Cristina Warthen

36-year-old Cristina Warthen turned into a call girl! In order to pay her bills and student loans, Cristina Warthen aka Cristina Schultz a Stanford Law School graduate co-founded Ask.com, sentenced to home detention for tax evasion on Monday. Cristina ran an escort service and offered “companionship” for $2,000 a night. The federal prosecutors have briefed in their report that to advertise her services as a call girl “Brazil,” Cristina Warthen was maintaining a Website called “Touchofbrazil.net,” soon after she got her law degree from Stanford in May 2001. Cristina Warthen used to post maximum erotic pictures of herself in order to arouse sex appeal and attract the ‘clients’ who would contact her directly. Eventually in the year 2003, she pleaded guilty, failing to pay taxes on more than $133,000 ‘income’ as a prostitute. The authorities informed that Christina “engaged in sexual acts in return for money” in the year 2001 and grossed $133,717 in 2003 but failed in paying $25,424, in taxes. In a U.S. District Court in San Jose during a hearing on Monday, Judge James Ware ordered the imposition of one year home detention on Cristina Warthen also known as Cristina Schultz. She is liable to pay $243,000 in back taxes, fines and restitution to the government. To ensure she abides by the restrictions imposed upon her, the services of an electronic monitoring device were also acquired as the punishment includes restriction on her advertising as an escort while on probation. Brain Gets Christina’s attorney, responded to persecution’s recommendations and the final punishment saying, “the entire prosecution was ill-advised and selective.” After all, she sold her services only to pay off her Stanford Law School debts. Whereas the judge concluded to impose restrictions on Christina on disclosure of her continuing advertising on the internet as an expensive escort while she awaited sentencing on charges of federal tax evasion, by the federal prosecutors. Now according to the plea deal with government, she is under 3-year-probation and liable to pay a total of approximately $243,000 to the government. The actual amount was $313,000 but federal prosecutors agreed to $243,000 as Christina couldn’t pay more. She was married to David Warthen who is the co-founder of online search engine Ask Jeeves, now called Ask.com. In 2006, David filed the divorce on grounds “irreconcilable differences.”


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