I awoke this morning to discover that Flawless Escorts has been seized by the feds. Google it for more info. Since I was a customer of theirs once - just a few weeks ago - should I now be worried that the feds have my name and info?

Before the FBI breaks down your door and takes a swab of your dick to see where its been the last few months.  

agencies are not such a good idea...

Said agency had some of my info -- though not my name or personal phone.  I'm still waiting for a knock on my door.  Glad I wasn't holding my breath.

Sure now they have your shit. But unless you’re a prominent individual or have a shit load of cash and property, not worry.

What brought LE to their door?

Nevermind... I got off my lazy ass and read the story.

I read the warrant for their arrest and have to say they got them good. They had their bank accounts reviewed, they were able to trace the hotel booking account back to their IP address, and they had a witness too.

A long customer list and they just haven't gotten to you yet.  I think the passage of six years is premature to let down your guard.  You should keep an alibi under your pillow at all times.

Shouldn't they be rounding up all those moose-limb sleeper cells that have been pouring across our borders?

of a digital "paper trail" are just plan stupid and deserve to be culled from the herd.  Hotel accounts and bank accounts used for prostitution shows they don't know what they're doing.  This should be an all-cash business, and if anyone asked me for a CC for a deposit or anything else,  I would run the other way.  

While CL and BP were in full swing it was relatively easy for LE to set up sting operations and snatch up batches of clients and/or providers. It'll be interesting to see if, in the current environment where nearly everything associated with sex work is labeled as "trafficking," agencies become the easiest path to multiple felony arrests, asset forfeiture, and increased federal grant money flowing to local departments.

You can go to a grocery store, pay cash for a couple of American Express gift cards, then use the codes to anonymously pay for just about anything connected to this business, such as placing ads by providers or paying hotel bills.  There is no digital trail back to you unless you volunteer personal information to go with the payment.  (Many members here use this method to pay for their VIP.)  This agency that was busted having a charge account at a hotel for their girls to use when seeing clients is run by morons.  The people that run this should not be allowed to reproduce as it will dumb down the overall human gene pool.  

What? Why debate one criminal activity against another criminal activity?

and possibly recruiting ladies from out of the country?  

Or was there some venture capital involved, or a hedge fund merger? Crowd funding maybe.

The last time I tried the pre-paid CC thing (for TER, an international payment), I picked a card (I don't remember, maybe Visa?) that asked for SSN info, as if I was opening a bank account. I forgot: some cards don't ask for that info. Some cards work without a lot of detailed info for domestic use. So there are ways, just not as simple and straightforward as pulling a card out of your wallet.

Neither of our opinions on the matter, matter in a court of law.

"Don't leave home without it."

Sure, you can debate what the law is...it's why lawyers get paid big bucks by the hour!

This is the GENERAL DISCUSSION BOARD where people discuss things. People freely discuss laws, policies, regulations, enforcement policies, even sports, in a free, open, democratic society. There are even Letters and Opinion pages in hardcopy and electronic newspapers.  
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I was going to add that I stand against the Stamp Tax and Sugar Tax and the Tea Tax. I suppose you'd advise me to shut up,  pay up and obey the law.
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Oops. Wrong Tea Party.

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Who was not full of himself, or one that has never lost a case.

The most controversial tax is the one that no one wants to discuss. That's why some brave soul must step up at some point and say, "Let's get down to the brass tax."

How many tacks would a brass tax tax  
If a brass tax could tax tacks?
A brass tax would tax all the tacks
If a brass tax could tax tacks.  
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Don't blame me. Blame it on this guy:

How  much hood, would a woodchuck fuck, if a woodchuck could fuck hood?