Every state makes it a crime to intentionally injure someone — like shooting or stabbing them without justification.
That’s why it has long been a crime in most states to intentionally infect someone with a disease — including a sexually transmitted disease (STD). After all, the consequences of an STD can be just as long lasting and deadly as if the perpetrator shot or stabbed the victim.
But apparently the Biden administration disagrees. Led by radical Assistant Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/28/the-justice-departments-lawsuit-against-georgia-is-completely-partisan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kristen Clarke</a>, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is suing Tennessee for attempting to enforce a statute that is designed to protect the public from HIV-positive prostitutes.
According to Clarke and her cronies, Tennessee’s attempt to protect is citizens is actually thinly veiled <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-tennessee-enforcing-state-law-discriminates-against-people-hiv" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discrimination</a> that violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In addition to Clarke, the zealots who filed this lawsuit against Tennessee include Disability Rights Section Chief Rebecca Bond, Deputy Chief Kevin Kijewski, Trial Attorney Stephanie Berger, and Trial Attorney Ali Szemanski. A brief look through their resumes — even those of the lower-ranking trial attorneys — shows that they have worked for various organizations that support the far-Left’s pet projects.
For example, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-berger-914b448" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berger</a> previously spent several years working for the Empire State Pride Agenda, which disbanded after then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order protecting transgender rights. And <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-szemanski-7b448042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Szemanski</a> previously worked or interned for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of Boston, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race &amp; Justice, and the MacArthur Justice Center.
These connections to the radical Left shouldn’t come as a surprise. The politicized and Left-leaning hiring practices within the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have been a <a href="https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2013/s1303.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">long-standing problem</a>. Only a full embrace of the far-Left’s worldview can explain the filing of this otherwise inexplicable lawsuit.
Passed in 1991 at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Tennessee’s <a href="https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/program-areas/39-13-516.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggravated prostitution statute</a> provides that a “person commits aggravated prostitution when, knowing that such person is infected with HIV, the person engages in sexual activity as a business or is an inmate in a house of prostitution or loiters in a public place for the purpose of being hired to engage in sexual activity.” In other words, if a person knows he or she has HIV and engages in prostitution (itself a crime), then that person faces harsher penalties.
According to the Biden Justice Department, however, this is discrimination because it unfairly treats individuals differently based solely on their HIV-positive status and “does not require prosecuting entities to make any individualized determinations in order to achieve a conviction.”
But think that through: It’s not discrimination to prosecute an alcoholic for driving while under the influence. And it’s not discrimination to prosecute a drug addict for possessing or selling drugs. Tennessee isn’t prosecuting and punishing people based on their status but instead is prosecuting and punishing them based on their conduct and the risk of harm that conduct poses to the community. It’s why most states prosecute armed robbery more harshly than unarmed robbery — lawmakers view the former as posing a greater risk, and being more harmful, to the community. The same is true here.
Of course, the Justice Department doesn’t have a sound legal argument against this. They simply allege that since “the passage of Tennessee’s aggravated prostitution statute, there has been significant progress in the understanding of and treatment of HIV.” According to them, “beliefs and assumptions that individuals with HIV will spread it, or that having HIV is a death sentence, are now outdated and unfounded.”
That may well be true, but as that same filing readily admits, that largely depends on following proper protocols for medication and treatment. Furthermore, Tennessee isn’t targeting the HIV population at large — only those who know they are infected and are engaging in the crime of prostitution where the transmission risk is likely much higher than in other settings.
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Why shouldn&#8217;t Tennessee be able to punish criminal conduct with aggravating circumstances such as these more severely? After all, no one is seriously contending that engaging in prostitution while being HIV-positive is less dangerous and less harmful than doing so without.
The Justice Department filing identifies “Complainant A” as one of the “victims” of Tennessee’s supposedly discriminatory law. According to the Justice Department, “Complainant A is a Black transgender woman who lives in Memphis, Tennessee.” This individual had HIV, knew it, and engaged in “prostitution near a church or school.” Tennessee charged this individual with aggravated prostitution, which of course comes with the subsequent sex-offender registration requirements and other collateral consequences.
Because Tennessee simply enforced the law, the Justice Department now says the state discriminated against this individual. In fact, they’re asking the court to prohibit any further enforcement of Tennessee’s aggravated prostitution statute, remove individuals from the sex-offender registry who have been convicted of aggravated prostitution, terminate reporting requirements for individuals on the sex-offender registry who have been convicted of aggravated prostitution, expunge their records, and provide compensatory damages (money!) to Complainant A and others the Justice Department has deemed harmed.
With all the problems facing the Biden administration this year, their dedication to extorting everyday Americans to advance a radical social agenda is astounding. Americans deserve, and should expect, more from a department supposedly dedicated to seeking justice. Enough is enough.
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Zack Smith is a legal fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Author J.K. Rowling lambasted radical trans activists in a lengthy X post on Tuesday, taking particular aim at those who allowed biological women to be used as &#8220;props&#8221; to make excuses for trans-identifying sex offenders.
&#8220;The trans activist outrage that ensues on here whenever I share my belief that jailed women shouldn&#8217;t be used as validation tools or emotional support props for trans-identified male sex offenders is as revealing as it&#8217;s predictable,&#8221; Rowling began.
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The trans activist outrage that ensues on here whenever I share my belief that jailed women shouldn&#39;t be used as validation tools or emotional support props for trans-identified male sex offenders is as revealing as it&#39;s predictable.
Such activists can&#39;t bring themselves to…
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Rowling went on to say that the defense of such predators — trans-identifying males who demand to be housed in women&#8217;s prisons despite records that show them to be a danger to women — was a concerted effort to prevent the breakdown of the defenses offered when trans-identifying men demand access to other women&#8217;s spaces.
&#8220;Such activists can&#8217;t bring themselves to concede that a man who was convicted of harming women/girls ought not to be incarcerated with the demographic to whom he is a proven danger, because if they do, all their stock arguments (&#8216;no sexual predator would bother to pretend to be trans&#8217;, &#8216;no trans woman has ever harmed a woman in a women&#8217;s only space&#8217;, &#8216;there is no danger in making all single sex spaces unisex&#8217;) are exposed as the lies they are,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;If they admit that even a single man isn&#8217;t a woman because he says he is, the entire edifice of gender identity ideology crumbles,&#8221; Rowling continued, noting that once that &#8220;edifice&#8221; begins to crumble, the activists are left with little recourse beyond simply screaming that any detractor must be transphobic.
&#8220;This leaves activists who rely on bullying and slogans with nowhere to go but &#8216;you hate all trans people&#8217;, &#8216;so you&#8217;re saying all trans people are rapists&#8217; and, of course, &#8216;you are causing a trans genocide.&#8217; I think this particular issue also causes conniptions because it threatens the activists&#8217; self image,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;These are people who preen themselves on their kindness and virtue, so acknowledging the truth — that they&#8217;re indifferent to vulnerable women being assaulted or traumatised — threatens the idea they have of themselves.&#8221;
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&#8220;They therefore double down. The prisoners complaining aren&#8217;t really afraid of rape or voyeurism or violence at all, they say. They&#8217;re &#8216;not exactly delicate flowers&#8217;, as one self-identified empath put it. If you support putting violent and sexually predatory men into women&#8217;s prisons, you are knowingly forcing those women to live in fear of, and, in some proven cases, to suffer abuse that many of them will have endured pre-incarceration,&#8221; Rowling concluded. &#8220;You are not kind. You are not righteous. Women have the basic human right not to suffer cruel and unusual punishment.&#8221;

