Washington DC Escorts: Former Madam Protests CNN’s Hiring Elliot Spitzer
Written on June 19, 2010 – 2:37 am | by hookerlooker
Spitzer turned in Davis, who was the owner of a profitable escort service which Spitzer used frequently, as part of his plea deal. Davis was convicted of promoting prostitution in the third degree and spent four months in prison on Rikers Island. She has five years of probation and forfeited all her assets. Davis says the reason she was charged and Spitzer was not is that there exists a “separate set of standards for the political class then there are for average citizens.”
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In a phone interview from Canada where she now lives, McLennan also feels that the justice system unfairly punishes prostitutes and escort agency owners and not the clients (i.e. johns) who solicit them. “Eliot Spitzer, like so many johns before him, is getting a free pass because of his wealth, his connections and, yes, his gender,” she wrote in a New York Post op-ed after the U.S. attorney’s office announced that Spitzer would not be charged.