Miami Companions and agency troubles
The question for any high-profile agency is not *if* they will get busted, but *when*. For LE, there is a high political payoff to busting "interstate prostitution rings."
The future of the hobby, as most of you would likely agree, is the independents who advertise here and on other sites we all know well.
LE can successfully make the MC bust look like Elliot Ness taking down Al Capone. However, when they are arresting young women who are freely engaged in the hobby, they look like bullies. I have a non-hobbyist *female* co-worker who recently said, "I would rather have law enforcement focusing on preventing real crime, rather than fooling around with strippers and hookers." This is coming from a married 40-something mother of three. That is progress in the public opinion realm, IMO.
As the disintermediation of the hobby continues, the political payoff involved in busts will disappear. Sooner or later the taxpayer will see that this is about prying into the private lives of consenting adults, not protecting the public.
I am sorry about MC; but I at the same time, I am frankly surprised that they lasted this long.
Always comes down to the money....
[QUOTE=Todd Cincy]The question for any high-profile agency is not *if* they will get busted, but *when*. For LE, there is a high political payoff to busting "interstate prostitution rings."
The future of the hobby, as most of you would likely agree, is the independents who advertise here and on other sites we all know well.
LE can successfully make the MC bust look like Elliot Ness taking down Al Capone. However, when they are arresting young women who are freely engaged in the hobby, they look like bullies. I have a non-hobbyist *female* co-worker who recently said, "I would rather have law enforcement focusing on preventing real crime, rather than fooling around with strippers and hookers." This is coming from a married 40-something mother of three. That is progress in the public opinion realm, IMO.
As the disintermediation of the hobby continues, the political payoff involved in busts will disappear. Sooner or later the taxpayer will see that this is about prying into the private lives of consenting adults, not protecting the public.
I am sorry about MC; but I at the same time, I am frankly surprised that they lasted this long.[/QUOTE]
This case will be just like Operation Flee Collar was for the large canine board...
Chas got tagged by the IRS rather than the locals
So I would expect the tax evasion & money laundering to be what they wind up doing time on rather than they're assisting with scheduling "dates".