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| Subject: Rights violation: Bail bid denied for 'flight risk' madam Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:17 am | |
| A suburban mother accused of moonlighting as a multimillion-dollar Manhattan madam was so keen to avoid legal trouble that she left the United States for Canada within an hour of hearing about an earlier prostitution investigation, prosecutors say.
Prosecutors mentioned the hasty 2008 departure as Anna Gristina made her latest of several bids to get her $US2 million ($1.94 million) bond reduced in a New York court. A judge turned her down, saying another jurist had acted rationally in setting the amount. Defence lawyer Gary Greenwald said he planned to appeal.
Gristina, 44, has been held since her February arrest. Prosecutors say she ran a pricey prostitution service for 15 years and claimed to have law-enforcement connections who could give her a heads-up if legal trouble loomed. Her lawyers say she was simply trying to start a legitimate dating service.
While prosecutors have previously cited Gristina's 2008 Montreal trip in arguing that she's a flight risk, they shed new light in court papers and remarks on Monday.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/bail-bid-denied-for-flight-risk-madam-20120410-1wmic.html#ixzz1rioOr6xk
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