No, Spitzer structured his transactions so that they would be UNDER $10000, thus resulting in a SAR, which has nothing to do with the IRS.
Since we are on this subject can someone please tell me again why prostitution is illegal between two consenting adults? I have never used one, but I just don’t understand the rational for making it illegal. The streetwalkers, yep I see the point of them being a nuisance, but what is the problem with a call girl that is discreet and not an eyesore to the community?
Yes, I know it’s been said a million times but legalize, tax and regulate them. Test them for disease and the danger level for them will decrease since they aren’t on the streets. As the old saying goes: “Why is it illegal to charge money for something you can give away for free?”
Since we’re still in GQ, I will provide the factual answer to this: it’s because people are dumb.
Three banned posters in one zombie (or is it two banned posters and a sock?). What’s the record?
Is this true? Of course, escort services are frequently a cover for prostitution, but are they always covers for prostitution? Are there people who use escort services as escorts?
[Question aimed at the Teeming Millions, obviously, not at Dogface.]
Much, much higher than that.
Are there such things, any more, as escorts (i.e., arm candy – persons hired to accompany the customer in public on social occasions, not to provide sexual services)?
I started a thread on this very thing a couple of years ago. The consensus was that this just isn’t very much of a priority for cops, especially in big cities where even the vice-squads have better things to do.
And as anyone who’s watched “The Wire” knows, it’s one thing to say, “I know those folks are up to no good.” It’s a whole other matter to be able to build a strong enough case to prove it in a court of law. As someone up above mentioned, those ads in the back of the alt-weeklies, as titillating as they may be, aren’t offering anything illegal. Just massage, table top showers, “modeling services” and whatnot.
Not to say that the authorities won’t ever go after these places. If the powers that be in city government wanted to go on a moral crusade, or a police chief with a particularly moralistic bent had a beef with them, they’d certainly find a way to make life difficult for the proprietors of escort, massage, and modeling businesses.
There was an escort service here that got busted for abusing credit cards. The girls were slipping extra charges on client’s cards and several reported it to the cops. There was some local news coverage a few years ago.
Otherwise they seem to sail along without any problem. Even have ads in the yellow pages under escort.
I’ve always wondered how the girl would react if some gullible guy actually wanted an escort to attend a symphony concert. 
Are you saying the escort services took credit cards? I didn’t realize that was common.
That’s not nearly as uncommon as you might think. Don’t ask me how I know, but I know.
This falls into the category of “I read this somewhere”, but . . .
Cecil’s parent publication, the Chicago Reader, once ran a story on such a service, and the service was in fact careful to stay within the law. I believe their rule was, neither party could touch the other’s breasts or genitals. There are a lot of guys out there who want bondage or fetish play that stops short of intercourse. And for those guys, it’s safer to use a legal service–safer for the guy, because he doesn’t have to worry about being busted by a cop posing as a prostitute, and safer for the service, because they don’t have to worry about being busted by a cop posing as a john.
So one cannot always assume that escort services are prostitutes.
This reads funnier if you add extraneous scare quotes.
One of her customers was U.S. Sen. David B. Vitter (R-La.), … who still “serves” in the “U.S. Senate”.
Do you think that this thread will have a happy ending?
Well, there were always rumors that such things were fairly common in Hollywood, for (usually) gentlemen who had to appear in public with dates but didn’t necessarily want the general public to know whom they were really dating (for instance, other gentlemen). I can’t imagine Hollywood is the only place where that kind of thing happened, and actually probably more likely to happen elsewhere now. Though I guess the demand has probably dropped off a little bit recently for service academy dances and the like.
Presumably one with an appropriate program.
I knew a woman who briefly worked as an escort and she most definitely did not prostitute herself. She was older than me so this was quite a while ago, 70s maybe, and I can’t say if any of the other girls who worked there didn’t do it. But she merely served as an attractive, classy, well-mannered & well-dressed, ah, escort to accompany upper middle-class gentlemen to social functions. She definitely described it as being a ‘life experience’ and she would occasionally get politely propositioned for more from a client, but like I said she was not the type who would have ever had sex for money. And she wasn’t fired for denying it to clients. She did say however, that if she had wanted to pursue that career it kinda would have had to eventually include that…
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How well did you know this woman? What reason would she have to divulge such information as to what went on behind closed doors between her and her clients? I understand the desire to maintain a pristine image, and the image of being a clean, respectable “courtesan” fits that billing perfectly. But I have a hard time believing any man paid large sums of money to any woman without expecting something.
A woman who probably could have avoided prison by fingering (so to speak) some of the most powerful men in the country hanged herself? How convenient.
Her entire client list is well known to the public. There was no need for her to finger anyone.