Posted on 03/16/2012 7:54:24 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Manhattan prosecutors have secretly arrested at least three key people in Anna Gristina’s alleged escort ring — her accused money launderer and two suspected high-price call girls — and are grilling them for evidence against her, The Post has learned.
Court transcripts and other records, along with sources familiar with the case, indicate that the two alleged prostitutes and a mysterious “laundry man” — identified only as a 68-year-old Russian-American — have met privately with authorities to save their own hides and clinch a case against Gristina and her suspected cohort, Jaynie Mae Baker.
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Unfortunately the investigation will stop at the level of the girls and the booking agent. They never go up the chain to get at the deep money corruption of police and politicians, especially in New York
Prostitution in Manhattan! Shocking! Unless you look in the Village Voice and notice the hundreds of ads for "escort services" and "massages" that run every week.
There has to be much more to this story, and the NY Post knows what it is. They're waiting for the right moment to break it.
Prostitution in NYC is as big a news story as unhealthy streetcart hotdogs.
This is at least about un-reported income probably initiated from a tax audit trigger. It may have turned into other un-reported transfers to outside entities that should be reported such as foreign receivers or political receivers.
The prostitution angle is what sells newspapers. The police are both customers of escorts and enforcers of the law, when they feel like doing either or both.
Better grill them to well done for safety reasons... never know where they’ve been.
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