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from www.freep.com – A federal judge today sentenced Gregory Carr, the accused mastermind of the Miami Companions sex ring, to 14 months in prison for running a high-priced escort service that charged up to $500 an hour for sex to roughly 30,000 clients nationwide.

The government pushed for a 27-month prison sentence. The defense asked for probation.

U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Tarnow met both sides in the middle, concluding that Carr, 44, was not a violent man, but that he did deserve prison time for running an illegal operation that made millions and put women in potential danger.

“As far as I can tell he was not a thug, or a woman beater, or a man beater, or any kind of beater,” Tarnow said, noting that he had never had a federal prostitution case where no violence was alleged.Still, he told Carr, “you created a situation where that could happen.”

At the sentencing hearing, Carr, a divorced father who now works as a courier in Florida, told the judge that he is a changed man. He said the man who ran Miami Companions — Paul Cutlass, as he was referred to in the business — no longer exists.

“I had two identifies. That person died,” Carr said. “I know what I did was wrong.”

At the sentencing hearing, Assistant U.S.Attorney Jennifer Blackwell pushed for a stiffer sentence, arguing that Carr put women in danger, and made millions doing it.

“The fact that you’re a self-proclaimed nice pimp, a Richard Gere pimp, does not detract from the seriousness of the charge,” Blackwell said. The fact is quite simple. His corporation, his business model, was set up to literally make money off the sweat off womens’ backs.”

Tampa attorney Paul DeCailly, who represented Carr, argued that his client did have a major role in the company’s operations, but that two female co-defendants, including Carr’s ex-wife, were major players who ran the show.

“They all had indispensable roles,” DeCailly told reporters after the sentencing hearing. As for his client’s prison sentence, he said “I felt it was fair”

Inside the courtroom were 17 supporters for Carr, including his friends, parents and various family members.

“I’m a nervous wreck,” his father, Leonard Carr, who lives in Florida, said after the hearing. “The last two years of our lives have been stressful.”

He added: “He’s the best son in the world, never a dull moment.”

Also in the courtroom was Carr’s live-in girlfriend, Fabiola Contreras, a former call girl who quit the business to date the boss. She had a court hearing today as well as she pleaded guilty to her role in the case.

Contreras, a former Miami Companions escort known as Antonellas, pleaded guilty to helping hire illegal immigrants to work for Miami Companions. She faces up to 6 months in prison.

Carr and Contreras were among five people arrested last summer when federal agents busted the agency in metro Detroit. All five people entered into plea agreements, including Carr’s ex-wife Laurie Carr, whom he ran the agency with for nearly a decade.

Laurie Carr, who is still awaiting sentencing, is facing 12 months in prison.

Another defendant, Nayubet Swaso, a former porn star and call girl who was the operations manager at call centers in Panama and Costa Rica, was sentenced May 6. Swaso escaped a prison sentence when Tarnow concluded that prison was not the right place for Swaso, who had twice been abandoned as a child. Instead, Tarnow gave her two-years of supervised release, and wished her luck.