with the names QAT Consulting Group and QAT International Inc. Brener handled the Emperors Club’s international operations, while Suwal handled criminal enterprise’s daily operations.
Prosecutors said that the young woman controlled the ring’s bank accounts, supervised its booking agents and reviewed applications from call-girls seeking employment.
Federal investigators said the investigation is ongoing and they are depending on many of the ring’s “johns” — including Eliot Spitzer, who resigned his position as governor of the Empire State on Wednesday — to help develop leads in the case.
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.
He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us
Jim Peterson said,
If people think they were criminals, it is too short a hop to say that socalled “Mail Order Bride” site owners are pimps as well. Of course, the difference between prostitution and innocent dating sites is Light Years apart and I wouldn’t mind anyone disagreeing with me on whether this particular behavior should be legal or not.
I do have a huge problem with men being charged for being customers. I insist that the patriarchal privileges NOT be dismantled and recognize that the charging of the male clients is a FEMINIST iniative driven by feminist politics (old Baby Boomer women who don’t want their husbands to stray).
You can bet Spitzer’s feminist wife forced him to be so anti-prostitution all these years. She did not want to lose him to the young hos apparently.
Spitzer was the jackass whose first act as governor of New York State was signing an anti-male law that raised the punishment for being a john from 3 months to one year, punishing MEN for being with a prostitute as opposed to the traditional patriarchal practice of punishing the prostitute alone with a night in jail or a fine.
Meanwhile, Spitzer was helping the feminists by lying about “sex trafficking” statistics and linking it to “sex tourism”…paving the way for a possible new feminist law that will make it a crime for an American man to have paid sex in another country.
Because of his obvious hypocrisy and the law he signed when he became governor, he needs to spend that full one year in jail and not the old 3 months.
This would force his friends in the NY judicial ranks, to declare that men cannot be charged as johns…eliminating a mean, potentially life-ruining gotcha that older women forced men to accept.
The part of the federal Mann Act that punishes a man for transporting a willing adult woman across state or international lines…needs IMO to be overturned as well. The feds need to stay out of all matters relating to sex and domestic violence.
About the role playing: I might go for something like “Please professor, give me an A” but that Daddy stuff gives me the creeps.
March 14, 2008 at 6:56 am
anti armchair generals said,
Early life
Wall grew up in Concord, North Carolina.[2] Her father, Bob, was a hospital administrator and her mother, Trilby, was a homemaker. She was raised as a Methodist/Southern Baptist. Wall graduated in 1980 with a B.A., summa cum laude, from Meredith College. She received a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1984.
Personal life
In 1982, after her second year in law school, Wall married Peter Stamos, who was also a student at Harvard Law school. They separated after 29 days of marriage.[2] She married Eliot Spitzer on October 17, 1987[3] and together
March 14, 2008 at 5:00 pm