Archive for January 19, 2012

Manhattan Strip Clubs: N.J. Supreme Court: Towns have right to deny strip clubs by sending patrons to …

N.J. Supreme Court: Towns have right to deny strip clubs by sending patrons to other states
Published: Thursday, January 19, 2012, 2:35 PM     Updated: Thursday, January 19, 2012, 2:35 PM
Amanda Brown/The Star-LedgerClub XXXV is shown on Route 35 in Sayreville in a file photo. A New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the availability of strip clubs in other states can be used as part of an argument for keeping them out of New Jersey towns.
TRENTON — The state Supreme Court ruled today that the availability of strip clubs in other states can be used as part of an argument for keeping them out of New Jersey towns.
The high court said its ruling was a “narrow one,” that allows a judge to consider a town’s argument that the business isn’t needed in that town because club owners could locate their businesses or that their clients can find similar businesses in New York and Pennsylvania.

See the full article from “The Star-Ledger – NJ.com”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: The New Black Market: Selling HIV Meds for Cash

Trading life-saving meds for cash highlights the relationship between employment and eligibility requirements for programs such as the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) or HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA), as some HIV-positive individuals have to choose between holding a job and keeping benefits from these types of assistance programs. It also raises the question of how advocates can help people living with HIV better understand their options when receiving health care, so that they won’t feel pressured to partake in illegal activity.
Street sales have been particularly noticeable near uptown subway stations for more than six years, according to Dr. Michael Mowatt-Wynn, the president of Precinct 33’s Community Council. Prescription painkillers are prevalent, but the most popular drugs aren’t addictive and don’t produce any kind of high: HIV antiretroviral medications. …
[...] “I saw a mother with children in tow, no more than 5 or 6 years old,” Mowatt-Wynn says. “She was selling her HIV medicine, saying she needed to get food for her children. So she was basically selling herself. It’s a form of medical prostitution — that’s what we call it.”

See the full article from “TheBody.com”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Ron Jeremy in NY Daily News: ‘Forced Condom Use Is Dirty Politics’

Jeremy said he’s appeared in more than 1,000 films and is completely disease free.
“What will they require next, dental dams and latex gloves? They call it a dental dam because damn if I’d wear one. How do you create an adult film plot, or any kind of fantasy, with stuff like that?,” Jeremy said.
The new ordinance still needs to be signed into law by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
If passed, the industry could see an exodus of porn companies fleeing to other states to shoot.
But, as the Los Angeles Times reported today, porn producers face another hurdle as shooting porn is legal only in California and New Hampshire.
Las Vegas seems like a likely port in the storm because of its close proximity to the L.A. porn hub and Nevada’s prostitution-friendly stance.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Man Convicted Of 3 NY Killings Gets 75 To Life

The hit on the state’s DNA database — 20 years after the first killing — startled Yonkers police who said they had looked at more than 100 potential suspects in the case, but not Acevedo.
“I was ecstatic,” Detective John Geiss, the cold case specialist in Yonkers, said Tuesday after attending the sentencing. He said he hopes eventually “everyone who gets locked up” is required to give up DNA.
“It’s a great tool,” he said. “DNA doesn’t lie.”
Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore said the Acevedo case is “the most compelling example” supporting expansion of the DNA database.
Cuomo has said that since 1996, the database has provided leads to 2,700 convictions while helping free 27 people who were wrongly accused.
Acevedo’s victims were Maria Ramos, 26, and Tawana Hodges, 38, both of the Bronx, and Kimberly Moore, 30, of Greenburgh.
Acevedo was acquitted of three counts of rape. Police had said Ramos and Hodges were prostitutes.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Haywire: Gina Carano Sure Knows How To Fight—But Can She Act?

… Channing Tatum and Gina Carano in Haywire Claudette Barius. © 2011 Five Continents Imports. All rights reserved.
Graham, the soft-spoken, emotionally chilly voyeur played by James Spader in Steven Soderbergh’s 1989 debut Sex, Lies and Videotape, got off on filming women as they revealed their most intimate stories. Over the course of his long, prolific, stylistically diverse career, Soderbergh himself has been known to train a Graham-like gaze on his female subjects, most notably in The Girlfriend Experience (2009), which featured the thinking man’s porn star Sasha Grey as a high-end Manhattan prostitute. For his most recent film, the curiously unengaging action thriller Haywire (Relativity Media), Soderbergh has shifted his focus to the pretty, immobile face of Gina Carano, a mixed martial arts champion making her acting debut as the inscrutable black-ops ninja Mallory Kane.

See the full article from “Slate Magazine”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Meet the New Commanding Officer of the 78th Police Precinct: Captain Michael Ameri

On December 19, 2011, Captain Michael Ameri became the new commanding officer of the 78th Police Precinct.
Captain Ameri was most recently the commanding officer of the Queens Vice Enforcement Division of the Organized Crime Control Bureau, which focuses on prostitution, gambling, untaxed cigarettes and licenses and premises.
He has also served as the commanding officer of the Brooklyn North Narcotics Module. 
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly designated Captain Ameri, who has been a Captain for eight years, to his new post as head of the 78th, which covers ParkSlope, parts of Gowanus and a small sliver of Prospect Heights near Bergen Street and Sixth Avenue, where the station is located (see precinct map).
While being on the force for almost two decades, Ameri has seen a lot of action—he has been serving the NYPD for 18 years—but he is excited about his promotion. 

See the full article from “Patch.com”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Victim talks about Ramrattan being a paid source

The problem for prosecutors is that Eyewitness News has learned Ramrattan did work on several cases as a law enforcement source.
The victim of his set-up talks in a new exclusive interview about what she says she witnessed.
Seemona Sumasar says she clearly remembers the day in 2007 that her then boyfriend, Jerry Ramrattan, took her to the Brooklyn DA’s office.
“He told you he was going to meet his boss,” Wallace said.
“He referred to George as his boss,” Sumasar said.
“George Terra, the head of Investigations for the Brooklyn DA’s office,” Wallace said.
“Yes,” Sumasar said, “He asked for George, signed in, went right in. Like a regular, like he worked there.”
She claims she listened as the investigator and Ramrattan discussed his role as an undercover operative in a prior case the DA prosecuted against the Sweet Cherry strip club in Sunset Park and possible future work.

See the full article from “7Online.com”

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