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UGA professor charged with prostitution
Athens Banner-Herald ^ | June 8, 2012 | Erin France

Posted on 06/09/2012 4:29:33 AM PDT by billorites

A University of Georgia professor of German was arrested Thursday afternoon by Gwinnett County police after dressing up as a woman and agreeing to have sex with an undercover officer, according to Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Jake Smith.

Max Roland Reinhart, 65, faces a charge of prostitution after agreeing to give the undercover officer 30 minutes of sexual service for $60. He also is charged with keeping a place of prostitution for renting a room at the Guest House Inn in Norcross, where he and the undercover officer met, Smith said. Contrary to what the charge of keeping a place of prostitution might seem to indicate, Reinhart did not run a brothel, but only sold his services, Smith explained.

Gwinnett County police found Reinhart, a professor in UGA’s Germanic and Slavic Studies department, through a website that regularly advertises escort services.

“Yesterday, detectives located, on a webpage called Backpage.com ... in the transsexual escort section ... a subject named Sasha advertising for Gwinnett,” Smith said.

An undercover officer met Sasha, who later was identified as Reinhart, Smith said.

“He was dressed in a woman’s fishnet body suit,” he said.

Reinhart and the undercover officer came to an agreement to exchange 30 minutes of sexual service for $60.

“After they came to the agreement, that was enough for a charge,” Smith said.

Reinhart was booked into the jail about 12:30 p.m. Thursday and was released on a $4,800 bond at 9:15 p.m.

Reinhart studies German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and teaches classes on German music and literature. He holds the A.G. Steer Professorship in Goethe Studies. Reinhart started teaching at UGA in 1988 and has held tenure since 1994.

Reinhart reported his arrest to UGA’s Office of Legal Affairs late Friday afternoon under the terms of a mandatory university policy, said Tom Jackson, UGA’s vice president for public affairs. The Office of Legal Affairs considers each employee and the charges against them when looking into an arrest, Jackson said. Any criminal investigation does not need to come to a conclusion before UGA enforces a disciplinary action, if one is warranted, according to Jackson.

“We will take appropriate action,” Jackson said. “I wouldn’t want to presuppose anything about this particular case.”

Jackson and other UGA officials found out about Reinhart’s arrest after an Atlanta TV station called the school Thursday. Jackson said this is the first time he can remember a UGA professor being arrested on this kind of charge.

“I doubt we’ve ever had a case like this reported,” he said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Georgia
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1 posted on 06/09/2012 4:29:45 AM PDT by billorites
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Professor's on the right.

2 posted on 06/09/2012 4:35:35 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: billorites

ahhhhh..........academia


3 posted on 06/09/2012 4:38:17 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (B B)
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To: billorites
UGA

I'll take triple entendres for $1000, Alex...

An acronym, a dog and a full body shiver response.

4 posted on 06/09/2012 4:41:15 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over...)
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To: billorites

You think there will be some snickering next time he enters a classroom?


5 posted on 06/09/2012 4:42:58 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

So come up to the lab and see what's on the slab. I see you shiver with antici... pation.


6 posted on 06/09/2012 4:45:56 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: billorites

He said he had an enormous schvanstuker.


7 posted on 06/09/2012 4:47:11 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over...)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Too. Much. Information.


8 posted on 06/09/2012 4:49:31 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: carriage_hill
Too. Much. Information.

... or too quick an access to lines from "Young Frankenstien"

9 posted on 06/09/2012 4:52:48 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over...)
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To: billorites
He was dressed in a woman’s fishnet body suit

Note to self: Don't read threads on UGA early in the morning lest such images be burned into my head for the rst of the day.

Then again, don't read these threads any time of the day.

Obligatory UGA video

10 posted on 06/09/2012 5:01:11 AM PDT by Gamecock (I worked out with a dumbbell yesterday and I feel vigorous!)
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To: billorites

That’s one ugly whatever.


11 posted on 06/09/2012 5:05:23 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: billorites

YUCH!!!!! I didn’t know Helen have any sons with Pelosi.


12 posted on 06/09/2012 5:05:36 AM PDT by JohnD9207 (Mitt better grow a pair or this thing will be over soon.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

LOL!


13 posted on 06/09/2012 5:20:52 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: billorites

She's a MAN baby!

14 posted on 06/09/2012 5:23:52 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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To: billorites
Wait until the first gay president hears about this.

The perv likely will get an invite to the white hut for a private Choom summit.

15 posted on 06/09/2012 5:23:52 AM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the White House)
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To: billorites

I thought Chelsea Clinton broke off all the limbs of the ugly tree. I was wrong.


16 posted on 06/09/2012 5:42:03 AM PDT by albie
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To: billorites

The one on the left is a cutie.....


17 posted on 06/09/2012 5:44:09 AM PDT by Nifster
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We will take appropriate action

Since he/she is a tenured professor the punishment will probably be a one-year paid suspension.

18 posted on 06/09/2012 5:48:14 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: billorites

I’m guessing he’s not a Democrat.

It’s ok when they do it....

Thanks, Bwahney!


19 posted on 06/09/2012 5:48:44 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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Jackson said this is the first time he can remember a UGA professor being arrested on this kind of charge.

What a peculiar sentence. Battling qualifiers render it nonsensical. Did he suddenly recover from amnesia and remember a UGA professor being arrested on this kind of charge? Did he have to sort through memories of all the faculty other than UGA professors being arrested on this kind of charge? Just how many kinds of charges are we talking about here, for which UGA faculty have been arrested?

That weird lawyerism of a blurb begs for further study.

20 posted on 06/09/2012 5:52:35 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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