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...expensive trendy clothing began to flood the market, Takashita has been on a mission to take retail to the highest stratosphere of luxury. His strategy includes offering not only hard-to-find labels but also extreme personal service. Regulars at Restir Midtown can reserve one of two appointment-only vip suites, where they can do everything from sip champagne to host a party while they peruse a selection of the shop's handpicked merchandise, including exclusive looks from Balenciaga and limited-edition Chanel 2.55 handbags (the only ones sold outside Chanel flagships). For the really flush shopper, there is even...
...suitcase in question came into Telpuk's life in the wee hours of a late shift she'd been asked to work as a security officer in Argentina's National Aeronautics Police (PAN), stationed in the VIP section of a Buenos Aires airport. Scanning the luggage of passengers debarking a flight from Venezuela, she noticed one that was densely packed with rectangular shapes. On inspection, they turned out to be bricks of bank-notes amounting to $790,550. "He didn't seem to be particularly nervous," says Telpuk of the bag's owner, Venzuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson...
There are also questions about whether Spitzer could be prosecuted for tax fraud if he "structured" his payments to the Emperors Club VIP through shell companies. "What it's really going to depend on is how the money was paid," Burstein told TIME, adding, "If his name was not Eliot Spitzer, it's virtually inconceivable that there would be any question of prosecution." Still, he put the odds...
...newspaper,” Dershowitz said. Spitzer served as New York State attorney general for eight years and was elected governor in 2007. A wiretap caught Spitzer in Washington, D.C. negotiating a meeting with a “model” named Kristen, an employee of the Emperors Club VIP, an “international prostitution and money-laundering ring,” according to law enforcement authorities. Ironically, in 2004 Spitzer announced the arrest of 16 people operating a prostitution ring in Staten Island and condemned their behavior. Late yesterday afternoon, the Republican leader of the New York State...
After a brief stint schmoozing in the roped-off VIP area, Hilton ascended the DJ booth to praise Boston’s partying abilities...