New York Escorts: Police: Priest stole $1.3 million in parish funds

Since May 24, 2003, $655,936.48 worth of checks from church funds were cashed by American Express to pay charges on Father Gray’s account, the affidavit states. Charges between May 2003 and March 2010 included $205,679.78 to restaurants in New York, Boston and Connecticut, including several visits to New York’s Tavern On The Green, Boston’s Legal Seafood and New Haven’s Scoozzi Trattoria and Wine Bar, the affidavit states.
Father Gray also charged nearly $150,000 in stays at high-end hotels in New York City, Boston and New Haven, including frequent stays at The Roosevelt, the W and the Waldorf Astoria in New York, police said.
The affidavit also states that Father Gray opened credit card accounts in the names of Manuel Paque, a man he met at a male strip bar, and Islagar Labrada, a man he met through an escort service — both paid through Father Gray’s account.

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New York Escorts: Police: Priest Used Parish Money For Hotels, Male Escorts

Zhong said he asked Gray several times why Gray was paying him with checks from the Sacred Heart Church bank account instead of Gray’s personal account. Gray said he placed his life savings, including money he had earned from winning big cases as an attorney, into the church’s account.
While police questioned Zhong on June 10, Gray arrived at the apartment. Zhong asked police if he could speak with Gray first. In the presence of the detectives, Zhong asked Gray if he was an attorney, if he had ever attended Georgetown, if he had colon cancer and if he had ever had cancer. To all four questions, Gray answered “No,” the affidavit states.
He admitted to writing himself checks, paying his American Express bills and paying money to Zhong for his rent. He told police he used his American Express card to purchase clothes, dinners, hotel rooms and escort services.

See the full article from “Hartford Courant”

New York Escorts: Police: Priest Used Parish Money For Hotels, Male Escorts

He admitted to writing himself checks, paying his American Express bills and paying money to Zhong for his rent. He told police he used his American Express card to purchase clothes, dinners, hotel rooms and escort services.
Gray stated that he would order male escorts from Campus Escorts in New York. He said he would have the escorts meet him in hotel rooms he had rented.
Since May 24, 2003, $655,936.48 worth of checks from the church funds were cashed by American Express to pay for charges to Gray’s account, the affidavit states.

The affidavit also states that Gray opened credit card accounts in the names of Manuel Paque, a man Gray met at a male strip bar, and Islagar Labrada, a man Gray met through an escort service, on Gray’s own account.

See the full article from “Hartford Courant”

New York Escorts: Men charged with beating, torturing 2 sisters in Colonie motel room

COLONIE — Authorities say two brothers have been charged with beating and torturing two Vermont sisters in a Colonie motel room over a dispute involving the men’s escort service.
Officials say Friday the sisters from Pawlet, Vt. traveled to New York City in February after seeing an Internet advertisement for jobs in the entertainment business. Police say once there, the sisters realized the jobs were for illegal escort services and left the city.
Police say 31-year-old Colby Sylvain of Bayonne, N.J. and 29-year-old Herby Sylvain of Brooklyn tracked the sisters to an upstate motel, where they beat, tortured and robbed the women.
The brothers were arraigned Monday on charges including assault and unlawful imprisonment and grand larceny. They were sent to jail.

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New York Escorts: Computers That Listen And Learn Better Than You Do

Advanced features even allow the receptionist to make small talk. If she recognizes the visitor, she might bring up past appointments, or mention events both the visitor and Horvitz attended.
The technology gets more complicated and more refined with each passing day, but unlike humans, practice doesn’t always make perfect.
Take the virtual personal assistant Siri, which returns restaurant suggestions after analyzing voice requests from iPhone users.
Nelson Walters, an MTV television producer in New York, is a Siri fan. It saves him time and impresses his girlfriend. “I will no longer get lost in searching Yelp for restaurant recommendations,” he said. But occasionally, Mr. Walters said, Siri stumbles. Recently, he asked Siri for the location of a sushi restaurant he knew. Siri replied with directions to an Asian escort service. “I swear that’s not what I was looking for,” he said.

