A couple was arrested last week in Houston and has been charged with running a massive prostitution ring.  There are at least 1500 celebrities, doctors and professional athletes who are probably sweating right about now.  Any hope these clients had of remaining anonymous have been replaced with fears of being charged with engaging in organized crime along with the couple, Charlie and Deborah Turbiville.  Police have the list and are trying to locate the clients.  Not only that, but they have computer hard drives that were seized as

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well as credit card receipts.  Gold bars and over fifty pounds of paperwork are in police custody too.  The gold bars might result in money laundering charges for the Turbiville’s since it’s believed this is how they cleaned the cash.  Their lawyers say they made the $10,000 bail and are now back at home until the 15^th of April, when they’re scheduled to be back in court.

The couple charged their clients $350.00 per hour and had made arrangements with several upscale Houston hotels to provide the rooms.  They carefully chose their call girls and before being considered, these women were required to be college educated and sophisticated. A citywide scandal is being promised by those in the know and their multiple websites have been taken offline.

The call girls were recruited from Craig’s List and investigators are trying to locate them, even though they’re unsure of just how many they’re looking for.  With 1500 men and at least a few hundred call girls to locate and interview, this will be a long investigation.  Message boards are logging hundreds of comments and most in Houston don’t seem to have a problem with it, but they’re certainly curious as to who’s on this list.  The rumors are flying and you can imagine the “evil eye” some Houston husbands are getting from their suspicious wives.  This scandal certainly has the potential of ending more than a few marriages.

If the Turbiville’s are convicted, they’re facing ten years each and fines up to $10,000.  They also have two young children.

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Once again, another of our illustrious politicians has managed to wrangle up a scandal or two. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

This time, the winning state is Florida and the headline-making name is none other than Democrat Tim Mahoney.

Tim Mahoney has defended his actions of paying a woman he’d had an affair with. He says he did nothing illegal. I guess not. Most mistresses are accustomed to being “kept” and there’s nothing illegal about that. The bigger problem is his marriage and whether or not the Mrs. will allow him to continue breathing. Wouldn’t we just love to see one of these wives belly-up and demand a divorce? I would love to see one of them not stand by their husbands as he declares his unending love to “the woman who stood by me no matter what, who I have betrayed in the cruelest ways”, but instead, release her own statement along the lines of, “The arrogance and narcissistic nature of my husband has forced me to make a choice I never dreamed I’d have to. Because he can’t keep the pony in the

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barn, I have chosen to file for divorce.” I know we’ll never live to see a statement like that, but still, their passive and martyred natures are becoming tiresome. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not making light of an incredible difficult position to find yourself in. I know how exhausting and hurtful it can be. And it does go back to these politicians becoming accustomed to people following around in their attempts to be helpful and providing every miniscule request they demand. And too, the wives, once they discover the infidelity, most likely ensure life becomes less than pleasant for these political figures - at least their personal lives at home that are never exposed in the media. That is probably the safest way to ensure it doesn’t become a bigger scandal - the wives probably inflict their cold shoulders and temper tantrums at the one place the media has no access to - which, of course, is their home.

The one winner in this scandal is the former aide whose bank account is now $121,000 to the good. Oh, and lest we forget, Tim Mahoney won his bid after his adamant insistences of returning “morals and family values” to politics. This, of course, was the same position that was open due to Mark Foley’s suggestive and what some insist were sexual text messages to young Washington male pages.

His declaration of having done nothing that violated his office or any laws might be true, but a wise man would think more of the long term consequences of the violations against these morals and family values he hung his promises from.

Need proof that the scandalous political cycle exists? This should provide it.