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Woman Gets Probation in (Senator)Stabenow Spouse Sex Case
My Fox Detroit.Com ^ | August 12, 2008 | Fox News 2 Staff, Taryn Asher

Posted on 08/13/2008 10:05:13 AM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer

TROY, Mich. (AP) -- A woman accused of having a paid sexual tryst with the husband of Michigan U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow has been sentenced to probation on a lesser charge.

Alycia Martin was sentenced Tuesday to six months’ probation. The 21-year-old’s record will be expunged if she successfully completes her sentence.

Prosecutors dropped a prostitution charge against the Westland woman in June. She pleaded guilty to trespassing.

Investigators conducting surveillance Feb. 26 at a Troy hotel stopped then-46-year-old Thomas Athans. They say Stabenow’s husband acknowledged meeting Martin through the Internet and paying her $150 for sex.

Authorities didn’t charge Athans.

Martin told the Detroit Free Press she’s glad the case is behind her.

Click on the video link below to watch Taryn Asher's report

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=7192788&version=1&locale=EN-US


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 110th; alyciamartin; athans; corruptdems; debbiestabenow; frankcusumano; mi2008; stabenow; thomasathans
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To: Malsua

i did think he looked a bit younger but wonder if he would look as young without the rather obvious rug he is sporting.


21 posted on 08/13/2008 10:47:02 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Westlander

That is the funniest thing I’ve read on FR in a week. LMAO!


22 posted on 08/13/2008 10:47:21 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("You don't eat meat, and drive electrical cars. Ur so gay, you don't even like boys.")
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To: CholeraJoe; Westlander

leave it to you to laugh at that! ; )


23 posted on 08/13/2008 10:49:37 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Mr. Cow must live in Edward’s America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Athans

Thomas Athans, the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and cofounder of a liberal talk radio network, told Troy police detectives that he paid a prostitute $150 for sex at a Troy hotel in late February, according to a police report obtained Wednesday by the Free Press under the Freedom of Information Act. Athans, 46, was not arrested or charged, but agreed to fully cooperate with police in their investigation of Internet-based prostitution at hotels in the city, according to the report. Athans was pulled over by police on I-75 minutes after leaving the Residence Inn on Livernois, just east of I-75 and south of Big Beaver, the evening of Feb. 26. He was driving a Cadillac DeVille registered jointly to him and Stabenow at their address in Lansing. He was ticketed for driving on a suspended license. When questioned during the stop, he acknowledged he had been at the hotel with a woman he met on the Internet. On further questioning, he acknowledged he had paid the woman $150 for oral sex.


24 posted on 08/13/2008 10:52:16 AM PDT by maggief
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To: HamiltonJay

She just has a receding hairline.


25 posted on 08/13/2008 10:53:06 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: maggief

okay she’s 58, he’s 46, there is a big age diff, but he is no prize AND an adulterous lout to boot. they probably deserve each other.


26 posted on 08/13/2008 10:55:34 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: maggief

he is the second mr stabenow, she married him in 2003, he knew what he was marrying 5 years ago, not like she went to pot overnight or anything!


27 posted on 08/13/2008 10:57:05 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: WmShirerAdmirer

Sorry, but the judgement in the message was “INNOCENT” based purely on her looks, and I was responding to that.

I have not made any judgement of her as a human being, she could be a saint for all I know or care.

I bear her no ill will, and I have no doubt she’ll be able to meet Mr right for her someday.


28 posted on 08/13/2008 10:57:55 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: WmShirerAdmirer
he wasn't arrested or charged. Why?

IIRC he agreed to testify. Also, sentences for this tend to be light just about everywhere.

29 posted on 08/13/2008 10:59:22 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: xsmommy

30 posted on 08/13/2008 11:01:24 AM PDT by maggief
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To: xsmommy

I’m amazed you know about bukkake.


31 posted on 08/13/2008 11:02:18 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("You don't eat meat, and drive electrical cars. Ur so gay, you don't even like boys.")
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To: HamiltonJay

...”could land a C130 on that forehead.”

A keeper...


32 posted on 08/13/2008 11:05:58 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: CholeraJoe

well clearly i learned what it was on FR, which “enriches” my life immeasurably on things i would never have heard of otherwise!


33 posted on 08/13/2008 11:06:35 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Mashood

see http://www.alyciamartin.blogspot.com/ for her transformation, it’s remarkable!


34 posted on 08/13/2008 11:08:49 AM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
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To: HamiltonJay

My apologies, I misunderstood you.


35 posted on 08/13/2008 11:15:27 AM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
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To: maggief

From L to R.

Guilty.

Not Guilty.


36 posted on 08/13/2008 11:59:27 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

Why is it that we have laws? Seriously, what's the point???

37 posted on 08/13/2008 12:14:21 PM PDT by grellis (By order of the Ingham County Sheriff this tag has been seized for nonpayment of taxes)
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To: swain_forkbeard

I’m sorry, but clearly not guilty.


38 posted on 08/13/2008 6:38:50 PM PDT by BobL (http://www.brusselsjournal.com/blog/4556 (here is where the real Europe is going))
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To: WmShirerAdmirer; grellis

Thanks for posting the link to her blogspot. Hooray Alycia Martin for trying to turn your life around! Thanks to all of her supporters, family, friends and attorney and his wife...who are trying to help her.

Tom Athans should’ve known better, but I hope that he can turn his life around, also.


39 posted on 08/13/2008 9:27:09 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: grellis
Why is it that we have laws? Seriously, what's the point???

Great question, grellis. It sure seems like selective enforcement of laws. Too much discretion given in plea bargaining & sentencing.

Thanks for all of your pings.

40 posted on 08/13/2008 9:31:52 PM PDT by PGalt
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