NY- The U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan has charged four people, including a Rhinebeck woman, with organizing and managing an international prostitution ring that serviced a wealthy clientele.

According to a press release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s office, Tanya (a.k.a. Tania) Hollander, 36, of Rhinebeck, served as a booking agent for Emperor’s Club VIP, a prostitution service that charged between $1,000 and $5,500 per hour and served clients in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, London and Paris.

“The Emperor’s Club advertised their prostitution services in part through the use of a Web site that included photographs of Emperor’s Club prostitutes’ bodies, with their faces hidden, along with hourly rates for different categories of prostitutes,” the press release said.

The Web site, emperorsclubvip.com, has since been taken down.

U.S. Attorney’s office has also charged Mark Brener of New Jersey, Cecil Suwal of New Jersey, and Temeka Rachelle Lewis of Brooklyn for their involvement in managing the prostitution ring.

Brener, 62, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office, was “the leader of the Emperor’s Club, with ultimate decision-making authority.”

“(Hollander) took requests from clients and coordinated meetings with prostitutes over the telephone, and referred issues relating to payment to Suwal,” the U.S. Attorney’s office said in a prepared statement.

If convicted, the statement says, Hollander faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison on a “count charging conspiracy to violate the federal prostitution statutes.”

In an affidavit signed by FBI agent Kenneth Hosey, Hosey claims he worked with an undercover agent, who made appointments with prostitutes through Emperor’s Club VIP.

Hosey further claims the FBI intercepted telephone calls, text messages and e-mails relating to prostitution to and from Brener, Suwal, Lewis and Hollander.

The U.S. Attorney’s office also alleges that Emperor’s Club VIP conspired to launder more than $1 million in proceeds gained from the prostitution service.

Hollander has not been accused of laundering money, though Brener and Suwal face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for their alleged role in the money laundering conspiracy.

In the aforementioned prepared statement, Michael J. Garcia, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, praised the efforts of the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigative Division in investigating the matter.