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Posted on 04/05/2007 8:51:08 PM PDT by SmithL
PENSACOLA, Fla. - The founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" videos defied a federal judge Thursday, calling him a "judge gone wild" and refusing to surrender to U.S. marshals on a contempt citation.
U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak ordered Joe Francis into custody after settlement negotiations soured in a lawsuit brought by seven women who were minors when Francis' company filmed them on Panama City Beach.
The 34-year-old Francis, who makes an estimated $29 million a year through the videos of girls exposing their breasts, drew the contempt order Wednesday after lawyers for the women said Francis threatened them during negotiations.
Francis told The Associated Press late Thursday that Smoak "had lost his mind."
"This judge has gone as far as to call me the devil and an evildoer," he said. "It is a case of a judge gone wild."
Francis' attorneys appealed the order that would send him to jail; the court had not issued an opinion Thursday evening. Smoak denied a request by Francis to stay the order pending the appeal.
Smoak refused requests for comment Thursday.
AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!
Sorry I asked.
My eyes! They burn.....
Sister Anne Marie, Fourth Grade, told us that she rememembered when “boob” meant either “idiot” or “dunce.” And as to your reference to “booty bank” being a female’s bra, we should consider that, as “booty” at one time meant “loot” ot “treasure,” a “booty bank” was where you put your treasure — wherever on one’s person. Booty banks are not to be confused with another slang term, “the family jewels.” I had to explain that one a while back. Not real good at subtlety.
“Training bra” is another hard-to-define-with-a-straight-face term.
bathing suits in the shower. This also helps keep them from looking down on the unemployed
Have any support for your statement that Freepers "look down on the unemployed"?
This refers to their genitalia, bonehead. "Bathing suits... in the shower... looking down..." it all makes sense unless you are looking to be offended like a damned fool liberal...
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The booty dissertation is absurd. Don’t be a dope.
The storm trooper holding the machine gun on little Elian as Elian cried did not look like he hated doing the job. In fact he relished it. He got to dress up in full riot gear.. including all his body armor and black ninja clothes and got to hold a gun on a kid.
Go back and look at the pictures. He was in heaven. He loves any time he can dress up and feel like a storm trooper.
He certainly did a good job of protecting this country from a frightened threat of a child.
LOL
He is the one who needs to be punished, he is the experienced adult making the big money. It is not absolution to the girls to throw the book at him for contempt of court. Nobody ducking US Marshals should get away with that.
Hehehe...
Its the best economic system on Earth, but that is all it is.
Capitalism is good at putting bread on the table. But man does not live by bread alone. Without God evil will prevail with or without capitalism.
His money is in offshore trusts; he has insurance to cover girls who lie about their age, as well as sleazy judges looking for press; he can disappear anytime he wants. He got rich implementing great marketing, filming what sleazy girls do for free all over the country. BFD.
True dat.
Model releases are not required for shots at public events. People at tourist places have cameras. Everyone knows that. Even drunk schoolgirls, who face the lenses.
The guy is an opportunistic slimeball, but so are lawyers and credit card companies, etc..etc.
It's really an easy intellectual exercise:
If you don't want your parents to see them, don't shake them at the camera. it's just not that difficult.
Yeah, I can see where that add's up to prison time. As for Francis, he'll end up in Mexico before he ever goes to jail.
Not this kind. If he were exploiting slave labor or polluting the enviornment to get rich, then he'd be A-OK.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but defying a court order, insulting a Federal judge, and scoffing at the U.S. Marshals does not seem like a winning plan. This guy must think his money will automatically insulate him from legal trouble. He’s a classic case of a sleeze ball who was working a very successful scam until he convinced himself that he can be “king of the world”. His hubris is going to bring him down.
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