2nd Academic Arrested in Prostitution Ring

harvey007

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Thu Jun-23-11 10:16 PM
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2nd Academic Arrested in Prostitution Ring

Source: New York Times

PHOENIX — The police in New Mexico made another arrest on Thursday in their investigation of an online prostitution ring said to be run by a New Jersey college professor, taking into custody another academic who is a past president of the University of New Mexico.

F. Chris Garcia, 71, a professor of political science at the University of New Mexico who served as its president from 2002 to 2003, was charged with promoting prostitution, conspiracy and tampering with evidence.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/us/24prostitution.html

Albuquerque TV report on the arrest:
http://www.koat.com/news/28335543/detail.html

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dkf

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Thu Jun-23-11 10:23 PM
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1. Do they pay professors that badly nowadays?

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Hissyspit

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Thu Jun-23-11 10:30 PM
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3. They do me.

But I'm not running any prostitution rings, regardless.

This is just weird.

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Hissyspit

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Thu Jun-23-11 10:29 PM
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2. Delete nt

Edited on Thu Jun-23-11 10:29 PM by Hissyspit

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PoliticAverse

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Thu Jun-23-11 10:43 PM
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4. Too bad he wasn't a sociology professor he could claim it was a research project. n/t

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rayofreason

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Thu Jun-23-11 10:54 PM
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5. Holy Shit!!!!

This guy was the PAST PRESIDENT of the University of New Mexico!!!!!

Now, I think that prostitution should be legalized and regulated, but until the day it is you take a big legal risk running a site like this. And for a prominent person, someone who might be recognized and is known to many, to help recruit new talent to the enterprise just boggles the imagination.

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mackerel

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Thu Jun-23-11 11:01 PM
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6. Professors may not get paid well but University Presidents get

paid very well and have excellent benefits.

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rayofreason

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Thu Jun-23-11 11:04 PM
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7. I suspect...

...that money had nothing to do with it. It was the little head thinking.

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caseymoz

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Fri Jun-24-11 12:15 AM
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8. I'm think it was a little head-big head collaboration.

Obviously these professors had no moral problem with prostitution. They weren't like someone who grew up criminal and went into pimping as one part of criminal activity.

The "promoting prostitution" charges are interesting. I've always wondered how that could work under the First Amendment. Since sex is legal, commerce is legal, but the combination of the two are not. Apparently speech about selling sex is illegal as well. If the speech were just about commerce or about sex, it would be protected.

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somone

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Fri Jun-24-11 12:31 AM
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9. Legalize it, regulate it, and tax it

like in Nevada. Problem solved.

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trud

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Fri Jun-24-11 01:52 AM
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10. where's madfloridian

I'm sure she'll have something to say about this.

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