from www.mlive.com – Defense attorneys for the Miami Companions escort/alleged prostitution service are still fighting to release the company’s metro Detroit client list.
The Detroit Free Press’ Brian Dickerson offers a reasonable explanation for keeping the list under seal, it’s not just clients listed in the proverbial little black book.
Jan. 6, Detroit Free Press: If the name of the UPS guy who picked up packages from Carr’s Miami office somehow made its way into that database, along with those of men who paid Carr’s employees up to $500 an hour for their services, you can understand why he’d be upset to see himself identified in a federal court exhibit — or the local newspaper — as one of Carr’s “business associates.”
So, yeah, throwing the list out there may have unintended consequences.
On the flip side, of course, there’s a long history of hookers facing the wrath of a judge while a prominent john skates. The most obvious and recent example is Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s now ex-husband, Tom Athans. He walked away with a modest fine while his, ahem, escort had her whole life turned upside down in court.
It would make for a fun news day to learn another Congressman with a diaper fetish or some Chamber of Commerce heavyweight was listed in the black book but that information doesn’t mean the folks at Miami Companions are more or less guilty of anything.
Let’s be brutally honest about why defense attorneys want that list so badly: The defendants must think former clients desperately want to keep their little hobby a secret and maybe have the kind of pull to make this case go away with a neat and tidy plea deal.
What if that happens? For all the hand-wringing sure to follow, will society be in any more peril because Miami Companions received a sweetheart plea deal? Barring some evidence of human trafficking, rape, or underage prostitute, this outfit appears to have brokered consensual, if professional, sex between adults.
This really is more the stuff of bad reality TV than a federal prosecution. And, oh hey, that’s exactly what Miami Companions Laurie Carr dreamed of after a hard day of (allegedly) pimping.
Jan. 6, Detroit News: The madam, Laurie Carr, wrote the e-mail in June 2007 in hopes of persuading TV executives to create a series based on the Miami Companions escort service.
The e-mail, part of which was filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit, identified the rock star as a client and claimed that the lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors took her as a guest to one of President George W. Bush’s State of the Union addresses.
To be fair, a show about a swing club-frequenting madam discussing the lingerie she wore to the 2004 State of the Union (“black stockings, garter belt and matching thong and bra”) sounds less grotesque than Bridalplasty or the one about Hugh Heffner’s sexy hospice nurses.