Sex Scandal Rocks Montana Town Businessman Alleged To Have Paid Women More Than $1 Million

Washington Post ^ | 15AUG04 | Blaine Harden

[familyop]

KALISPELL, Mont. -- Until he was arrested this year in his underwear in a motel room with a nearly naked young woman who was behind in her payments to his finance company, no businessman in this town was more respected than Richard A. Dasen Sr.

[MedicalMess]

"Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that he paid more than $1 million over the past decade to have sex with young women, many of whom were addicted to drugs and in debt to him, according to court documents.

Asked by police how many women were involved, Dasen said there had been too many to count.

He also apparently lost count, police say, of how much money he paid these women.

Investigators counting his checks — he paid by check, in amounts between $1,000 and $6,000 per encounter, sometimes as much as $130,000 a month — now estimate that Dasen spent at least $5 million, said Charles Harball, the city attorney. "


This is absolutely criminal. He paid way over the present going rate for full sex which is $20 to $30 with a drug addicted female! ;>)

[MARTIAL MONK]

Women who do meth look horrible

Not necessarily. I've watched enough small towns "go meth" and the first indication is seeing the young girls that you would classify as very pretty isolating themselves in a group around a male source of meth. They are pretty but because of the personality changes you would not call them attractive. "Party girls" would be descriptive.

Hard core users may end up as you describe but most don't. I know of a situation right now (and I saw them all today) of three girls trading sex and delivery services for meth. One would almost be beautiful, one comely, and one butt ugly. Meth is so wide spread that you can't rely on generalizations.

[biff]

As we say down here in Texas ---- Split tail

[BigSkyFreeper]

From the Kalispell Daily Interlake (Link opens in new window)

[ValerieUSA]

In the small town I used to live in the meth heads were not young people, but 40 somethings usually. They neglected their kids, lost work, and aged before your eyes. Most of the meth arrests there involved parents between the ages of 38 and 48, a couple of friends and then one teenager - usually the son of one of the other older suspects. It was a pattern.

[JerseyHighlander]

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[conservative in nyc]

Investigators counting his checks — he paid by check, in amounts between $1,000 and $6,000 per encounter, sometimes as much as $130,000 a month — now estimate that Dasen spent at least $5 million, said Charles Harball, the city attorney

Dasen shouldn't have been paying meth addicts for sex. But if he did, he should have learned from Jerry Springer --- NEVER pay a prostitute with a check.

[MARTIAL MONK]

I can't disagree that meth is heavy among working class thirty-somethings, usually the ones with previous drug experience, but from what I've seen it starts with younger people and spreads upward. The meth world is a Twilight Zone. A closed society within a society.

I remember being in a restaurant once talking to a young girl (20 or so) who I knew to be a meth user. She kept staring at a guy who was making a delivery across the street saying "I know that guy. I know that guy from somewhere but I can't place him." After about ten minutes of this, her face lit up and she said "I know. That's Bob. I used to sleep with him when I was in _____" I was floored, but that's the meth world.

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[BobS]

Too much screwin' around goin' on out thea.

[Jeff Gordon]

Sex is a dangerous thing

but it is a lot of fun.

[AmericaUnited]

Investigators counting his checks -- he paid by check, in amounts of $1,000 to $6,000 per encounter, sometimes as much as $130,000 a month -- now estimate that Dasen spent at least $5 million, said Charles Harball, the city attorney.

Wow! Marrying even a "super high maintenance" wife would have been cheaper.

[MarkL]

What ever happened to the saying, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" It seems that this guy was trying to buy the entire farm!

Mark

[Vigilanteman]

Marrying even a "super high maintenance" wife would have been cheaper.

Yeah, but he wouldn't have gotten laid.

[DB]

We live in a country where people are free to make complete asses of themselves and many do.

I don't believe this guy's action are the norm.

I think the guy should be given a one way trip to prison.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

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[The_Media_never_lie]

Sex will drive some men over a cliff. A powerful addiction it is.

If it was not such a powerful addiction, there would not be nearly so many people on thi s planet.

[Jumpmaster]

From the excerpt, it sounds like it was HIS money. He wasn't putting them on his payroll. If he was a Dem, this would just be about sex, a private matter, move on.

[I got the rope]

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[Ditter]

You are right about small town people knowing everything that is going on in their town. That is what they live for, that is the reason they get up in the morning. It doesn't matter if they know the person personaly or not, it doesn't even matter if it is true.