Detroit Escorts: Pelosi throws support behind Rep. Conyers
June 19, 2009 at 1:13 am | In Detroit escorts | No Comments… He has oversight in the broadest sense,” Bositis said. “If someone said he needed to recuse himself, I think it’d be seen as partisan. No one would take that seriously.”
The House has spent today in a marathon series of votes, and Conyers has been on the floor voting.
Several Michigan members said in interviews today that knowledge about Conyers’ wife doesn’t yet seem to be widespread in the Congress.
But they added that they couldn’t imagine a scenario where a lawmaker would suffer consequences in the House over a criminal matter involving a spouse or other relative.
In April 2008, for example, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, went onto the floor and delivered speeches as usual on the day news broke that her husband had hired a prostitute. Stabenow’s husband, Thomas Athans, was not charged with a crime, and Stabenow didn’t suffer any political consequences in the wake of the scandal.
Detroit Escorts: Senator’s spouse linked to prostitute
June 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsSenator’s spouse linked to prostitute
By Natasha Robinson, Ken Thomas
Associated Press
Published on: 04/03/08
Troy, Mich. —- The husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) told authorities that he used the Internet to arrange a $150 sexual tryst with a prostitute at a metropolitan Detroit hotel, police said Wednesday.
Thomas Athans, 46, co-founder of the liberal TalkUSA Radio network, was stopped by police who were investigating prostitution at the hotel, according to a police report.
Athans, in a statement issued by his attorney, apologized and said he “fully cooperated with law enforcement. My family and I are dealing with this matter in a personal and private way.”
Stabenow said in an interview that she wanted “folks to know that I’m grateful for their prayers and support and this is a family matter that is very difficult but we are going to work through it.”
Detroit Escorts: Hawaii Shakespeare Festival Returns With RICHARD II, PERICLES …
June 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsThe 2009 season begins with an all-female production of “Richard II,” one of Shakespeare’s greatest, and most intimate, tragedies. King Richard II, heir to an ancient line of kings, rules England with a decadent arrogance. When his rebel cousin Henry Bolingbroke lays claim to the throne, Richard must come face to face with his own weaknesses. In this lyrical and rarely performed play, Shakespeare confronts questions about the nature of power that still haunt us today. “Richard II” is directed by Harry Wong III and stars Katherine Aumer-Ryan as King Richard and Elizabeth Wolfe as Henry Bolingbroke.
The season continues with of “Pericles,” a romp of a play about the title character’s search for a wife (whom he finds, then loses) and later his daughter (whom he loses, then finds). Along the way there is a shipwreck, pirates, a kidnapping, treacherous monarchs, a pageant of (Greek) knights, a sleazy brothel and an eccentric wizard. “Pericles” has long held a reputation as one of Shakespeare’s hidden gems. “Pericles” is directed by R. Kevin Garcia Doyle and stars Jason Quinn as Pericles, Julia Nakamoto as Marina and Eden-Lee Murray Jellinek as the narrator, Gower.
Detroit Escorts: Prince Harry Heads to Big Apple to "Meet a Black Person"
June 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsRounds of applause erupted from the crowds of spectators as Harry managed to place the wreath the right side up on his first attempt.
He told reporters from Pox News My family are so proud to be closely associated with it and its purpose in honouring the memory of the 3,000-plus people who were murdered here on September 11th 2001. Thank you Israel, thank you Mossad, for such a superb false flag demolition job.”
After observing two minutes’ silence by turning down the volume on his I-Pod MP3 player, Harry – accompanied by his current girlfriend – South African catwalk model Fellatia van der Gobble went off to meet military veterans crippled by depleted uranium, at a medical centre in Manhattan and discussed his own two week stint of army service in Afghanistan, when he was posted on front line duty guarding a carton of MoD-issue Black Mamba condoms in a Kabul brothel.
Detroit Escorts: Recent sentencings in Genesee Circuit Court
June 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsMatthews, Demontae V., 20, of Flint; 1 year 11 months to 5 years MDOC and pay $900 restitution for probation violation of 2008 conviction of attempted breaking and entering with intent; June 4, Yuille.
Moreau, Jamie M., 31, of Davison; 35 days jail, 5 years probation and pay $100 restitution for drunken driving with an occupant under the age 16; June 8, Fullerton.
Morgan, Eric J. Jr., 19, of Flint; 180 days jail and 5 years probation for attempted second-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a person under 13; June 4, Hayman.
Nelson, Arthur, 40, of Flint; 9 months MDOC for carrying a concealed weapon and 2 years MDOC for felony firearms; June 4, Hayman.
