{"id":188012,"date":"2010-12-29T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/29\/cover-up\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T01:05:00","slug":"cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/29\/cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, you have a prosecution of an international prostitution ring, and the prosecution is <a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/article\/20101229\/METRO02\/12290370\/Escort-probe-skips-248-area-code\">prohibiting the defense from examining parts of the &#8220;little black book&#8221; that they seized<\/a>, but not others:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Federal prosecutors are refusing to reveal customers from Oakland County and the 248 area code who hired hookers from a high-priced escort service but are willing to out clients from Detroit, according to federal court records.<\/p>\n<p>The legal tactic was unveiled in records filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit involving the Miami Companions escort service.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Paul DeCailly, the attorney for Miami Companions co-owner Greg Carr, flew to Detroit last week to review the black book. He wanted to see the names of clients from Michigan and Ohio, but the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office said he could see only the names from the 313 and 734 area codes, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There must be something there they don&#8217;t want anybody to see,&#8221; DeCailly said Tuesday. &#8220;In the 248 area code, a lot of influential people live there: musicians, Detroit&#8217;s sports elite, politicians. &#8230; It&#8217;s the center of a lot of activity in the business community.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s pretty much what is going on here.<\/p>\n<p>Would that we lived in a less blatantly corrupt nation. <\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2010\/12\/two-tier.html\">Atrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, you have a prosecution of an international prostitution ring, and the prosecution is prohibiting the defense from examining parts of the &#8220;little black book&#8221; that they seized, but not others: Federal prosecutors are refusing to reveal customers from Oakland County and the 248 area code who hired hookers from a high-priced escort service but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}