A Closer Look at Sex Trafficking Indictments

It is truly hard to believe that feds in the Southern District of New York cooked-up the entire scheme in the sex trafficking indictments of alleged Gambino Family members, but the yarn is beginning to unravel in this direction. One fallen informant with pending criminal charges in an unrelated case plus overzealous agents and prosecutors equals a show trial garnished with public support due to the involvement of a minor.

First I must apologize for ever thinking it could be anything except a scheme engineered by an informant, agents, and federal prosecutors. The feds were adamant that they "had the goods" in hundreds of hours of recorded conversations, but according to Jerry Capeci, it looks like the only one involved in the sex trafficking of a 15 year-old was the informant. The next question is, of course, did federal agents know that their disgusting rat was pimping a 15 year-old?

I would have believed that two or three of the fourteen defendants had to have knowledge for there to be indictments, but it doesn't look that way at all. This is the statement released by the FBI in relation to the sex trafficking charges:

OREFICE, DIFIORE, MANZELLA, SCOTTO, EISLER, MAIURRO, and PORCELLI are charged with sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a minor. From 2008 to 2009, the defendants operated a prostitution business where young women and girls—including an underage girl who was 15 years old at the time—were exploited and sold for sex. The defendants first recruited various young women and girls—ages 15 through 19—to work as prostitutes. The defendants then advertised the prostitution business on Craigslist and other websites. The defendants drove the women to appointments in Manhattan, Brooklyn, New Jersey, and Staten Island to have sex with clients. The defendants then took approximately 50 percent of the money paid to the young women. The defendants also made the women available for sex to gamblers at a weekly, high-stakes poker games that OREFICE and his crew ran.

Would you believe, from reading that statement, Porcelli refused to answer the informant's Craigslist line and returned his phone? Not only is she not a madam, as alleged, she didn't want anything to do with the informant or his operation. It was all the informant's operation! No telling what extent this dirtbag informant went to in his attempt to involve anyone and everyone in the mess.

Informants and Snakes are one and the same. I have had to learn the hard way that they are capable of absolutely anything. This should make anyone doubt the rest of the indictment as well. As usual it is create a case.