Law enforcement in this country is getting increasingly bizarre. First we had the FBI deciding they wanted to invade the religious houses of worship of Muslims with informants who offered drugs and money to desperate, illiterate, down on their luck marginal followers of Islam all in order to make sensational busts with outrageous claims of terror, murder and mayhem.
Now we have a branch of the federal government in the call girl business.
One “hobbyist” described “Michelle” as having a “really great body, beautiful face and (being) dressed to kill.”
Another said “Monique” was into “water fun (and) slip sliding bodies” and charged about $160 for a one-hour session.
Both statements, posted on a Web site that rates escorts, describe in more explicit terms the experiences of customers — or “hobbyists” — with women of Executive Playmates, an escort service suspected by the San Antonio Police Department of generating about $150,000 a month from prostitution between 2005 and 2007.
The department raided the escort service’s central location and one of its hubs in October 2007 and found Executive Playmates employed more than 300 women who serviced about 2,000 customers, law enforcement sources said.
The list of customers includes doctors, lawyers and others of important social standing, but the names are being withheld because of the ongoing investigation.
Many found the service online or in newspaper ads. Its operations extended into Austin and briefly into the Rio Grande Valley.
The department has described the prostitution case as the largest in San Antonio since the 1980s.
The raid drew headlines and was the leading story on local television newscasts when it happened. But authorities have since been silent.
Because the case involves money laundering and organized crime, police turned over their findings months ago to federal prosecutors. But the information has sat at the U.S. attorney’s office with little movement.
A San Antonio Express-News investigation found fewer than 10 people — including the suspected operator, Samuel “Sammy” Flores Jr. — may end up being charged later this year.
Federal law enforcement sources said the case could be complicated because Flores, 38, was working as an informant for the FBI at the time of the bust. The sources said they suspect that has delayed charges in the escort-service case.
Can we get the government to defend and protect the Constitution for a change? Hat tip to Xymphora.
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