14 DAY TRIAL // If Maria Shriver decides to file for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger in the wake of the infidelity scandal, she could get anywhere between $200 and $400 million from him. New reports suggest that Arnold stands to lose even more from the scandal.
Radar Online has confirmed that an official investigation is being launched to determine whether the former Governor of California used taxpayers’ money to fund the illicit affairs or whether he dipped into campaign funds for that.
The investigation, Radar says, comes at the heels of claims made by the former head of security at Sacramento Hyatt Regency, William Taylor, that he would often see Schwarzenegger’s security details bring in female escorts, thus ensuring their privacy.
Taylor says Arnold and his wife would often stay at the hotel – and almost every time, Schwarzenegger would use California Highway Patrol personnel and vehicles to escort the ladies he had coming over behind his wife’s back.
“The Office of the Attorney General, a branch of the Department of Justice, is conducting a preliminary evaluation into the scope of Schwarzenegger’s double life, which allegedly included using his state-funded security details to cover up women being escorted into his hotel room,” Radar says.
A rep for Schwarzenegger has already denied Taylor’s claims, saying there’s absolutely no truth behind them and that the former Governor never used taxpayers’ money to cover his illicit affairs in his 7 years of office.
On the other hand, Taylor, who will undoubtedly be interviewed in the investigation, says he’s not taking back anything he’s said so far: he knows what he saw.
“On three differed occasions after the governor arrived alone at the Hyatt Regency, CHP Dignitary Protection Services arrived in their official vehicles, black Ford Crown Victoria sedans – about one to two hours later with one or two young females,” Taylor says.
“They'd hurriedly escort the women through the service entrance on the second floor parking garage to the elevator that went to the governor’s private wing... the women would usually stay for two to four hours and either leave through the hotel's main entrance or be driven away by the CHP in the same official vehicles,” Taylor adds.
The Attorney General’s office will not comment on the inquiry, but two more sources close to it confirm for the same e-zine that, indeed, Schwarzenegger’s activity in office is being investigated.