XXX Mogul Evan Loewenstein faces charges and could get ten years for running a prostitution ring. http://adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=10286. Last month a SWAT team came knocking at his door.
From the files 5/26/2005: Houston- "All they had to do was knock," said Richard Kuniansky, Loewenstein's attorney.
He says Houston SWAT officers who stormed his client's house to serve a search warrant, destroyed the front door, a side door and an elevator door, among other things.
"The damage was absolutely unnecessary," says Kuniansky. "If he was willing to open a safe for them, in which they found a $1,080,000 in cashiers checks, certainly he would have opened an elevator shaft door in which they found nothing."
Evan Loewenstein is out on bond, accused of running a prostitution ring from a couple of spas.
But HPD tells us its SWAT officers went by the book.
"The officers had reason to believe there were weapons in the house," says HPD Capt. Dwayne Ready. "It was out of a concern for their own safety as well as the possible destruction of evidence that they decided to make the entrance they did."
Lowenstein lives in a luxury home in West Houston.
Loewenstein faces a more immediate problem than his house -- his money. Investigators seized more than a million dollars and froze two dozen bank accounts. Prosecutors tell us evidence will show the money was made illegally.
Kuniansky calls it unfair and unconstitutional.
In an emergency motion, Loewenstein is asking for reasonable living expenses and money "...to buy groceries to feed... his two sons (ages 2 and 13) and to retain the attorney of his choice to defend against these allegations."
Until a judge rules on that, Kuniansky is working for free and Loewenstein is selling a piano and weightlifting equipment to get by.