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrest of 26 illegal immigrant sexual predators during a three-day operation in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> last week. 
The operation, carried out by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-los-angeles-arrests-26-convicted-sexual-predators-local-2-day-operation#:~:text=%22The%20outcome%20of%20this%20operation,Los%20Angeles%20FOD%20Thomas%20Giles." target="_blank" rel="noopener">was conducted</a> from December 18-20. The crimes committed by the illegal immigrants included crimes against children by individuals from Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala. 
&#8220;The outcome of this operation exemplifies the professionalism, dedication and commitment of ERO Los Angeles officers to public safety,&#8221; said ERO Los Angeles FOD Thomas Giles. “Removing these individuals and the threats they represent from our communities is our mission, and we will continue to safely and effectively enforce the immigration laws of our nation.&#8221;
The arrests take place as illegal crossings at the border under President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-serious-challenge-illegal-border-crossings-surge-in-november-to-record-high" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continue to set records</a>, including nearly 250,000 crossings in November. CBP numbers <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-november-2023-monthly-update">released last week</a> show that they recorded 242,418 encounters last month, the highest November <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/22/news/242000-migrants-tried-to-cross-into-us-over-southern-border-in-november/">ever</a> and the third highest monthly total overall.
ICE highlighted three individuals taken into custody during the operation, including a 19-year-old from El Salvador convicted of felony sexual forcible oral copulation of a minor over 14 years old and battery by restraint
A 40-year-old from Mexico who was convicted for a felony lewd acts with a child and continuous sexual abuse was also picked up during the operation. A 35-year-old from Guatemala, convicted of felony child molestation in an inhabited dwelling, was also arrested by ICE for removal. 
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ICE noted that in fiscal year 2022, it had arrested 46,396 foreign nationals with criminal history, including  individuals with 8,164 sex and sexual assault offenses. The other crimes included 21,531 assault offenses, 5,554 weapons offenses, 1,501 homicide-related offenses, and 1,114 kidnapping offenses.
Last month, 37-year-old Saulo Cardona Ferreira, an illegal immigrant from Brazil convicted of raping a child, was<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-raped-a-five-year-old-in-brazil-ice-caught-him-in-marthas-vineyard" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> arrested</a> by ICE in Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
“This undocumented Brazilian national represented a significant threat to the inhabitants of Martha’s Vineyard. He sexually assaulted a five-year-old child in his homeland and then ran from authorities when held accountable for his actions,” ICE said in a statement. 
Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have remained high in December, with reporters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbc-reporter-stunned-by-number-of-illegal-border-crossings-crowds-have-never-been-this-large-during-my-reporting">being stunned</a> at the number of people entering into the U.S. through Mexico.

