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You're 100% correct. She's another shining example of what happens to girls when they're brought up as Dolphins fans.

Oops, you left something out

:rim:

There, that's better. Now, back to the topic of beaten, underage prostitutes being pimped out to LT.

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beyond disgusting.. he is a piece of trash. he just is another shining example of NFL hall of famers..

does he have daughters? really??

i dont care if she is a prostitute, or a runaway.. he shouldnt be raping her, PERIOD.

i realize innocent till proven guilty.. but come one.. if they were looking for a payday.. they should have picked someone better then a former coke addict who is a 7th place DWTS "star."

15 yrs old.. awful just awful

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LT has great taste in attorney-a guy who ahd to resign from being the Rockland DA after..uh, well, woman problems. With whips. At taxpayer expense.

Prosecutor in Rockland County Resigns Post After a Guilty Plea

By JOSEPH BERGER (NYT) 1211 words

New York Times - May 4, 1995

WHITE PLAINS, May 3 - Kenneth Gribetz, the District Attorney of Rockland County, resigned today and pleaded guilty to two Federal misdemeanor counts, one for failing to disclose $36,000 in taxable income and a second for using county investigators on personal errands, like delivering copies of a book he wrote.

It was the first time in 22 years that a District Attorney in the New York metropolitan area had been forced out of office for committing a crime, Federal authorities said.

It was the more remarkable because the 50-year-old Mr. Gribetz, in his 20 years as Rockland's chief prosecutor, had become one of the best known law enforcement officers in the region, as adept at grabbing headlines as he was at winning convictions. In the early 1980's, he successfully prosecuted five radicals who held up a Brinks armored car in the Nanuet Mall and killed two police officers and a guard.

In a spare courtroom here, Mr. Gribetz took up the unaccustomed role of the accused with visible tension, standing stiffly behind the defense table, his jaw clenching repeatedly, his head bowing at times.

"I knowingly did use county employees for personal matters," Mr. Gribetz told Judge Barrington D. Parker Jr. of Federal District Court in an uncommonly hushed voice. "I knowingly failed to make known information to the Internal Revenue Service which I was required to make known to it."

In New City, where Mr. Gribetz had his office, there was sadness as Mr. Gribetz's intensely loyal staff learned of the guilty pleas.

"It is a sad and tragic day for Kenneth Gribetz, his family, friends, staff of the office and the people of Rockland County," said John K. Grant Jr., the chief assistant district attorney, who will take over until Gov. George E. Pataki appoints a replacement. "Kenneth Gribetz is a gifted, talented and brilliant prosecutor."

Even Mary Jo White, the United States Attorney for the Southern District, whose office brought the case, said Mr. Gribetz was "a public official who in other ways has rendered valuable service to the citizens of Rockland County for many years, but whose crimes betrayed that same public's trust."

The plea was a result of last-minute negotiations Tuesday between Mr. Gribetz, his lawyers, Ms. White and her aides, which were completed just hours before a grand jury was expected to agree on a felony indictment. The plea deal forced Mr. Gribetz from office, but it is unlikely to yield more than a few months of jail time, if any, and will probably mean that Mr. Gribetz, after a brief suspension, will be able to resume working as a lawyer in private practice. Mr. Gribetz did not promise to cooperate in other cases.

At the 35-minute hearing, Mr. Gribetz's lawyer, Andrew J. Maloney, sought to minimize the seriousness of the charges, saying that the misuse of county employees cost less than $100 in Federal money and included such well-known events, with no attempt to conceal, as the annual building of the Gribetz family's succah, a wooden booth put up during the eight days of the Jewish holiday of Succoth. Mr. Maloney emphasized that Mr. Gribetz did not acknowledge other elements in the complaint.

The additional taxes that Mr. Gribetz owed, he said, totaled only $1,980 in 1988 and $9,582 in 1992.

Prosecutors submitted a four-page complaint -- a Government document short of an indictment -- that spelled out acts to which Mr. Gribetz did not specifically plead. The document, read in court by Kerry A. Lawrence, an assistant United States attorney, said Mr. Gribetz used county investigators and other employees to chauffeur him and "one or more of his companions" to and from events unrelated to work. Constance Taylor, a 45-year-old Rockland County social services worker who said she carried on a two-year affair with Mr. Gribetz, has told Federal investigators that Mr. Gribetz used office personnel to pick her up for assignations with him.

The documents also calculated the total employee time involved in improper tasks for Mr. Gribetz at $23,000, not just the $100 subsidized by Federal money and thus prosecutable by Federal authorities.

During his arraignment, Mr. Gribetz asked if he could keep his passport so he could visit his daughter Vicki, who is expecting his second grandchild, in Israel. Magistrate Mark D. Fox said he would consider the request but ordered him to surrender his passport for now and restrict his movement to the New York region.

