Memoirs of an Accused Madam
In 1992, Vicky Gallas opened escort services in Orlando, Florida. Two years later she became the focus of an intense criminal investigation that resulted in her arrest in late 2001, and subsequent jury trial. With her fighting spirit and her unwillingness to buckle under an unrelenting pattern of intimidation, the author became the only owner of an escort service in the United States brought to trial on organized crime charges and found innocent.
In this hard-hitting memoir, Gallas reveals how racketeering and organized crime charges were brought against her based on evidence so flimsy that agents and prosecutors could not get a wiretap or a warrant to search.
The real story begins in early 1993, with the discovery of blocks on escort service telephone lines in Orlando area resort PBX systems during large convention bookings. The author unknowingly walked into the middle of one of the biggest ongoing conspiracies in US history, and as she discovered, the blocks began in the late 1980s and were not isolated to the Orlando area, but were also transpiring in Las Vegas and later in numerous other US cities. Though there have been civil suits filed in Nevada and federal courts over the blocks by other victims of the conspiracy, to this day the practice has evolved and continues unabated by the powerful group that concocted the conspiracy so long ago. The real story is the relentless pursuit of Vicky Gallas by powerful people with so much to lose if the truth were to be exposed.
For anyone fascinated with the foibles of our criminal justice system, the sensational Orlando connection, and how escort services really work, this is a must-read book.
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