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These things are inevitable: death, taxes, and prostitutes coming to town for the Super Bowl.
For a large number of escorts willing to travel, this week represents the annual call to cash, the ritualistic mid-winter trip to whatever American city upon which the National Football League has so graciously bestowed its end-of-season coronation.
Politicians and media types may debate exactly what kind of stimulus the Super Bowl (and now, the Pro Bowl) actually gives the local economy, but there’s no debating the huge impact such events have on the economy of sex.
Ask Disco Rick, the “talent manager” (read: stripper wrangler) at King of Diamonds strip club, and he says “this week is going to be the biggest in strip club history in South Florida.” His club will have more than 500 women working this week.

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… The sole intent of our investigation was to determine whether or not Senator Landrieu was purposely trying to avoid constituents who were calling to register their views to her as their senator,” O’Keefe said in his statement Friday. ”We videotaped the entire visit, the government has those tapes, and I’m eager for them to be released because they refute the false claims being repeated by much of the mainstream media.”
Basel said he concurred with O’Keefe’s statement but could not comment further.
”Understand that because of the seriousness of the allegations we cannot speak to the case or the charges basically beyond what James wrote in that statement at this time,” Basel said in a phone call to The Associated Press in Minneapolis.
O’Keefe last year became famous for his videos about ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, which has affiliates that register voters in urban and other poor areas of the country. He used a hidden camera to record as he brought a young woman posing as a prostitute to the group’s offices.

See the full article from “New York Times”

In a statement released by her office, the Democratic senator also called claims by the men’s lawyers that their clients were trying to embarrass her staff “a clear and calculated effort to divert attention away” from the crime itself.
“The fact remains that they perpetrated a false identity scheme on building security by posing as telephone workers and attempting to manipulate the phone in her office,” the statement said, saying those involved could face up to 10 years in prison for the federal crime.
O’Keefe is the same conservative activist who dressed as a pimp last summer and visited an office of ACORN, which bills itself as an advocacy group for low- and middle-income families, to solicit advice on setting up a brothel, among other scenarios, law enforcement officials said. He secretly recorded the visits, and the videos were posted on the Internet, leading to a media firestorm.

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Metairie woman accused of extorting patron she met through escort service
January 29, 2010, 4:45PM
A 21-year-old Metairie woman has been booked with extortion for threatening to expose her relationship with a Kenner man if he didn’t give her $6,000, police said Friday.
Kenner Police DepartmentLaceyanne RobersonInvestigators said Laceyanne Nichole Roberson of 703 Bell St. told the 51-year-old man in a Jan. 11 text message to send her $6,000 via Western Union. Otherwise, she would tell his wife and children about their arrangement, police said.
Roberson and the man grew acquainted in July when Roberson was working as an escort, said Lt. Wayne McInnis, Kenner Police Department spokesman. The report didn’t mention whether their relationship was sexual, McInnis said.
Soon the man moved her into a Kenner apartment and furnished it with $10,000 worth of furniture, McInnis said. She quit her escort service.

See the full article from “NOLA.com”

O’Keefe said the investigation was launched because “many of Senator Landrieu’s constituents were having trouble getting through to her office to tell her that they didn’t want her taking millions of federal dollars in exchange for her vote on the health-care bill.”
Asked about this, O’Keefe wrote, Landrieu claimed their phone lines have been jammed for weeks.
“I decided to investigate why a representative of the people would be out of touch with her constituents for ‘weeks’ because her phones were broken.  In investigating this matter, we decided to visit Senator Landrieu’s district office – the people’s office – to ask the staff if their phones were working,” he wrote.
O’Keefe made a name for himself after publishing videos of his going undercover as a pimp to tape ACORN workers providing advice on how to set up a brothel.

See the full article from “Daily Caller”

Fassel ultimately wound up losing that game, but his message is one many coaches have uttered over the years. In fact, you can bet the Indianapolis Colts’ Jim Caldwell and the New Orleans Saints’ Sean Payton have delivered similar speeches as their teams prepare for Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. As everyone knows, this game is the dream that occupies the mind of every player in the NFL. What those same players sometimes don’t realize is how easily the opportunity of a lifetime could be ruined by poor decisions.
Consider the plight of former Cincinnati Bengals fullback Stanley Wilson. He went on a cocaine binge the night before his team met the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIII and didn’t even play in the game. Former Atlanta Falcons safety Eugene Robinson also fell into Super Bowl infamy a decade later. He approached a prostitute on the night before Super Bowl XXXIII and wound up arrested by a woman who turned out to be an undercover cop.

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WASHINGTON: A conservative activist famous for a ”prostitute and pimp” sting against a federally funded community group has been arrested for trying to ”maliciously interfere” with the phone lines of a Democrat senator.
James O’Keefe, 25, and three other young right-wing activists face up to 10 years in jail and fines of more than $250,000 for entering federal property under false pretences.
The FBI alleged that on Monday two men arrived at the offices of Senator Mary Landrieu, in New Orleans, dressed in hard hats, tool belts and fluorescent vests. The men said they had come to fix the phones.
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He became a darling of the right when he and Hannah Giles, 20 – posing as a pimp and a prostitute – sought to elicit advice from workers with the community group ACORN on evading taxes and harbouring underage sex workers.

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Some initial reaction to the incident referred to it as “Louisiana Watergate.” Officials do not believe that the intention was to wiretap the office. Just before midnight on Wednesday, O’Keefe posted the message “Govt official concedes no attempt to wiretap” on his Twitter account.
“Their lawyer said there was no wiretapping going on,” Doebler said. “[O’Keefe] does try to get the story in an unorthodox way.”
No further information has been released regarding what the men planned to do with the phones, and the affidavit did not give details about what they did with the phones.
Flanagan had previously written blog posts that were critical of Landrieu for her stance on health care legislation and that raised questions regarding campaign finance.
O’Keefe gained notoriety after he posted videos of himself consulting with Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) workers on advice about how to open a brothel while he and an associate, Hannah Giles, posed as a pimp and prostitute. ACORN is suing O’Keefe and Giles over the so-called “pimpgate” video.

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Wetmore declined to discuss their stay at his house and what they did while there. But he praised O’Keefe’s work targeting ACORN on his Web site and said he hired O’Keefe in 2006, helping him hone his undercover camera craft.
In an Oct. 16 blog post, Wetmore criticized the Leadership Institute, where he no longer works, for not supporting O’Keefe’s budding activism. Wetmore said he was “nearly fired for buying the initial video equipment that James used.”
O’Keefe last year became famous for his videos about ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, which has affiliates that register voters in urban and other poor areas of the country. He used a hidden camera to record as he brought a young woman posing as a prostitute to the group’s offices.

See the full article from “San Diego Union Tribune”

Review: Nicolas Cage slithers through ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’
Friday, January 29, 2010
By Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes share love and a drug connection in “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.”
From a drug-addled haze, homicide detective Terence McDonagh tells a paramour, “Whatever I take is prescription … except for the heroin.”
And the cocaine, marijuana and powerful painkillers (admittedly prescription, just not for him) he can score from drug dealers or intimidated club kids or customers of his prostitute-girlfriend, played by Eva Mendes, or directly from the police property room.
Cameras have nothing on Terence, who knows all about blind spots, about cadging just enough powder so that the remainder still qualifies for a felony charge, and about disposing of pesky voucher copies.

See the full article from “Pittsburgh Post Gazette”