Houston Escorts In The Media

THE PROSECUTION
Steven Durham: The chief of the public corruption unit at the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington has directed a wide variety of white-collar prosecutions, including one against Riggs Bank that resulted in the largest criminal fine in the history of the Bank Secrecy Act. Durham, right, also prosecuted baseball player Miguel Tejada, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of misleading congressional investigators who questioned him about steroids.
Daniel Butler: As an assistant U.S. attorney, Butler, left, specializes in fraud and public corruption cases. He successfully prosecuted two racketeering trials, one involving 10 defendants who robbed six banks with machine guns. The other was the case of “D.C. madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who ran an escort service that catered to high profile clients including Sen. David Vitter, R-La. (Associated Press)

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THE PROSECUTION
Steven Durham: The chief of the public corruption unit at the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington has directed a wide variety of white-collar prosecutions, including one against Riggs Bank that resulted in the largest criminal fine in the history of the Bank Secrecy Act. Durham, right, also prosecuted baseball player Miguel Tejada, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of misleading congressional investigators who questioned him about steroids.
Daniel Butler: As an assistant U.S. attorney, Butler, left, specializes in fraud and public corruption cases. He successfully prosecuted two racketeering trials, one involving 10 defendants who robbed six banks with machine guns. The other was the case of “D.C. madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who ran an escort service that catered to high profile clients including Sen. David Vitter, R-La. (Associated Press)

See the full article from “Houston Chronicle (blog)”

THE PROSECUTION
Steven Durham: The chief of the public corruption unit at the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington has directed a wide variety of white-collar prosecutions, including one against Riggs Bank that resulted in the largest criminal fine in the history of the Bank Secrecy Act. Durham, right, also prosecuted baseball player Miguel Tejada, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of misleading congressional investigators who questioned him about steroids.
Daniel Butler: As an assistant U.S. attorney, Butler, left, specializes in fraud and public corruption cases. He successfully prosecuted two racketeering trials, one involving 10 defendants who robbed six banks with machine guns. The other was the case of “D.C. madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who ran an escort service that catered to high profile clients including Sen. David Vitter, R-La. (Associated Press)

See the full article from “Houston Chronicle (blog)”

THE PROSECUTION
Steven Durham: The chief of the public corruption unit at the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington has directed a wide variety of white-collar prosecutions, including one against Riggs Bank that resulted in the largest criminal fine in the history of the Bank Secrecy Act. Durham, right, also prosecuted baseball player Miguel Tejada, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of misleading congressional investigators who questioned him about steroids.
Daniel Butler: As an assistant U.S. attorney, Butler, left, specializes in fraud and public corruption cases. He successfully prosecuted two racketeering trials, one involving 10 defendants who robbed six banks with machine guns. The other was the case of “D.C. madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who ran an escort service that catered to high profile clients including Sen. David Vitter, R-La. (Associated Press)

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Ex Cop To Be Sentenced For Corruption
Posted: Apr 12, 2012 7:18 AM
HOUSTON – A former Houston police officer convicted of taking a bribe and escorting narcotics shipments through the Houston area is to be sentenced.
Leslie Aikens could get from 10 years to life imprisonment for providing the escort service and could get 20 years in prison for taking the $2,000 bribe. He was convicted of both counts by a federal court jury in Houston on Nov. 15.
The jury deliberated less than two hours before reaching its verdict after a two-day trial.
Aikens was nabbed by an undercover FBI investigation, assisted by Houston police and Texas Rangers.

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Man, Woman, Sentenced In Texas Sex Trafficking Case
HOUSTON (April 10, 2012)–A federal judge has sentenced a man and a woman who prosecutors say smuggled Mexican women into the country to prostitute themselves at Houston-area bars and restaurants to prison.
A statement from the U.S. attorney’s office says Jose Luis and Maria Rojas were both sentenced to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty in November to conspiracy to harbor illegal immigrants and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
Prosecutors said Mexican women and girls were lured to the United States with the promise of legitimate jobs in Houston’s bars and restaurants, but instead were forced into prostitution.
Eight others have also pleaded guilty to charges relating to the operation.
Six were sentenced to eight to 11 months in prison, while two others await sentencing.

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Posted: Apr 10, 2012 5:03 AM
Updated: Apr 10, 2012 5:04 AM
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) A military judge will hear arguments this morning about whether to postpone the trial of an Army psychiatrist who’s charged in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage. Major Nidal Hasan’s (nih-DAHL’ hah-SAHNZ’) attorneys haven’t said why they want the trial postponed from June until October. Hasan’s charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
HOUSTON (AP) A federal judge sentenced a man and a woman to 16 years in prison after they pleaded guilty to smuggling Mexican women into the country to prostitute themselves at Houston-area bars and restaurants. Prosecutors say Mexican women and girls were lured to the U.S. with the promise of legitimate jobs in Houston’s bars and restaurants. Instead, they were forced into prostitution.

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2 get prison after admitting to sex trafficking
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge has given prison sentences to a man and woman who prosecutors say smuggled Mexican women into the country to prostitute themselves at Houston-area bars and restaurants. A statement from the U.S. attorney’s office Monday says Jose Luis and Maria Rojas received…

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1. March 10, 2012- Robert Parton was arrested on felony
warrants for supplying crack cocaine to a 16-year-old girl in exchange for
personal sexual favors. The girl also told police Parton advertised her for
prostitution on the website Backpage.com and kept the money she made. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Man-charged-with-sexual-assault-of-a-child-3397274.php
2. July 6, 2011 – A 25-year-old woman was arrested for
posting pictures of a 16-year-old in an advertisement for sex on Backpage.com.
An undercover officer was conducting a sting in a Comfort Inn Hotel when the
16-year-old girl was arrested and told the officer the 25-year-old woman posted
her pictures on Backpage.com. http://www.khou.com/news/local/Houston-woman-accused-of-forcing-teen-into-life-of-prostitution-125110299.html
3. November 1, 2011 – Kala Bray and Vincent Jones were
indicted by a grand jury on charges of prostituting 15 and 16-year-old girls.
Both teens were given drugs before they had sex with clients who responded to
the ads Bray and Jones posted of the girls on Backpage.com in Memphis and
Texas. http://www.wreg.com/wreg-sex-trafficking-ring-targeting-midsouth-teens-is-busted-20111101,0,6649983.story
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5. October 20, 2010 – A couple was accused of luring a
16-year-old girl into prostitution and posting pictures of the girl as an
advertisement on Backpage.com. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Couple-accused-of-luring-teen-into-prostitution-714392.php

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Just as Houston Chronicle society writer Sarah Tressler’s second livelihood is being exposed, CultureMap has learned that our own social maven — Shelby Hodge — has a secret life of her own.  
CultureMap editor-in-chief Clifford Pugh happened to bump into Shelby’s desk on Friday morning, sending her purse careening into the middle of the editorial room, spilling the contents everywhere. A leather-bound little black book and wads upon wads​ of Benjamins were most notable among the mess, and inquiring minds had to know the scoop. 
The mishap revealed a fact that many influential men-about-town already know: Shelby Hodge is Madam S. 
“Please, do not use the word prostitute or something so crass as hooker. My girls are ladies, courtesans, who’ve chosen the oldest career path in the world to buy themselves the finer things in life and to gain access to men with money,” said Shelby. ”This is completely off the record but more than a few of these beauties now live in big fine houses in River Oaks.”

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