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Poor Tanya Hollander. When the 36-year-old holistic health counselor tried to make a little extra money booking illicit rendezvous for the Emperors Club escort service, she had no idea she'd end up tarred for life, thanks to former Governor Eliot Spitzer's penchant for prostitutes. Now even the Buddhists don't want anything to do with her! Catskills paper The Phoenicia Times reports that Nena Thurman, wife of Robert and mother of Uma, unwittingly hired Hollander to help manage the family's New Age retreat center last summer. And Nena doesn't seem inclined to let this particular sentient being escape her nasty karma; she tells the paper, "We’re extremely troubled to learn of her problems only now, and especially troubled that she withheld what’s clearly pertinent information about her background. Clearly, had we been aware, we might have hired someone else."

A woman who worked as a part-time booker for the Emperors Club escort service that former Governor Spitzer used has pleaded guilty to "conspiracy to violate the travel act." Tanya Hollander is hoping to avoid jail time. Unlike another colleague who pleaded guilty, she did not get a cooperation deal from the feds. The Daily News reports that Hollander's lawyer Michael Farkas said "if Spitzer isn't charged he'll argue that Hollander would not have been treated as harshly" if Spitzer weren't involved in the ring, "I believe he at the very least is a potential co-conspirator." Hollander, a holistic health counselor, explained to the judge that she took the job because she needed extra money.

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