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...blockmates or posting it on the Microfridge. But I won't believe you until I see you out there, admiring the view from Roxbury, walking across Longfellow Bridge, and finding the best calamari in the North End. If this week you are going to tell strangers in Atlanta or Athens you "go to school in Boston," you need the knowledge to prove...
Pimps aren't generally known by their given names, and the 14 alleged flesh peddlers arrested in Atlanta last January were no exception. Law-enforcement officers hauled in "Playboy," "Worm" and "Poochie," among others. But while the suspects were busy being charged with 226 federal crimes in one of the biggest strikes ever against purveyors of underage prostitutes, they were most curious about a name most of them had never heard before. "Who," they asked, "is RICO...
RICO isn't a person but a law--the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. It is most frequently used to combat organized crime, but thanks to the creativity and determination of Richard Deane, the U.S. Attorney for Georgia's northern district, Atlanta's pimps became the nation's first to be charged under RICO statutes. Last August, members of Deane's community-resource team reported that local girls as young as 10 were being lured into prostitution. Most U.S. Attorneys leave such seemingly unglamorous crimes to local police, but in this case, police were discouraged...
Deane dispatched a team of investigators to "the Track," a section of Atlanta's notorious Metropolitan Parkway, to do some digging. They soon discovered that the pimps specializing in underage girls weren't just independent street-corner operators but a loose organization that worked like a cartel. According to the government's indictment, the pimps relied on each other for condoms and drugs, routinely traded girls and even collaborated on professionally produced training films for fellow pimps and their young prostitutes, with such titles as Really Really Pimping in Da South and Pimpology. They also equipped their charges with fake...
...convicted, the Atlanta suspects face 10 to 20 years of jail time. Using RICO, Deane has also confiscated several of the pimps' luxury cars, and hopes to seize $14 million in illegally obtained assets. Not bad for an unglamorous local crime...