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A federal judge has ordered that documents containing the names of some of the associates of deceased financier and pedophile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeffrey-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein</a> be released in 2024. 
The documents to be released come from a 2017 civil trial brought by Virginia Giuffre, who said that Ghislaine Maxwell facilitated Epstein’s sex trafficking of her. The names of roughly 150 associates are <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-judge-orders-documents-naming-jeffrey-epsteins-associates/story?id=105779882#:~:text=More%20than%20150%20people%20are%20expected%20to%20be%20identified%20in%20early%20January.&amp;text=A%20federal%20judge%20in%20New,scores%20of%20Jeffrey%20Epstein's%20associates." target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected</a> to be revealed, although New York Judge Loretta Preska has given the individuals 14 days to object to the release of their names.
“The Court stays its order for fourteen days to permit any impacted Doe the opportunity to appeal, after which counsel are asked to confer, prepare the documents for unsealing pursuant to this order, and post the documents on the docket,” Preska <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1315.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Monday. 
Preska listed multiple reasons to unseal the documents, including the fact that several individuals whose names have been kept hidden previously gave interviews to the media. Several individuals have not objected to the release of their names, according to Preska’s order. 
The well-connected Epstein died in a Manhattan prison cell in August 2019 awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeffrey-epsteins-ex-girlfriend-ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-to-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> of sex trafficking children. 
The decision to release the documents brought on celebration from some and speculation by others on whose names will be found in the documents. 
“The names of over 170 of Jeffrey Epstein’s high-profile associates are to be released in the first week of 2024,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1737146827185569863" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday in a post on X. “Accountability is coming.”
Blackburn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-blackburn-says-democrat-led-senate-committee-chair-blocked-epstein-flight-logs-subpoena" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has moved</a> in recent weeks to get the Senate Judiciary Committee to subpoena Epstein&#8217;s flight records, but has said that Sen. Dick Durban (D-IL) has so far blocked her. 
It was previously reported that Epstein owned at least three jets, including a Gulfstream II sold in November 2013, a Gulfstream IV sold before his arrest, and a Boeing 727 nicknamed the “Lolita Express,” which allegedly transported prominent individuals and girls all around the world.
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The so-called &#8220;Lolita Express&#8221; private jet has been the subject of controversy amid the accusations brought against Epstein and, in particular, the flight records connected to the plane that supposedly include the names of those who traveled with him.
Victims of Epstein and at least one of his pilots have since come out and claimed that public figures, including Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, and Donald Trump, had traveled with the disgraced financier.

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A former Democrat Maryland mayor who described Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as his &#8220;mentor&#8221; was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday for possessing and distributing child sex abuse material.
Patrick Wojahn was the mayor of College Park and a popular leftist politician until he resigned in March, the day before his arrest on child pornography charges.
College Park is just outside Washington, D.C., and home to the state&#8217;s flagship University of Maryland campus.
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Hey, <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a>… 
Your good pal and mentee just received a 30-year prison sentence over a child p*rn case involving 500 victims.
Any comment? <a href="https://t.co/hB97pHcXcb">pic.twitter.com/hB97pHcXcb</a>
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Wojahn, 48, pled guilty in August to 140 counts related to possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material, court records <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-md-college-park-mayor-patrick-wojahn-child-pornography-sentenced-20231120-bddw33qv5jfrtdv5ax5nquj2bm-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a>. The charges in the indictment <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-wp-md-cr-former-college-park-mayor-indicted-20230330-shji4en24ba6nng52jcuujamza-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> both misdemeanors and felonies, some of which have 10-year maximum penalties.
A Prince George’s County Circuit Court judge officially sentenced him to 150 years behind bars, but she suspended most of that sentence, leaving just 30 years, <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-md-college-park-mayor-patrick-wojahn-child-pornography-sentenced-20231120-bddw33qv5jfrtdv5ax5nquj2bm-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to court records. The suspended sentence means that if Wojahn violates the conditions of his release when he is let out, a judge can lock him up again for 120 years. His sentence also requires him to register as a sex offender and includes five years of supervised probation after his release.
In Maryland, convicts of nonviolent crimes are eligible for parole after serving just 25% of their sentence.
Prince George&#8217;s County officials said they were tipped off to Wojahn&#8217;s crimes in February by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which notified them of a social media account, “skippy_md,” that had uploaded child pornography to the messaging app Kik in January.
Detectives traced the account to Wojahn’s government email address and later searched Wojahn’s home, seizing several electronic devices, including three cell phones.
Police said Wojahn admitted to owning the social media account while being interviewed by detectives during the search of his house.
Authorities found videos and images of more than 500 children on Wojahn’s cellphone, Assistant State’s Attorney Monica Meyers said at a press conference. Detectives and prosecutors identified 52 of the exploited children, and several submitted victim impact statements that prosecutors read aloud in court.
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“It instructs us that child pornography is not simply about images. It’s about the pain behind the images, the tragedies that have occurred in these young people’s lives that should never have happened to them,” said Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy at a news conference after Wojahn&#8217;s sentencing.
“No child deserves to be sexually abused. No child deserves for their images to be displayed on the internet or any platform for hundreds or thousands or possibly millions of people to view,” she said.
Wojahn was serving his second term as mayor of College Park before he was arrested. Before being elected, he served eight years as city councilman. He previously graduated from Georgetown University Law Center.
Several years ago, Wojahn described Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as his &#8220;mentor.&#8221;
“I actually met Mayor Pete Buttigieg shortly after I was elected mayor in 2015,” Wojahn <a href="https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/11/14/re-elected-college-park-mayor-discusses-politics-future-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Washington Blade, an LGBT news site, in 2019. “I went to the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Winter Meeting in D.C. in January and he was assigned to be my buddy.”
“I now serve in a leadership role as vice chair of city livability and bicycling in part due to his mentorship,” Wojahn told the outlet.
Wojahn and Buttigieg are both gay and married to men.
Wojahn has also visited the White House several times since President Biden took office and <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/maryland-mayor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-visited-white-house-at-least-six-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rubbed</a> shoulders with other D.C. political players including then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and former Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez.
He has also <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/maryland-mayor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-visited-white-house-at-least-six-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donated</a> thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and committees.

