July 7, 2010
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Officials say the former priest disgruntled over the Catholic church’s treatment towards homosexuals stole $1.3 million over the course of seven years. He’s reported to have spend the cash from church coffers on designer clothes, luxury Manhattan hotels, restaurants and even went so far as to pay Harvard tuition classes for a man he met in Central Park.
Waterbury police Capt. Christopher Corbett read the items parishioners donations paid for and it read like the purchases of a mogul. The 64-year-old stayed at the W Hotel and the Waldorf-Astoria, ate at Tavern on the Green and bought Armani and Brooks Brothers suits, cell phones and laptops.
Court documents also reveal a secret deal Gray allegedly arranged with a cell phone provider that allowed a California company to lease space inside Sacred Heart’s steeple. That deal alone, netted Gray and additional $200,000, which he didn’t disclose to the Archdiocese of Hartford.
In addition to spending lavishly on himself he opened credit card accounts for two men he met. One he met at a male strip club and another via a male escort service.
See the full article from “AHN | All Headline News”
July 7, 2010
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Zhong said he asked Gray several times why Gray was paying him with checks from the Sacred Heart Church bank account instead of Gray’s personal account. Gray said he placed his life savings, including money he had earned from winning big cases as an attorney, into the church’s account.
While police questioned Zhong on June 10, Gray arrived at the apartment. Zhong asked police if he could speak with Gray first. In the presence of the detectives, Zhong asked Gray if he was an attorney, if he had ever attended Georgetown, if he had colon cancer and if he had ever had cancer. To all four questions, Gray answered “No,” the affidavit states.
He admitted to writing himself checks, paying his American Express bills and paying money to Zhong for his rent. He told police he used his American Express card to purchase clothes, dinners, hotel rooms and escort services.
See the full article from “Hartford Courant”
July 7, 2010
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Since May 24, 2003, $655,936.48 worth of checks from church funds were cashed by American Express to pay charges on Father Gray’s account, the affidavit states. Charges between May 2003 and March 2010 included $205,679.78 to restaurants in New York, Boston and Connecticut, including several visits to New York’s Tavern On The Green, Boston’s Legal Seafood and New Haven’s Scoozzi Trattoria and Wine Bar, the affidavit states.
Father Gray also charged nearly $150,000 in stays at high-end hotels in New York City, Boston and New Haven, including frequent stays at The Roosevelt, the W and the Waldorf Astoria in New York, police said.
The affidavit also states that Father Gray opened credit card accounts in the names of Manuel Paque, a man he met at a male strip bar, and Islagar Labrada, a man he met through an escort service — both paid through Father Gray’s account.
See the full article from “Pittsburgh Post Gazette”
July 4, 2010
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Suspected Russian spy Anna Chapman’s interview video here by Special Correspondent July 4, 2010 http://www.weeklyblitz.net/849/suspected-russian-spy-anna-chapmans-interview
Hot topic of the week! Suspected Russian spy Anna Chapman’s interview, which has been shown on a number of sites, is one of the hottest issues for the week.
After the busting of the alleged spy ring, intelligence are keeping close eyes on Russian [especially young females] working in the country. There are hundreds of Russian females working in various ‘Massage Parlor’, ‘Escort Service‘ and ‘Tour Guide Service’ in United States. According to various sources, majority of such workers are illegally staying in the country.
Meanwhile, number of British dailies and tabloids reported on Saturday that during her stay in London, Anna Chapman made numerous attempts to meet Royals. She was seen in several clubs and pubs in London, where members of royal family were regularly attending. Anna was also seen at a party of Prince Albert II of Monaco.
See the full article from “Weekly Blitz”
July 2, 2010
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COLONIE — Authorities say two brothers have been charged with beating and torturing two Vermont sisters in a Colonie motel room over a dispute involving the men’s escort service.
Officials say Friday the sisters from Pawlet, Vt. traveled to New York City in February after seeing an Internet advertisement for jobs in the entertainment business. Police say once there, the sisters realized the jobs were for illegal escort services and left the city.
Police say 31-year-old Colby Sylvain of Bayonne, N.J. and 29-year-old Herby Sylvain of Brooklyn tracked the sisters to an upstate motel, where they beat, tortured and robbed the women.
