Posted on 06/20/2002 11:54:22 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It turns out that on the morning of September 11, 2001, two FBI agents were monitoring phone calls from the home of a madam of a New Orleans brothel. Yes, the prostitution supervised by one Jeannette Maier so concerned the feds, who suspected it involved drug trafficking and organized crime, that wiretap authority had been duly secured. But with the terrorists attacking back East, the agents shut down the wiretap. They were back listening the next day, and in March a dozen women were indicted on charges including money laundering, racketeering, prostitution and marijuana possession. Last month, Ms. Maier and her mother, Tommie Taylor, pleaded guilty to prostitution conspiracy.
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