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Susanna Gibson, a candidate for the Virginia statehouse who solicited money from people online for her to perform sex acts on video with her husband, may have violated Virginia&#8217;s prostitution law, two attorneys in the state told The Daily Wire.
Virginia <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter8/section18.2-346/">law</a> states that &#8220;any person who, for money or its equivalent &#8230; engages in sexual intercourse&#8221; or other sexual acts with another person &#8220;is guilty of prostitution, which is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.&#8221;
Shawn M. Cline, a former prosecutor and defense attorney in Virginia Beach who represents people charged with sex crimes, said in his view it&#8217;s a &#8220;chargeable offense.&#8221;
“The statute is very clear, you cannot for money or its equivalent perform sex acts,&#8221; Cline told The Daily Wire. &#8220;It doesn’t matter who&#8217;s paying for the act, if it&#8217;s an observer or the recipient. You can&#8217;t receive money.”
“It would definitely be a chargeable offense,” Cline said.
In the videos that were initially streamed on Chaturbate, Gibson states that she&#8217;s raising money for a &#8220;good cause,&#8221; and asks viewers to send her &#8220;tokens&#8221; to perform certain sex acts or even to urinate on camera. &#8220;Y’all can watch me pee if you tip me and some tokens,” Gibson can be heard saying in the graphic videos. “Again, I’m raising money for a good cause.”
The website of the law firm <a href="https://vacrimlawyers.com/practice-areas/prostitution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ScrofanoLaw</a>, which defends Virginians charged with sex crimes, says &#8220;Virginia is among the most stringent states when it comes to prosecuting prostitution crimes&#8221; and that &#8220;the definition of prostitution, according to § 18.2-346 of the Virginia Law Code applies to any person who, for money or its equivalent, agrees to participate in sexual acts.&#8221;
Gretchen Taylor Pousson, a former public defender in Virginia who is now a defense attorney with ScrofanoLaw, said she thinks Gibson violated the statute &#8220;because the token would be equivalent to money. And she is actually performing these acts upon another person.&#8221;
In one video, Gibson described a plan to trick hotel employees into seeing her naked against their will, in order to get a sexual thrill for herself and her viewers.
“Tell him I want a bottle and have them bring it into the room and we’ll be naked and they can all watch. It’s gonna be great. I’m definitely a slut,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-susanna-gibson-aka-hotwifeexperience-the-dem-candidate-who-also-has-an-x-rated-chaturbate-profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she said</a>. &#8220;In order to leave the door cracked I need 500 tokens from 10 of y’all. 10. Otherwise not worth it. Don’t get me kicked out from my favorite hotel y’all.”
Pousson said that could violate statutes such as indecent exposure. That statute covers someone who &#8220;intentionally makes an obscene display of her person in any public place or place where others are present.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it would be. It would all depend on how the court determines a &#8216;place where others are present,&#8217; but given that she caused them to come in, I think that could easily be argued by the Commonwealth,&#8221; Pousson told The Daily Wire.
Henrico County Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Shannon L. Taylor, who like Gibson is a Democrat, did not return a request for comment asking if her office was considering charges against Gibson.
Less than twenty minutes after Taylor’s office read The Daily Wire’s email, Gibson&#8217;s attorney, Daniel Watkins, called to say he had learned that The Daily Wire was working on a story through a source he would not disclose. He declined to comment on the record.
Taylor did not respond to a followup request on whether she had alerted Gibson.
The videos she streamed to Chaturbate took place throughout September 2022, shortly after she launched her House of Delegates campaign. The last one on that platform was posted on September 30, meaning the statute of limitations would expire in two weeks.
Gibson has not dropped out of the race since her video exploits were exposed by The Washington Post, The Daily Wire, and other media on Monday. The leader of the Virginia Senate, Democrat L. Louis Lucas, said the behavior by Gibson was all the more reason to give her money — and without evidence, accused Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) of somehow being involved.
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Today Glenn Youngkin’s team leaked videos of <a href="https://twitter.com/SusannaSGibson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SusannaSGibson</a> to try to embarrass and humiliate her and they failed completely. 
Now we are going to make this the biggest fundraising day of her campaign.
Retweet and donate here:<a href="https://t.co/LrP5VhDsb1">https://t.co/LrP5VhDsb1</a>
&mdash; L. Louise Lucas (@SenLouiseLucas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenLouiseLucas/status/1701339502977909062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Many Democrats said that the scandal amounted to nothing precisely because, they asserted, her conduct had not crossed the line of criminality.
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In other news, Susanna Gibson did nothing illegal and Republicans are condoning revenge porn. Also hilarious considering the person they are going to nominate for President was found liable for sexual abuse.
Totally fine for today&#39;s GOP <a href="https://t.co/ssq2OHQHGF">https://t.co/ssq2OHQHGF</a>
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She had consensual sex with her husband. Nothing she did was illegal. What is illegal, on the other hand, is the GOP operative who brought this to your attention in order for you all to disseminate revenge porn. <a href="https://t.co/GAGQM6uq4g">pic.twitter.com/GAGQM6uq4g</a>
&mdash; Maya Contreras (@mayatcontreras) <a href="https://twitter.com/mayatcontreras/status/1701347266546770272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Gibson has called the act of posting the videos she herself posted for the world to see &#8220;an illegal invasion of my privacy.&#8221;
The New York Times characterized it as a &#8220;leak,&#8221; even though news outlets were only informing readers of her conduct, not linking to the videos.
Gibson posted her videos to a site where she had more than 5,700 followers. She said in the videos that she wanted as large of an audience as possible, saying &#8220;And I love that they’re all watching me getting f&#8212;-ed right now and it turns me the hell on&#8230;. Yeah I want to see you on Checkmates too.”
In exchange for her performing specific sex acts, she solicited monetary “tokens” from viewers, where 100 tokens is worth approximately $5. “Y’all can watch me pee if you tip me and some tokens,” she said. “Again, I’m raising money for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-susanna-gibson-aka-hotwifeexperience-the-dem-candidate-who-also-has-an-x-rated-chaturbate-profile">good cause</a>.”
Correspondence viewed by The Daily Wire shows the Associated Press was tipped off about the pornographic content on September 5, but chose not to do anything with the story. It did, however, make Gibson aware of the videos, which she appears to have had taken down in the days after the Associated Press alerted her that they had been discovered.
The outlet did not cover the videos until September 12, after it had already been reported by others.