Federal officials said the last District Attorney to be forced from office was Thomas J. Mackell, who resigned as the Queens District Attorney in 1973 after he was indicted on charges of hindering prosecution in a get-rich-quick scheme.

The two misdemeanor counts, theft of Federal funds and willful failure to supply information on tax returns, each carry penalties of one year or less in prison and fines of $100,000 each. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 3.

Two of the most important considerations for Mr. Gribetz were that jail terms are often waived in misdemeanor cases and that misdemeanors, unlike felonies, do not result in automatic disbarment.

"Generally speaking, in misdemeanor tax cases there is a limited period of suspension imposed at the discretion of the Appellate Division," said his lawyer, Mr. Maloney, the former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Mr. Gribetz and his lawyers thought they could forge a deal to avoid a grand jury indictment for felony counts because one of the witnesses against him was expected to have credibility problems. The witness, Murray Bauer, is a private investigator who pleaded guilty to tax evasion two years ago and admitted in court that he was a compulsive gambler whose finances were a shambles.

The core of the two-year Federal investigation of Mr. Gribetz stems from his taking referral fees from lawyers to whom he recommended clients. One case involves $6,000 that was given Mr. Gribetz by a former law partner, Herschel Greenbaum, in the settlement of a 1985 accident case and passed through a Gribetz friend. Another involved $30,000 passed to Mr. Gribetz by Mr. Bauer after the settlement of an unrelated 1990 car accident case.

The legality of referral fees is murky. But the documents produced in court today say that such practice is illegal if no actual services are performed to deserve a payment. Large prosecutorial offices like Manhattan's forbid assistants from doing any outside legal work and from accepting referral fees.

The investigation of Mr. Gribetz began in 1993 as a result of a Federal inquiry into whether gamblers in Rockland County were receiving warnings about police raids. The inquiry soon touched an investigator in Mr. Gribetz's office, and a grand jury began questioning assistants and former assistants in his office, some of whom cooperated, according to James K. Kallstrom, assistant director of the the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York field office.

At a news conference, Ms. White rejected suggestions by some reporters that Mr. Gribetz was treated too leniently. She said that if Mr. Gribetz had been indicted for a felony, "the sentencing guidelines would have been the same." The point, she said, was that "law enforcement in Rockland County can be put back on a regular, stable plain."

Correction: May 5, 1995, Friday

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An ugly story.

LT's & the teen prostitute's lives are in the crapper.

Umm, hers already was. This publicity may actually improve things for her.

As for Snorty the Snowman, I'm glad to see him in deep ****.

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OK, more data coming in...I am telling you, he might not serve time on this,,battery charges dropped, he didnt do it police say, and 3rd degree rape, max penalty 4 years...

Police confirm that Lawrence Taylor faces third-degree rape charges

Posted by Mike Florio on May 6, 2010 3:41 PM ET

As expected, authorities announced earlier in the hour that Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor faces third-degree rape charges in New York after allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old girl. The charge is a felony, and it carries a maximum term of four years.

Ignorance, as police pointed out, is not a defense.

He also was charged with third-degree patronizing of a prostitute, a misdemeanor. Taylor allegedly paid her $300.

The alleged victim was reported to be missing by her family in March 2010.

Authorities said that no drugs were found in the hotel room where the alleged encounter occurred. A bottle of alcohol was found there.

Regarding a report that the girl has a mark on her face suggesting that she had been assaulted, police have stated that the injury was inflicted before her encounter with Taylor. After the encounter, a man named Rasheed Davis returned the girl to New York City.

Taylor currently remains in custody and he will be arraigned soon.

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Just goes to show why you shouldn't convict someone without a fair trial. It's bad enough that this is always the case with public opinion, but geez wait until all the facts are out before hanging him.

I'm not saying what LT did was right, but it went from him violently raping the girl and facing 20 years to life to paying for a prostitute (in which case he most likely didn't know she was underage) and possibly facing no jail time. Pretty ironic. LT is definitely an idiot, but not the monster he was being portrayed initially.

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If he "ordered her" he most likely didn't know she was 15.

I'm guessing he called up an escort, she was underage and he didn't know, then she decided to cash in. However, does a 15 year old girl know who LT is?

Doesn't look good. In the instance above, a DNA test won't do anything to help him.

I think it's a specific intent crime so it doesn't matter if he know or not.

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If he "ordered her" he most likely didn't know she was 15.

I'm guessing he called up an escort, she was underage and he didn't know, then she decided to cash in. However, does a 15 year old girl know who LT is?

