The Nassau County District Attorney's office released a list
of 104 men — including finance honchos, lawyers, doctors and dentists — who
solicited undercover officers posing as hookers during a roughly one-month
sting operation, officials announced today.
Conducted between April 18 and May 24, "Operation Flush
the Johns" posted four ads on the Web site backpage.com — one that offered
a man to pleasure women, one that offered male to male sex and two others that
offered women to please men.
Those caught in the sting — aged between 17 to 79 — were all
men with the vast majority responding to the ads that offered female company.
Nassau cops said that those busted included lawyers,
doctors, dentists, engineers, college professors, college students, a teacher
and a stockbroker.
The johns would agree to meet with the undercover officers
to meet a specific hotel that would be wired with surveillance cameras, said DA
spokesman John Byrne.
Once the johns clearly offered up money in exchange for sex,
officers would enter the room and make the arrest.
Byrne said the DA's office has been flooded with panicked
calls from johns and their lawyers begging them to not post the damning names
and pictures.
A total of 79 of those arrested were from Nassau County
while 25 came from other areas.
Byrne said the operation began after local police received
several complaints about spiking crime around county hotels.
All of the suspects have been arraigned and have pleaded not
guilty to misdemeanor patronizing prostitute raps.They face up to a year in
jail if convicted of the charge.
Nassau DA Kathleen Rice said she had no sympathy for the
busted pervs.
"Actually, they've been given a pass for far too
long," she said.
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