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A former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-hampshire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Hampshire</a> state representative and the nation’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/first-openly-transgender-rep-in-new-hampshire-arrested-for-stalking-woman-twice-violating-protective-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first</a> transgender-identifying state lawmaker was arrested by police this week and charged for allegedly distributing child pornography. 
Stacie Marie Laughton, a Democrat who previously resigned twice from the New Hampshire state house, is now facing four counts of distributing sexually explicit images of children. Laughton was born Barry Charles Laughton, Jr. 
Nashua Police Department public information officer Sgt. John Cinelli <a href="https://patch.com/new-hampshire/nashua/former-nashua-state-rep-arrested-child-sexual-abuse-image-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that police were called to respond to a juvenile incident on Tuesday and were then told that the former lawmaker had been distributing explicit images. On Thursday, police searched Laughton’s house and arrested him. 
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Former state Rep. Stacie Marie Laughton of Derry, the first openly transgender person elected to the N.H. House of Representatives, was arrested Thursday by Nashua police on charges alleging distribution of child sexual abuse images, officials said. <a href="https://t.co/PvICV9bGnm">https://t.co/PvICV9bGnm</a>
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“They spoke with reporting parties that indicated Laughton distributed sexually explicit images of children,” Cinelli said, according to Patch. “Detectives from the special investigations division were assigned to further the investigation. They applied for and were granted a warrant for Laughton’s arrest.”
Laughton is slated to be arraigned on Friday at the Hillsborough County Superior Court-South.
The 39-year-old has been plagued by repeated legal troubles in the past. In 2008, he was convicted of credit card felony, <a href="https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/former-nashua-state-rep-laughton-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-police-say/article_dba99a47-a8c6-5746-a1cd-75f46a44dffc.html?utm_campaign=blox&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New Hampshire Union-Leader. In 2012, Laughton <a href="https://www.metroweekly.com/2012/11/nationwide-wins-for-state-and/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">became the first</a> transgender-identifying person elected as a state lawmaker, thrilling LGBT activists. 
“I believe that at this point, the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community will hopefully be inspired,&#8221; Laughton <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/new-hampshire-elects-nations-first-trans-lawmaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time. &#8220;My hope is that now maybe we’ll see more people in the community running, maybe for alderman. Maybe in the next election, we’ll have a senator.&#8221;
Shortly after the election, Laughton <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Stacie-Marie_Laughton">stepped down</a> after the credit card fraud allegations came to light. Laughton was later sentenced to six months in jail after reporting a bomb threat to a hospital in 2015. In July 2021, Laughton was<a href="https://patch.com/new-hampshire/nashua/nashua-state-representative-laughton-arrested-again"> arrested</a> for giving police false information. 
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Laughton won election to the state house again in November 2022, only to step down in December after accusations of stalking. Laughton had been arrested on stalking charges twice in 2022, including an incident in September just months before the election. 
“I’m alive, I’m safe, I’m well,” Laughton said in a Facebook video at the time, announcing he was leaving politics. “I’m not suicidal, and just trying to get by every day with what I’ve been dealt. I don’t know what the future holds but I do know this — there’s a lot of good opportunities out there for me to serve, and a lot of good opportunities for me to still stay connected with everyone and I plan to do that.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jp-morgan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JPMorgan Chase</a>, the largest investment bank in the United States, will settle with victims of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeffrey-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein</a>&#8216;s sex trafficking operation for $290 million, according to a tentative agreement. 
The victims had <a href="https://apnews.com/article/jpmorgan-chase-epstein-settlement-ddb90e634536bc1828bf5d05608b39f1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged</a> the bank allowed Epstein, a wealthy financier and convicted pedophile who died in a New York City jail cell in 2019, to facilitate his sex trafficking operation through his accounts and connections at the bank. The precise number of victims involved in the suit remains unclear. 
“The parties in Jane Doe 1 v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. have informed the Court that they have reached an agreement in principle to settle the putative class action lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, which is subject to court approval,” the bank said in a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/12/jpmorgan-reaches-settlement-with-epstein-victim-in-lawsuit.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Monday. 
The bank did not admit any wrongdoing in connection to Epstein, and CEO Jamie Dimon has testified that the bank was in the dark about Epstein’s misdeeds. 
“We all now understand that Epstein’s behavior was monstrous, and we believe this settlement is in the best interest of all parties, especially the survivors, who suffered unimaginable abuse at the hands of this man,” the statement from the bank continued. 
The financial institution has been accused of giving special treatment to Epstein to do business with wealthy individuals in the deceased sexual predator&#8217;s orbit. According to some reports, multiple bank officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jpmorgan-chase-had-deeper-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein-than-previously-acknowledged-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visited</a> Epstein in the years following his first sex offense conviction in 2008. 
Mary Erdoes, a senior lieutenant to veteran JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, visited Epstein’s townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 2011 and 2013, unnamed people familiar with the matter told <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/jpmorgan-jeffrey-epstein-525febe3?mod=hp_lead_pos1">The Wall Street Journal</a>. Erdoes communicated with Epstein via email about a charitable fund JPMorgan Chase was seeking to launch.
John Duffy, who formerly led JPMorgan Chase’s private bank, reportedly visited the townhouse in 2013 for a meeting; despite multiple warnings from compliance officers, the company renewed an authorization one month later, permitting Epstein to borrow funds against his account. Justin Nelson, a banker who worked with Epstein at JPMorgan Chase, traveled to a New Mexico ranch owned by the pedophile in 2016 and participated in a handful of meetings at the Manhattan townhouse between 2014 and 2017.
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JPMorgan Chase added in its Monday statement that it regretted any association with Epstein. 
“Any association with him was a mistake and we regret it. We would never have continued to do business with him if we believed he was using our bank in any way to help commit heinous crimes,” the bank said. 
JPMorgan is facing a similar lawsuit in the Virgin Islands, where it is also under fire over its relationship with Epstein. That trial is set to begin in October. 
Previously, Deutsche Bank, another bank accused of ambivalence to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-bank-will-pay-massive-sum-to-settle-epstein-victim-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settled</a> with several individuals who said they were victims of Epstein’s crimes and other women for $75 million.

