I realistically didn't think she would beat the rap by denying, but I thought at least she wouldn't be convicted of racketeering (I'm supposing that's RICO.)

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/15/dc.madam.ap/index.html

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Maybe she should go down on the Judge before sentencing.

"When a man agrees to pay $250 for 90 minutes with a woman, what do most men expect in that time?" prosecutor Daniel Butler asked during closing arguments Monday. "In that context, it's pretty clear. Most men want sex."

I pay my lawyer 250 dollars an hour. And he gets to screw me. I'm really frustrated by these prosecutions. Just like with the Barry Bonds issue in baseball, the basis for prosecution is the high profile gained by the AG's office and the individual prosecutor. What's the over/under on the pub date for Butler's book? We've had terrible crimes committed by members of this administration but they just ignore subpeonas (sp?)but the weight of law enforcement drops like an anvil on a woman who was just trying to help folks put a little sunshine in their lives.

give her?

Unreal

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and out in 4 - 6

I think 4yrs is about right. Didn't Heidi Fleiss get something like 6yrs and was out in about 2 or a little over 2.

she was on trial for taxes and other charges as well as running a service. The service is what they used to color the whole view of the media and jury. If she owned a software company instead they wouldnt have witnesses on the stand to describe how their spread sheets were processed or what ever. Because it was prostitution they went for the morality of it all to lock her up.



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That's a heavy charge. I mean, how is she like John Gotti?

the simple answer is CUZ THEY CAN! and thats it.

She has done it before. But IRS gets to keep her assets.The question is whether she'll get a book/movie deal and be allowed to keep the money. There will be a heavy fine levied at her sentencing.Doing time may be the easiest thing she'll face over the next ten years.

What a tragedy.

One has to do 85% of the sentence

This the secound conviction for her. She previously served jail time for what is in essence the same thing she was convicted of this time.

She took advantage of lots of women in shaky financial situations and expresed shock and surprize at what was go on right under her nose!!!

Uh no. The jury wasnt buying it.
DC juries are liberal in their thinking but I think they were punishing her for the way she treated her girls as much as anything else plus ignoring her tax liability.

In the 90s a DC judge told the DA to (and Im paraphrasing) dont bring solicitation cases to this court when we have open shootouts going on the DC streets. This view hasnt changed that much. Tourng women are aware if they conduct themselves with discreation LE will not make overt harassment a major problem. If you dont, they will do their jobs however.

Her conviction was because of her gall to repeat her past offenses, this time on a much bigger scale, as much as anything else, plus the tax issue.

If she had just paid her taxes, for starters, she could have escaped much of her crisis. One happy guy was the IRS agent in the hall outside the courtroom yesterday who pumped his fist and yelled "Yes!" when the verdicts were read.

I didn't inform myself enough of the woman's actual personality-- and I don't remember the matter that taxes are what started it.  

There's more of a resemblance with John Gotti than I thought.

I try to support people in the business, but when informed, I have no sympathy for somebody like this.

Thank you zinaval for your thoughts. I appreciate them. I, too, try to support or at least never hurt the people in this industry.
In this case however I think she hurt more people than she helped.
A side note, I have it on good authority she was not a nice person to work for on top of everything else.