If you have read the Michelle Matarazzo plea agreement linked in other Miami Companions posts on this blog, take special note of the very last sentence in the document, and actually in the Sentencing score sheet:
"The government will file a Rule 5K motion based on defendant Michelle Matarazzo's substantial assistance in the investigation and prosecution of others."
Directly above that statement it is noted that Matarazzo will not forfeit any property. So she may avoid all prison time by assisting in the prosecution of others. What a deal!
Note that Laurie Carr's plea agreement has no such statement concerning substantial assistance at the end of the document.
It seems the discrepancy involves Michelle Matarazzo working as an FBI informant long before the arrests in the Miami Companions case. According to an informed source, Matarazzo began working with the FBI as an insider informant back in July 2009, and her "deal" was set in stone long before the owners and others were arrested in the case. She knew of the arrests well in advance.
To conclude here, if you were a client of Miami Companions during their last year in business – when the office manager was working as an FBI informant – well, be concerned. That isn't saying that one calling prior to July 2009 shouldn't also be concerned as there is still the database kept under lock and key by federal prosecutors.
To generalize from an experience standpoint I will say that clients usually have nothing to worry about. In my own case prosecutors had no real interest in identifying clients, and agents broke into my Orlando home while I was not there searching for something – client lists in my opinion – though I do not believe they would have made the information public if it had been found. I feel the break-in was an order to find and dispose of it permanently. I could be incorrect, but then why not just get a court order? Why illegally break-in? There were people in high government positions that feared they were on a list. I did have the second escort service in the world on the internet. (the first was in Seattle).
One must also look at the DC Madam case: Jeane Palfrey attempted to turn 50 lbs. of telephone numbers into a list of names. She thought the government would have reason to back-off when confronted with so many names of people involved in Washington DC politics and the federal government. It was a hand that never paid off and instead they managed to control her agenda by attacking her attorney and getting her to accept government puppet Preston Burton. The client names and numbers were Jeane's exit strategy – she figured that there's no way prosecutors would let it get as far as trial.
Jeane Palfrey counted on a return of her forfeited property and something simple like probation and never really intended to go to trial, but instead the government let a few names come out and buried the rest. Jeane did commit suicide; there was no murder conspiracy. The bottom line is that she played her hand and lost. The government strategy of discrediting her real attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, worked like magic with the help of a few people Jeane perceived to be friends.
It is time to watch and see in the Miami Companions case.
Read Montgomery Blair Sibley's blog here: Amo Probos
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