Surely you recall the Desert Divas. That's the ultra expensive VIP Prostitution ring that police busted last year.
Back in February, it looked like the case was going to break wide open...Prosecutors were naming names
Today, Phoenix police offered to the media a list of thousands of names in two hefty PDF documents.
Unfortunately, the list was a bust...so to speak. Prosecutors did indeed name names, but they didn't provide addresses. That meant that none of us had any idea if "John Smith" was THE John Smith that you know from the office, or tennis, or church. Without the addresses, the list was essentially meaningless.
So I went to Phoenix Police and said I wanted the whole list....you could hear the laughter from quite a distance. Every media outlet in the state wanted the full list and Phoenix PD wasn't going to provide it.
I pointed out that the clients on the list were neither victims or witnesses and that the record was obviously public.
The Phoenix PIO who called back, said simply, "Good Luck".
After a few months of dead ends, I finally went to my Secret Weapon--Sal DiCiccio. Councilman DiCiccio thinks that if information is public that it should actually be available to...you know...the public. DiCiccio sent his right hand guy, former Tribune writer Hal DeKeyser to take care of it and by golly, they stone walled him too...but persistence pays off.
I got a call last week that the list was available on CD. Well, you are the public too, So here's your copy.
(The fun part is the special request section. I didn't realize that people actually paid extra for "Ghetto Booty." Go Figure.)
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