A story for the ages.
An award-winning sportswriter has pleaded guilty to running a prostitution operation, saying he needed the extra money to make up for a pay cut because of the downturn in the newspaper business.
Kevin Provencher, 52, Manchester, N. H., admitted in Salem, Mass., Superior Court Friday he recruited and received financial support from prostitutes working out of hotel rooms in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $5,000 on the prostitution charges and also for intimidating one of his hookers from testifying against him.
Reporters have a lot of first hand knowledge on prostitution. They prostitute the truth to please their editors and publishers. I know, been there.
This is news?
MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, etc. have been a’whorin for the Dems for years now!
Dang. That wrongdoing violates the sportswriters creed.
Now that’s dedication. He could have just got another job like everyone else, but no, he chose to risk it all so that he could continue writing for his paper. (Although he was a sports writer, and dumb enough to get caught doing this, so he might not have many transferable skills)
Ahem, The Newspaper Deathwatch” is a real site. I leave more that a few comments on Paul Gillin‘s articles/posts.
While I feel for the guy, (becoming redundant through no fault of your own sucks ass ) why didn’t he try to write a book or something?
Being a procurer of ladies of negotiable affections, as Terry Pratchett refers to these women, has got to be a step down after graduating from J-School.
Writers, prostitution, John C. Dvorak…
Say no more, nudge nudge wink wink!
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So consensual sex between adults is legal… but if money is involved you go to jail. Hooray for the Nanny state.
#7 – I think the problem is that there is a contract, negotiations and a client ends up getting screwed – but no lawyer is involved (unless you are seriously kinky)
8, Nobody,
Ha!
#7,
Not only that, but if you video tape it, it’s not prostitution, it’s now porn, which is legal. Cheers.
#10
Almost right. In pron the actors don’t pay each other. Except Charlie Sheen.
#10 ray I believe LA county was pretty successful running the porn movies out of town by prosecuting for prostitution and pandering.
This does remind me of when I was in college in Raleigh, NC and a statehouse file clerk was arrested for prostitution, with the acts occurring in the statehouse. She said she did it to supplement her $12k a yr salary. This was back in the 80′s.
I know a guy who is a “journalist” in that he writes a blog that was going to be wildly successful but ended up being only a minor success. So to supplement his income, he bought a small bar and staffed it with good lookin’ gals.
Pay the bar a small “bar fine” to compensate for the loss of the young woman’s working time and the girls will be more than happy to go upstairs with you. Not much to do up there so you might be likely to enter an arrangement for other services the young woman might be able to provide. Pay a larger bar fine and the lady might even leave the premises with you for the rest of the night.
Prostitution is NOT legal in Thailand but it is not the big sin it is in other places. No one ever gets busted for it as long as it’s discreet and the cops get their regular monthly “tea” money.
Me? Nope. I gotta a lovely lady pharmacist who helps me pass the time. I do help my friend and his girls by looking after some of their health needs. We keep begging these ladies to use condoms but it seems Australian men (the girls claim) demand bareback rides. The penicillin bills just get higher and higher.
As for this post: I hope the woman in the photo is his lawyer and not his employee…
He looks just like another guy pictured on this site. Can’t remember who it was, but I remember I said he looked like Terry McAuliffe.
and now we know the rest of the story…
Let’s see…. When somebody needs “extra money”, instead of selling some stuff on eBay, or selling your car, or cutting back on the restaurant meals, SOME people naturally start a brothel.
Of course.
I work with “award winning journalists”, and most of them are stunningly stupid.
The source story notes that the guy is “a four-time winner of the New Hampshire Sportswriter of the Year award from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.” Surely he could have parlayed that kind of recognition into a more constructive form of business.
“Creative Writing” Journalist no doubt !!!
Talk about running a sinking operation
Reminds me of management in the auto industy proudly announcing “Boy Did I Get a Deal at X Newspaper” – were the tables over turned on the “experts’ in the negotiation process
Then again eBay just announced final value fees on shipping costs for eBay sellers so has the new industry really learned anything from its whole experience ?
You’d think the Tea Bagger’s would be all over over this. Government regulations interfering with the operation of a small business and all.