Doesn't look good. In the instance above, a DNA test won't do anything to help him.

she didnt cash in,,it looks like she was held by pimp without consent for last couple months and cop report said she secretly called her uncle say where she would be takin in next few hours by pimp,,uncle called cops and when pimp and girl showed up police arrested pimp and THEN girl told police about ole LT sleepin in Ramapo hotel,, before that they thought just a pimp kidnap thing, until they found out she just turned trick and john (lt) still in hotel,,cause of her age, they went to hotel,,,if she was of legal age, i doubt police would have bothered to go back to hotel for john,,karma nailed him this time,,

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so she's a prostitue and decides to text her uncle "hey we might have a big payday on our hands here, guess who I'm in the room with?"

all I'll say is I don't think his lawyer will struggle for a defense strategy

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Unless it comes out that Taylor made a specific request for an underage one, I think Taylor just wanted to pay for some sex and got caught. The law might say it makes no difference but I think intent definitely does.

As for the girl not being a runaway because she texted her uncle, her family life might be horrific and she ran away, but once she got kidnaped by a pimp she might have given in and texted the best one of her family when she got a chance. I would not assume the girl was lying-her story is possible.

Garb is right, though. Even if all Taylor wanted was to pay for sex, with all his money why can't he afford a better class of pimp? What's wrong with him, anyhow?

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Kids should play football. It teaches great lessons about how to live your life.

Unless it comes out that Taylor made a specific request for an underage one, I think Taylor just wanted to pay for some sex and got caught. The law might say it makes no difference but I think intent definitely does.

As for the girl not being a runaway because she texted her uncle, her family life might be horrific and she ran away, but once she got kidnaped by a pimp she might have given in and texted the best one of her family when she got a chance. I would not assume the girl was lying-her story is possible.

Garb is right, though. Even if all Taylor wanted was to pay for sex, with all his money why can't he afford a better class of pimp? What's wrong with him, anyhow?

Exactly. If I was on the jury, I would only find him guilty of the misdemenor for soliciting given the information that has come out.

What I just don't get is why he didn't go to one of the thousands of call girl websites that are out there instead of using a pimp. He could of got exactly what he wanted in very little time. Maybe he's too stupid to use a computer?

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I think it's a specific intent crime so it doesn't matter if he know or not.

Yep. I dealt with one where it was pretty much conceded that the guy met the girl in a club in the City where she had to show ID and took her for a tattoo where she also showed an -evidently fake - license with an age over 18 and the DA refused to drop it or even make much of deal. That was primarily because of the guy's prior RICO record, but still...

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Sad that Taylor, like big Ben think they can have any and all Vajayjay they want....even if its junior high school vajayjay. The hell is he doing in a hotel room with a 16 yr old in the first place?

Most of these celebs are sick, but their the heros though. R. Kelly even taped himself with a minor and STILL got off, that girl was 14. Money buys good lawyers and in some cases pressure on the victim so its all good I guess. Wont be surprised if Taylor serves less then Plaxico.

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Sad that Taylor, like big Ben think they can have any and all Vajayjay they want....even if its junior high school vajayjay. The hell is he doing in a hotel room with a 16 yr old in the first place?

Most of these celebs are sick, but their the heros though. R. Kelly even taped himself with a minor and STILL got off, that girl was 14. Money buys good lawyers and in some cases pressure on the victim so its all good I guess. Wont be surprised if Taylor serves less then Plaxico.

I honestly doubt he serves any real time for this and there is no way he serves Plaxico time for this

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I honestly doubt he serves any real time for this and there is no way he serves Plaxico time for this

You are right...

Plexiglass gets 3 yrs for shooting himself in the leg.

LT shoots his load in a 16 yr old and won't get a day.

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I think it's a specific intent crime so it doesn't matter if he know or not.
In NY, it's a strict liability. Whetehr you knew or not if she is that young youa re guilty. But a jury still could be swayed. But-

One problem-he fired Gribetz and hired Artie Aidala. Artie is a nice enough guy, but many of the things he said today are going to be hard to walk back. The DA doens't have a strong case with the pimp smacking her around and the young lady is probably th kind that looks like 15 going on 35. That's the kind of case DAs will give the store away if Taylor testifies against the pimp. But Artie Aidala said several things today that make that very problematic for a DA to accept. Aidala is on something of a really bad losing streak(lost a case of a child-molesting rabbi in Brooklyn last month that was ugly), and much of what he said today smacks of putting your ego before your clients' best interests.

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In NY, it's a strict liability. Whetehr you knew or not if she is that young youa re guilty. But a jury still could be swayed. But-

One problem-he fired Gribetz and hired Artie Aidala. Artie is a nice enough guy, but many of the things he said today are going to be hard to walk back. The DA doens't have a strong case with the pimp smacking her around and the young lady is probably th kind that looks like 15 going on 35. That's the kind of case DAs will give the store away if Taylor testifies against the pimp. But Artie Aidala said several things today that make that very problematic for a DA to accept. Aidala is on something of a really bad losing streak(lost a case of a child-molesting rabbi in Brooklyn last month that was ugly), and much of what he said today smacks of putting your ego before your clients' best interests.

Yeah, I heard what he said today. IMO it

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