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Attorneys for investment bank <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jp-morgan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JPMorgan Chase</a> accused <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic</a> officials in the U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virgin-islands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virgin Islands</a> of engaging in “quid pro quo” relationships with late financier <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/jeffrey-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein</a> in an explosive Tuesday legal filing shared with The Daily Wire.
Lawyers for the U.S. Virgin Islands <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-virgin-islands-sues-major-bank-for-allegedly-turning-blind-eye-to-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase late last year claiming that the financial institution, which worked with Epstein from 1998 to 2013, financially benefited from his underage sex trafficking schemes. The filing from JPMorgan Chase, which is opposed to an attempt from U.S. Virgin Islands attorneys to toss the company’s defenses, alleged that the government of the territory was the entity which “most directly failed to protect public safety” and “most actively facilitated” the criminal activity.
“Epstein could have lived anywhere in the world. He chose USVI,” the document said. “Discovery obtained in this case reveals why. For two decades, Epstein maintained a quid pro quo relationship with USVI’s highest ranking officials.”
Attorneys for the investment bank added that Epstein, who committed suicide in his jail cell in 2019, allegedly granted officials “money, advice, influence and favors” as they provided him with tax incentives, effectively “looking the other way when he walked through USVI airports accompanied by girls and young women.”
The court document accused Stacey Plaskett, the U.S. Virgin Islands non-voting delegate to Congress, of meeting with Epstein in his Manhattan townhouse less than a year before his arrest in 2019. Attorneys added that U.S. Virgin Islands First Lady Cecile De Jongh allegedly helped to foster a political culture in the Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands which “allowed Epstein to remain unchecked in exchange for his sponsorship and financial contributions.”
Lawyers additionally contended that Epstein “exerted influence” over the territory’s attempts to update sex offender penalties in 2011. “Even as to the regulations USVI did enforce, it did so incompetently,” the complaint added. “While the USVI did conduct site visits of Epstein’s residence, those inspections were cursory at best.”
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/epstein-victim-allowed-to-sue-big-banks-for-allegedly-enabling-sex-offender-we-will-leave-no-stone-unturned" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tossed</a> most charges against JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank in the proposed class action lawsuit submitted by officials from the U.S. Virgin Islands and an unnamed Epstein victim. Deutsche Bank <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-bank-will-pay-massive-sum-to-settle-epstein-victim-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> last week to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of failing to recognize the sex trafficking scheme.
JPMorgan Chase continued their relationship with Epstein even after he pleaded guilty to two counts of soliciting prostitution from a teenage girl in 2008.
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The disgraced financier had a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jpmorgan-chase-had-deeper-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein-than-previously-acknowledged-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deeper</a> relationship with employees of the investment bank than the company previously admitted, according to a recent <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/jpmorgan-jeffrey-epstein-525febe3?mod=hp_lead_pos1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Wall Street Journal. Mary Erdoes, a senior lieutenant to veteran JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, visited Epstein’s townhouse in 2011 and 2013, unnamed people familiar with the matter told the outlet, and corresponded with him about a charitable fund JPMorgan Chase was seeking to launch.
John Duffy, who formerly led JPMorgan Chase’s private bank, reportedly visited the townhouse in 2013 for a meeting. The company renewed an authorization one month later, permitting Epstein to borrow funds against his account despite multiple warnings from compliance officers. Justin Nelson, a banker who worked with Epstein at JPMorgan Chase, traveled to a New Mexico ranch owned by the pedophile in 2016 and participated in a handful of meetings at the Manhattan townhouse between 2014 and 2017.