Palmer, Mistie R.S., 27, of Burton; 270 days jail for probation violation of 2005 conviction of prostitution accosting and soliciting, possession of a controlled substance less than 25 grams and possession of a non-narcotic controlled substance; June 4, Yuille.
Detroit Escorts: Couple charged in abduction, rape of Detroit woman
June 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsUpon further disclosure from the victim, who described herself as a prostitute, Myers found that she was a picked up by her abductors around midnight near Mack and Sylvester in Detroit. The woman was able to lead police back to the home where she’d spent the night against her will and described her attackers as the couple that lived there.
Chesterfield Township residents Michael Ventrella, 33, and his wife, Jamie Rae Ventrella, 21, were arrested and charged with kidnapping, first-degree criminal sexual conduct and conspiracy to commit criminal sexual conduct. All three charges are punishable up to life in prison.
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The woman disclosed to police that she is a prostitute and that she’d seen Michael Ventrella before. Chesterfield police will not be issuing citations to the victim for soliciting sex acts, as “this wasn’t a complaint of prostitution,” Myers said.
Detroit Escorts: Couple held in woman’s capture, assault
June 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsChesterfield Twp.
Couple held in woman’s capture, assault
BY CHRISTINA HALL FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
June 6, 2009
A self-described Detroit prostitute told police she willingly climbed into a tractor-trailer driven by a Chesterfield Township couple, but without warning, the pair bound her and drove her to their home where she was sexually assaulted and held captive.
The husband and wife were ordered held in the Macomb County Jail on Friday — a day after the victim escaped and sought help from neighbors as her hands still were bound behind her back and a gag was in her mouth.
Michael Ventrella, 33, and Jamie Rae Ventrella, 21, are charged with kidnapping, first-degree criminal sexual conduct and conspiracy to commit criminal sexual conduct — all with penalties of up to life in prison, township police said.
Detroit Escorts: Police: Couple Kidnaps Prostitute
June 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsPolice: Couple Kidnaps Prostitute
Woman Was Sexually Assaulted, Held Against Her Will
POSTED: Friday, June 5, 2009
UPDATED: 4:17 pm EDT June 6, 2009
CHESTERFIELD, Mich. — A Chesterfield couple was arraigned Friday on kidnapping and sexual assault charges.
Police said Michael Ventrella, 33, and his 21-year-old wife Jamie Rae, kidnapped a Detroit prostitute Wednesday night and then sexually assaulted her.
Both were charged with kidnapping, first-degree criminal sexual conduct and conspiracy to commit criminal sexual conduct.
Michael and Jamie Ventrella were video arraigned at the 42-2 District Court in New Baltimore. They are being held on a $200,000 bond.
Around noon on June 4, residents called police and said they saw a woman, whose hands were bound behind her back and a gag tied around her mouth, running toward Jefferson Avenue.
See the full article from “WDIV”
Detroit Escorts: Viewpoint: Judgment or compassion?
June 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsFive years ago, in Detroit, a young African-American transgender woman was shot in the head and killed. She, too, was a sex worker. The conversations I heard then were strikingly similar to those of today: “If she hadn’t been doing that, if she hadn’t been where she was, she wouldn’t be dead.”
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Perhaps these women were forced into this line of work, perhaps not. We do know that countless transgender women – one of the most marginalized groups in our society – turn to sex work for survival. Detroit is one of the leading centers of unemployment in the nation, and unemployment among African-American Detroiters is higher still. It doesn’t take a great deal of awareness to understand that transgender women, who have often been forced to leave home before they can even get through high school, have the highest unemployment rate of all. How do you get and keep a decent job when your very existence is anathema to many people, there are no laws to protect you and the only legal identification you have says you are not who you say you are?
Detroit Escorts: Rocket Queen: Coming From Obscurity
June 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsOur conversation turns to the stylistic and sonic distinctions between Cold Fact and his 1971 sophomore release, Coming From Reality, which LITA reissued just last month. Reading with the simplistic-yet-refined grace of a Raymond Carver short story and sounding like the Velvet Underground and Donovan having an unexpectedly fruitful meeting of the minds, Coming From Reality may not be as instantly addictive as Cold Fact, but it reveals itself slowly as a quieter masterpiece.
“A Most Disgusting Song” could be the best character study Lou Reed never got around to writing, with Rodriguez tossing off barroom observations about “local diddy bop pimps,” “bearded schoolboys with wooden eyes,” and various and sordid characters “getting pacified, ossified, and affectionate.” He partially attributes being so flush with details to his re-enrollment in college at the time. “I had worked in a factory; I got back into school late. Everyone around me was younger and full of ideas, so they influenced me a lot. I was being exposed to a lot then, and taking a lot of humanities classes.”
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