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Allen Gwinn 2007-11-18 20:32

by Travis Reed, AP

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- For years, the back pages of the Orlando Weekly were filled with ads for naughty nurses, sultry coeds and girls with come-hither names like "Rush" and "Roxie."

But the saucy escort-service advertising came to a halt last month.

Vice squad officers arrested three of the paper's advertising sales reps in a sting operation and secured an extraordinary racketeering indictment against the Weekly, accusing it of knowingly profiting from prostitution.

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RecentCoin 2007-12-03 12:23

Wow! That sounds like the Dallas Observer...

http://dallas.backpage.com/gyrobase/classifieds/index

All sorts of stuff for sale there, even on line.

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Allen Gwinn 2007-12-05 21:23

The question is: is this a gross over-stepping of the boundaries of law enforcement? It will be interesting to see what happens when this is challenged on constitutional grounds (ala "freedom of the press").

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