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Virgin Islands Democrats Let Epstein ‘Remain Unchecked,’ Received Money And Favors, JPMorgan Lawyers Allege

Virgin Islands Democrats Let Epstein 'Remain Unchecked,’ Received Money And Favors, JPMorgan Lawyers Allege

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A &#8220;drag mom&#8221; who mentored an 11-year-old at a Satan-themed pub in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oregon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oregon</a> has been sentenced to less than a year in prison for 11 felony child sex crimes.
Kelsey Meta Boren, 31, pled guilty on March 23 to 11 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree. Another charge of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct was dismissed.
She will <a href="https://www.kdrv.com/news/regional/former-elementary-school-staffer-sentenced-for-encouraging-child-sexual-abuse/article_f2405819-6d53-5766-ad3f-b73c7ab8167c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serve</a> 11 months in jail and five years probation. She will need her probation officer&#8217;s permission to have contact with minors, she will be banned from contact with the victim, and she will have to register as a sex offender.
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Boren was <a href="https://www.kdrv.com/news/regional/former-elementary-school-staffer-sentenced-for-encouraging-child-sexual-abuse/article_f2405819-6d53-5766-ad3f-b73c7ab8167c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> back in August after police received tips alleging she was uploading child pornography to the internet, the Lane County Sheriff’s Office in Eugene, Oregon, said.
A sexually explicit image of a girl estimated as 12 or younger was found to have been uploaded multiple times from email accounts that were traced back to Boren, a detective <a href="https://www.kezi.com/news/veneta-elementary-school-staff-member-arrested-accused-of-encouraging-child-sexual-abuse/article_2919dec2-1a77-11ed-9b97-b3aa4e217d9e.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a court document.
At the time, Boren was an instructional assistant in the Fern Ridge School District. After her arrest, she was suspended from her position and barred from school grounds and from having contact with students, the district said.
The sheriff&#8217;s office said no children Boren knew through her job were identified as victims.
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Before her arrest, Boren posted several photos of herself with an 11-year-old girl, a young drag queen called Vanellope MacPherson DuPont, on her Instagram and said she was the child&#8217;s &#8220;drag mom.&#8221;
Boren&#8217;s Instagram handle was &#8220;alwaizcraving.&#8221;
In October, the Satan-themed Old Nick’s Pub in Eugene, Oregon, said it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-bar-to-have-child-drag-queen-perform-this-weekend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosting</a> Vanellope for a drag queen event.
&#8220;Vanellope is here to show you what an 11-year-old drag queen can do,&#8221; a Facebook post by the pub promoting the event read.
&#8220;With all the charm and sweetness of a bowl of sugary cereal, Vanellope is here to brighten up your morning with all her drag talent,&#8221; the post said.
Boren was part of the October event, which happened two months after she was arrested.
About 200 protesters and supporters showed up to the event, some armed with semi-automatic rifles, police said.
Protesters opposing the events carried a sign reading, &#8220;What kind of monster exposes kids to this?&#8221;
Supporters yelled &#8220;go home Nazis&#8221; and had a banner reading &#8220;protect trans youth.&#8221;
Vanellope <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11999861/Drag-mom-mentored-child-drag-queen-jailed-11-felony-child-sex-crimes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> did not end up performing in the event as planned.
However, the pub has also hosted Drag Queen Story Hour events featuring Vanellope, as well as drag burlesque events with adult drag queens that do not include the young performer.
The pub accused critics of sexualizing the child performer and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-bar-to-have-child-drag-queen-perform-this-weekend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> in one Facebook comment, “it all boils down to fundamental misogyny.”
Vanellope&#8217;s family and friends have since released a statement saying the relationship between the child and Boren was &#8220;professional&#8221; only and they only met &#8220;maybe four or five time[s].&#8221;
&#8220;Meta-Boren was not a family friend, nor was she ever a mentor for V in the drag world,&#8221; their statement said. &#8220;They, also, have not had any contact since before covid, and all ties have been severed as of the time of Meta-Boren&#8217;s arrest in August.&#8221;

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‘Drag Mom’ Who Mentored 11-Year-Old At Satan-Themed Pub Sentenced For 11 Child Sex Felonies

'Drag Mom' Who Mentored 11-Year-Old At Satan-Themed Pub Sentenced For 11 Child Sex Felonies