The brothers were arraigned Monday on charges including assault and unlawful imprisonment and grand larceny. They were sent to jail.
See the full article from “WRGB”
June 24, 2010
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Spitzer is a “john” who solicited and had sex with prostitutes for years while he was attorney general and governor of New York. He also laundered money to avoid getting caught paying the prostitutes’ escort services.
Furthermore, Spitzer broke federal laws in human sex trafficking and the Mann Act when he paid Ashley Dupré to travel to Washington, D.C. to have sex with him. In fact, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said, “on multiple occasions, Mr. Spitzer arranged for women to travel from one state to another state to engage in prostitution.”
However, unlike the owners of the escort services or the prostitutes involved in his case, Spitzer was never charged with a crime. Despite the overwhelming evidence that he was a longtime client of a prostitution ring during the years he was attorney general and governor, Spitzer got off scot-free.
See the full article from “Big Journalism (blog)”
June 14, 2010
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JERSEY CITY — The operator of a North Jersey-based escort service has admitted laundering more than $3 million per year.
Hudson County prosecutors say 44-year-old Joseph Ruis of Jersey City made the money through the prostitution ring and by sometimes providing illegal drugs to clients. He faces up to seven years in prison when he’s sentenced Sept. 17.
Prosecutors say authorities seized several hundred thousand dollars from bank accounts associated with the World Class Party Girls service, which charged customers rates ranging from $500 to $3,500 per hour.
Investigators found credit card bills as high as $20,000 for one session when more than one prostitute and cocaine was involved. And they say some customers had tabs as high as $100,000.
Ruis remains free on $500,000 bail.
– Associated Press
See the full article from “Cherry Hill Courier Post”
June 14, 2010
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So the Queens-bred double-D did what any plastic lady would do when surgical attempts to achieve physical perfection produce the unintended consequence of making her resemble a post-op transsexual.
She filed a lawsuit.
The dame didn’t sue her cute plastic surgeon or the American Mirror Co. for intentionally deluding her. She sued Citibank. For firing her. Because she was “too hot.” She claimed, with a straight face, that her bosses deemed her too sexy to count clients’ money.
Which is like saying Helen Thomas should sue Israel for rendering her unable to perform her professional duties because the country turned her into a blithering idiot.
Today starts Week 3 of the Debrahlee Lorenzana Crisis. In Week 1, the lady attempted to con America into believing she was the victim of her much-exaggerated hottitude — while spreading soft-porn photos of herself like fliers for an escort agency.
See the full article from “New York Post”
June 14, 2010
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The World Class Party Girls website is gone, but when Ruis was busted last July it had images of 40 scantily clad women and listed rates of $500 to $3,500 per hour. It was based on Sherman Avenue off Bowers Street and several call center workers and supervisors were charged, as were some high-fee hookers, Rastogi said.
Rastogi said no johns were charged and those contacted were cooperative and were prepared to testify at trial. Some had tabs as high as $100,000.
A tip to Hoboken police kicked off the one-year probe by county investigators that dismantled the escort service. Police used an undercover officer posing as a potential john and then traced the credit card bill to reveal the structure of the escort service and the players, Rastogi said.
See the full article from “The Jersey Journal – NJ.com”
June 13, 2010
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The investigation was prompted by growing suspicions that some of the security firms are paying the Taliban for not attacking convoys transporting supplies to U.S. and NATO forces along highways where ambushes are common occurrences. Some of the firms are even suspected of paying the Taliban to mount attacks on competing companies.
“We’re funding both sides,” a NATO official told the Times on the condition of anonymity.
Suspicions grew, the Times reported, after two of the largest companies, Watan Risk Management and Compass Security, were banned from escorting NATO convoys between Kabul and Kandahar, following violent confrontations with Afghan civilians. On the day the ban took effect, a NATO caravan was attacked and an Afghan driver and a soldier were killed.
Two weeks later, more than 1,000 trucks were stalled on the highway, unable to advance. The Afghan government then gave Watan and Compass permission to resume escort services.
See the full article from “The New American”