See the full article from “Kotaku.com (blog)”

New York Escorts: ‘Client No. 9,’ Disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer, Takes Over the Family Hour …

Spitzer is a “john” who solicited and had sex with prostitutes for years while he was attorney general and governor of New York. He also laundered money to avoid getting caught paying the prostitutes’ escort services.
Furthermore, Spitzer broke federal laws in human sex trafficking and the Mann Act when he paid Ashley Dupré to travel to Washington, D.C. to have sex with him. In fact, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said, “on multiple occasions, Mr. Spitzer arranged for women to travel from one state to another state to engage in prostitution.”
However, unlike the owners of the escort services or the prostitutes involved in his case, Spitzer was never charged with a crime. Despite the overwhelming evidence that he was a longtime client of a prostitution ring during the years he was attorney general and governor, Spitzer got off scot-free.

See the full article from “Big Journalism (blog)”

New York Escorts: NJ escort service official admits laundering

JERSEY CITY — The operator of a North Jersey-based escort service has admitted laundering more than $3 million per year.
Hudson County prosecutors say 44-year-old Joseph Ruis of Jersey City made the money through the prostitution ring and by sometimes providing illegal drugs to clients. He faces up to seven years in prison when he’s sentenced Sept. 17.
Prosecutors say authorities seized several hundred thousand dollars from bank accounts associated with the World Class Party Girls service, which charged customers rates ranging from $500 to $3,500 per hour.
Investigators found credit card bills as high as $20,000 for one session when more than one prostitute and cocaine was involved. And they say some customers had tabs as high as $100,000.
Ruis remains free on $500,000 bail.
– Associated Press

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New York Escorts: Call off the bod squad – this boob has been exposed

So the Queens-bred double-D did what any plastic lady would do when surgical attempts to achieve physical perfection produce the unintended consequence of making her resemble a post-op transsexual.
She filed a lawsuit.
The dame didn’t sue her cute plastic surgeon or the American Mirror Co. for intentionally deluding her. She sued Citibank. For firing her. Because she was “too hot.” She claimed, with a straight face, that her bosses deemed her too sexy to count clients’ money.
Which is like saying Helen Thomas should sue Israel for rendering her unable to perform her professional duties because the country turned her into a blithering idiot.
Today starts Week 3 of the Debrahlee Lorenzana Crisis. In Week 1, the lady attempted to con America into believing she was the victim of her much-exaggerated hottitude — while spreading soft-porn photos of herself like fliers for an escort agency.

See the full article from “New York Post”

New York Escorts: Is US Funding Both Sides in Afghan War?

The investigation was prompted by growing suspicions that some of the security firms are paying the Taliban for not attacking convoys transporting supplies to U.S. and NATO forces along highways where ambushes are common occurrences. Some of the firms are even suspected of paying the Taliban to mount attacks on competing companies.
“We’re funding both sides,” a NATO official told the Times on the condition of anonymity.  
Suspicions grew, the Times reported, after two of the largest companies, Watan Risk Management and Compass Security, were banned from escorting NATO convoys between Kabul and Kandahar, following violent confrontations with Afghan civilians. On the day the ban took effect, a NATO caravan was attacked and an Afghan driver and a soldier were killed.
Two weeks later, more than 1,000 trucks were stalled on the highway, unable to advance. The Afghan government then gave Watan and Compass permission to resume escort services.

See the full article from “The New American”

New York Escorts: Nine’s a winning ‘Number’ in Crosley’s short-story collection

But it won’t be easy to pry Crosley loose from her habitat: it provides her topics – Manhattan, apartments and the oddness of life outside of New York, in, say, Alaska, where bears share the neighborhood.
Crosley’s lifestyle is ruled by real estate. This will cheer the untried housing seeker. In “Take a Stab at It,” her strongest essay, Crosley goes condo-hunting with a friend whose parents will bankroll the down payment. The piece offers both snappy one-liners and a credible moral inquiry into caste: In a spat after her wealthy friend pays for dinner, she wonders, “If I felt this indebted over pizza, how was I going to cope with floor-to-ceiling French doors?” Later, when the condo deal dissolves, Crosley finds herself reading local newspapers, hovering over local papers’ escort agency ads and thinking, “How bad would it really be?” if the result were a place of her own.

See the full article from “Boston Herald”

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