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The owners of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> strip club were arrested this week after it was learned that a 15-year-old girl had been working there.
The Orlando Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation arrested four people, including the owner, general manager, assistant manager, and another manager of the Flash Dancer Orlando strip club, after an investigation found that a 15-year old girl had been working there from 2019 to 2021. The teen allegedly worked for two years at the club without proof of her I.D.
According to an <a href="https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/04/05/4-arrested-accused-of-trafficking-teen-girl-at-orlando-strip-club/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrest affidavit</a> obtained by <a href="https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/4-arrested-after-underage-teen-discovered-working-at-a-florida-strip-club" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local news</a> outlets, the girl had been employed at the establishment since 2019, when she was just 15 years old, without proof of her name or age or a license to work. She reportedly gave a fake birthdate, claiming that she was 20 years old. She said she was working to support her mother, who was unemployed. In addition to working at the strip club, she held other jobs doing hair and nails, and worked at other adult entertainment venues in the area six months earlier, the affidavit said.
Investigators found that strip club employees engaged in sex acts on patrons for tips, including the girl. Surveillance video from March 2021 showed dancers engaging in sex acts at the club. During certain private performances, the general manager of the club was present, and had the “authority to direct or otherwise control” what the dancers did during the private sessions. The owner of the club also placed the girl in prostitution advertisements with her stage name under it, the affidavit adds.
Under Orange County, Florida, code, adult entertainment venues like strip clubs must provide the county sheriff&#8217;s office with an information packet containing documentation for each employee on the first Monday of each month; but according to investigators, the owners of the club provided no documentation for the teenage girl besides a fake date of birth and her name.
“Flash Dancer Orlando has failed, repeatedly, to present to MBI an accurate list of dancers and current workers at the establishment,&#8221; the affidavit reads in part. &#8220;Specifically, in this investigation, Flash Dancer Orlando concealed [the victim’s] work as an adult entertainment dancer, by excluding her from every list sent to MBI, during the time [the victim] spent dancing at the establishment.&#8221;
Deputies with the Orlando MBI were alerted to the case in February 2021, when one deputy noticed a vehicle with no visible tail lights leaving the club. The deputy pulled the car over. The girl was a passenger in the vehicle. During the stop, she gave the deputy her name and an inaccurate birthdate; but the deputy was able to confirm her real date of birth. She was arrested on a juvenile custody order and taken to a local Juvenile Assessment Center.
The owner and the three managers were arrested this week, each charged with one count of human trafficking for commercial sexual activity of a child under 18. If convicted, each count carries a life sentence.
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The arrest comes amidst a mounting effort to ban adult-oriented entertainment like drag shows for children, including in Florida. In February, Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; administration moved to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-admin-moves-to-punish-florida-venue-that-hosted-sexually-explicit-drag-show-open-to-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revoke the liquor license</a> of Orlando Philharmonic Plaza Foundation, a performance art center, after it hosted a &#8220;sexually explicit&#8221; drag show advertised as open to &#8220;all ages,&#8221; despite performers engaging in lewd acts, such as: exposing prosthetic breasts and female genitalia, exposing the buttocks of performers, simulated masturbation, and sexually explicit children’s Christmas songs like “Screwdolph the Red-Nippled Reindeer.”

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Strip Club Owners Face Life In Prison After Employing Underage Girl For Years

Strip Club Owners Face Life In Prison After Allowing Underage Girl To Work There Without Checking I.D.

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Disgraced Hollywood film producer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvey-weinstein">Harvey Weinstein</a>, 70, was just sentenced to 16 years in prison, making it all but certain that he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars.
The latest sentencing decision was handed down in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Los Angeles</a> Thursday morning, nearly two months after he was found guilty of three counts of rape and sexual assault, per <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-los-angeles-prison-term-1235531069/">Variety</a>. Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year sentence in New York following convictions for rape and sexual assault from a 2020 guilty conviction. 
His most recent convictions stem from an accuser referred to as Jane Doe #1, a European model who testified she was raped by Weinstein at Mr. C Hotel after the L.A. Italia Film Festival in 2013. 
Jurors determined Weinstein was guilty of forcible rape and other charges relating to Jane Doe #1, not guilty of sexual battery for Jane Doe #3, and came back with a hung jury for counts related to Jane Doe #2 and California’s first lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
Weinstein was also acquitted of a sexual battery allegation made by another woman, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disgraced-movie-mogul-harvey-weinstein-found-guilty-of-rape-in-los-angeles-trial">reported</a>. Jurors reached the verdict after nearly 41 hours of deliberations over 10 days in December 2022. The film producer pleaded not guilty on all seven counts. He was facing up to 24 additional years in prison.
Meanwhile, Weinstein’s lawyers have been fighting to get their client a new trial and a new jury from his 2020 sex crimes conviction. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/courts">New York’s Court of Appeals</a> agreed to hear Weinstein’s appeal.
Prosecutors argued that Weinstein was a sexual predator who wielded his power over women while the film producer’s defense team countered that the women engaged in “transactional sex” to establish their Hollywood careers and did so willingly. 
Weinstein was originally a kingpin of the entertainment industry and is the co-founder of Miramax. His legend status fell apart in 2017 when more and more women came forward to accuse the producer of sexual misconduct in what would later become the beginning of the #MeToo movement. The story of Weinstein’s rise and downfall was even turned into a movie, “She Said” (2022). 
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To date, more than 100 women have accused Weinstein of various sex crimes. The former entertainment mogul denies that the sexual acts were non-consensual and maintains that his accusers were seeking to advance their positions in the entertainment industry.

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