Adult Business Across State Lines

I have always stated that there's never a reason to operate in more than one state when in the escort business, whether you are doing anything illegal or not. The point is that you never want the feds to have any interest in your business. If any were interested in my businesses of past it was only because the MBI offered false information to elicit federal help, and there was nothing to charge me with anyway.


To shed some light on the topic of operating across state lines I will be posting information on little known cases. The first discussion concerns federal indictments in the Middle District of Pennsylvania:

According to indictments, Roger Sedlak, Marianna Sedlak, and Kelli Kaylor each were charged with three crimes in March of 2009: transporting and causing the transportation in interstate commerce of an individual with the intent that the individual engage in prostitution, persuading and enticing an individual to engage in interstate travel for the purpose of prostitution, and conspiracy to commit those offenses. In simple terms, they are accused of operating a multi-state internet-based prostitution ring and each has a total of 18 counts.

I checked in the file on PACER and must conclude that there is at least one informant involved. After looking through so many files over a lengthy period of time it is a trend that is easily recognizable to me. Poor Roger Sedlak is stuck representing himself (pro se) at this point. By the looks of it he went through a couple of attorneys before making this move, and has actually been refused by the judge – they don't seem to appreciate his pro se filing frenzy so he was appointed an attorney. Most entries in this file are restricted at this point and cannot be viewed by the public, though it looks like Roger has been denied a speedy trial under the Speedy Trial Act - a potential reason for appeal if he is convicted.

The Case No. is: 1:09-cr-00079-WWC-1. I don't want to say much more about this case as it looks like Roger Sedlak is fighting for his life. Each defendant in this case faces up to 35 years in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. I intend to keep an eye on this case, but it doesn't look like a trial is scheduled anytime soon. Clearly they expected Roger to make a plea deal and aren't reacting well to his obvious intention to fight.