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Escort in Colombia: 'I Tell Him, 'Baby, My Cash Money'

New York Times gets interview with woman at heart of Secret Service scandal

(Newser) - The Secret Service scandal has cost three agency employees their jobs so far, reports AP . (One quit, one supervisor retired, and another supervisor is in the process of being fired.) The New York Times , meanwhile, scored an interview with the 24-year-old escort at the heart of the case, the... More »

NY Prostitutes: Time to Ban Condoms as Evidence

It would make sex safer, they argue

(Newser) - New York prostitutes think they—and their clients—will be safer if their state becomes the first to stop using condoms as evidence in prostitution arrests, Bloomberg reports. Since condoms are considered probable cause and can be used against them, many prostitutes simply don't carry protection while working, explains... More »

Agents Boasted About Work to Prostitutes: Sources

This is not the scandal Obama needed before election

(Newser) - In another apparent security breach, Secret Service agents in Colombia bragged to prostitutes that they were in charge of protecting President Obama, sources tell ABC News . As they partied at a sex club, members of the president’s advance team allegedly boasted: “We work for Obama,” and “... More »

21 Prostitutes May Have Visited Secret Service Hotel

9 military personnel now suspected in scandal

(Newser) - Up to 21 prostitutes may have joined 11 Secret Service agents and not five but as many as nine military personnel in their hotel in Colombia , officials now say. As those numbers tick up, other numbers emerge—related to the payment that brought the scandal to light. The Washington Post... More »

'Sex Scandal' Agents Had Obama's Sked in Rooms

'What if the women had been spies?' asks senator

(Newser) - Secret Service agents had copies of President Obama's schedule in their hotel rooms while they were allegedly entertaining prostitutes in Colombia last week, sources have told MSNBC . The latest information about agent hijinks raises the disturbing issue of serious security breaches. "I can't help but think what... More »

Mass Wedding Aims to Save 'Village of Prostitutes'

Young Indian women destined to be sex workers head down aisle instead

(Newser) - A human rights organization yesterday held a mass wedding for young women in an Indian village where all the females are supposed to become sex workers. Eight young brides over the age of 18 were married to local men, and 12 underage girls were engaged at the event, reports Agence... More »

Nevada Prostitutes 'Pimpin' for Ron Paul'

Clients encouraged to donate to his campaign

(Newser) - The latest group to get into Ron Paul's corner: prostitutes. Working girls at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada, launched a "Pimpin' for Paul" campaign weeks ago that's getting new attention thanks to a recent CNN segment. "If a client comes into the... More »

Missing Prostitute's Bones Found on Long Island

Medical examiner thinks it was an accidental death

(Newser) - Police think they have at last found the remains of missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert, more than a year after the search for her led them to the discovery of a serial killer's graveyard . After an exhaustive, weeklong search of a 100-acre marsh in Oak Beach on Long Island, police... More »

Cops: It's Likely Just 1 Serial Killer on Long Island

They revise theory about two suspects

(Newser) - Long Island police say there's probably just one local serial killer responsible for the murders of 10 people whose bodies were stashed along desolate parts of Ocean Parkway, reports Newsday . Earlier this year, investigators began working on the theory that multiple killers were at large, mostly because two victims... More »

Cop Accused of Organizing Orgies for DSK

Officer allegedly brought hookers to Paris, NYC for Strauss-Kahn

(Newser) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn's name has appeared in another sex scandal, reports the Daily Mail . This time, a French investigation into a prostitution racket has turned up a high-ranking police officer who had hoped to lead Strauss-Kahn's protection unit, had DSK been elected French president. That police official allegedly organized... More »

Inquest Probes Banker's Hanging With Prostitutes

Former exec hired women to punish him

(Newser) - Last year, an out-of-work British banker hired two prostitutes to stage his mock execution in the woods—and when they refused to follow through, he apparently hanged himself, the Daily Mail reports. This week, an inquest looked into the grisly details. Colin Birch, once an official at Deutsche Bank, had... More »

Escorts: Utah Law Makes It Illegal to Act Sexy

They're suing to halt new law aimed at prostitutes

(Newser) - Be careful how you act in Utah: If you get too “sexy,” you could find yourself arrested under a new law. The law broadens the definition of solicitation—agreeing to trade sex for money—to include “lewd acts” that imply you want to trade sex for money,... More »

Strauss-Kahn Hired Hookers, Was 'Rough'

'Spitzer Madam' Kristin Davis says he was a client in 2006

(Newser) - “The Great Seducer” Dominique Strauss-Kahn liked prostitutes—but two that he hired claimed the former IMF chief was “aggressive … rough and angry,” Kristin Davis tells the Telegraph . Davis, of course, is the “Manhattan Madam” who infamously provided prostitutes to Eliot Spitzer. She claims Strauss-Kahn... More »

DA: At Least 2 Killers in Long Island Deaths

Killing methods, circumstances different between 10 remains found

(Newser) - Long Island officials on the trail of a suspected serial killer now say that at least two murderers are behind the string of human remains found in a desolate beach area. Suffolk County DA Thomas Spota said today that different killing methods and circumstances indicate the work of at least... More »

Long Island Serial Killer Is Smart, Suave, Sadistic

That's the best guess of criminologists sketching a personality profile

(Newser) - With a suspected serial killer dumping bodies near Long Island's Ocean Parkway, the New York Times rounds up a personality profile based on interviews with experts. Among the guesses:
  • It's a white man in his mid-20s to mid-40s who is either married or has a girlfriend.
  • He's
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Latest Remains Not Related to LI Killer

Search for Shannan Gilbert takes to the sea

(Newser) - The serial killer that Long Island cops suspect is using a lonely stretch near Jones Beach as a dumping ground may not be the first to have done so: The latest remains pulled from the area are too old to be connected with those of four prostitutes found in December.... More »

Are There 2 NY Killers?

Cops wonder if another murderer is using beach as dumping ground

(Newser) - The mounting trove of bones discovered on an isolated strip of Long Island beach now has cops wondering if there could be more than one killer operating in the area. The body count is now up to 10 , all women except for a single toddler . "Now the question is... More »

Body No. 10 Found on LI Beach

Partial sets of remains found as search resumes

(Newser) - Cops searching near Long Island's Jones Beach have made another grisly discovery on the trail of a suspected serial killer: The potential ninth and 10th sets of remains, reports the AP. "They are human remains. It’s not a complete body, they are partial human remains," says one... More »

Child Among Remains Pulled From LI Beach

Search resumes today

(Newser) - One of the four bodies that cops found on a desolate Long Island beach last week is that of an infant or child, reports the New York Post. "One doesn't match the others. It's a young person, possibly as young as an infant, or a child," says a... More »

Savvy LI Killer Used Tech to Torment Victim's Sis

Calls from victim's cell phone show awareness of cops' methods

(Newser) - After the suspected Long Island serial killer took Melissa Barthelemy's life, he likely took her cell phone and used it to torment her teenage sister—and he did so in a way that leads cops to think that he's no stranger to their investigative methods, reports the New York Times.... More »

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