Advice from Retired Lawyer
So with the BEG operation completed I know everyone is freaking out. Retired lawyer here to give you some tips. Do not take this as official legal advice if you are really worried you should talk to your own lawyer.
1. In order to effectively prosecute you they need to prove you paid for a sex act. This cannot be "implied" by the fact you visited an attractive young lady for one hour. It cannot be "assumed" from the fact that you wanted to see someone pretty. They need a video recording or text message or email or something tying your payment to an overt sex act. Otherwise you were just paying for time and there is nothing wrong with that. Anything that may have happened during that time was between two consenting adults and in no way connected to any payment. Where BEG fucked up (among other things) was sending out a text with a menu related to payment. Where the clients fucked up is admitting to LE that any monies they gave were connected to a sex act. You should never send a text message which refers to any sex act in any form and neither should they.
2. If by some chance LE comes to talk to you the only thing you should say is "lawyer. " If they tell you that you don't need a lawyer yet because you aren't detained then say thank you very much I don't feel like talking to you. If you try to leave and they don't detain you that means they don't have enough info to detain you. If they don't have enough info to detain Why in the hell would you give them that information by talking to them. If they try to interview you they only words out of your mouth should be "am I being detained. " If the answer is no say you have nothing to say. If they say it would be better for you if you talked to them you are an idiot if you believe that to be true. You have virtually nothing to gain and everything to lose by talking to them voluntarily.
3. If you are detained the only word out of your mouth should be "lawyer." If they say they have witnesses implicating you then your response should be "lawyer." They are allowed to lie about incriminating evidence in order to get you to confess. So for instance they could say they have a girl who told them you paid her for sex. And they could be lying, there is no law prohibiting them from lying as part of the interrogation. Do not believe them if they tell you they have the goods on you. Say you want a lawyer. Your lawyer will advise you properly from that point forward.
Just being named is a loss
[QUOTE=Alien988;6671132]The article claims they have a client list in the hundreds, I really don't think they are going to be spending the resources tracking down everyone to be questioned. Assuming everyone gets their own jury, lawyers, and judge you will see it will take years to prosecute everyone.[/QUOTE]They have names, addresses, telephone numbers, work information and driver's licences. Even if you never made an appointment, it's loss to be outed for most.