Football Team-Owning Buddy of Jon Busted for Prostitution

He's been a widower since 2011, and dated a now 39-year-old whose two-year-old she claims is not the father. It isn't as though he was caught picking up someone on the street, but if they've got video evidence, it's best that he quietly pay his fine and go home. And why didn't Mr. Kraft himself issue the categorical denial -- because it could be held against him in court of law?

Two New England-based billionaires who can't afford high-end prostitutes patronizing the same spa? There has to be more to this than meets the eye.
What's with this fancy-schmancy customer base?
Well, that's a relief -- at least they weren't snobs about it.

A very, uh, detailed police report has been released, and all I can say is that his defense of having done nothing illegal seems to be based on, uh, no female naughty bits actually being involved:

https://www.scribd.com/document/4004...t-Robert-Kraft

You'd think an attorney could cite the highest office in US government, and call it the Clinton defense. Unfortunately for Kraft, the Florida Statute is more specific in defining "sexual activity" and eliminates that as an option.

What confuses me is, according to this, he's being charged with (2)(e) offering to commit prostitution... not soliciting, as reported in the press, which means the worst that he's facing is a max 60-day and/or a max $$500 fine, which is the same for (2)(e) and (f). The mandatory educational program and 100 hours of community service, plus a $5000 civil penalty is only considered for (2)(f) Soliciting.


(I guess they figure the pros don't need to know about the negative effects of prostitution and human trafficking; and if the johns can afford to pay for sex, they can afford to support drug programs and safe houses.)

According to the Charge section of pages 1 and 3 of the report, the charge is 796.07(5)(a)1, "soliciting another to commit prostitution", a misdemeanor with the penalty being up to 1 year in jail, 1 year on probation, and a $1,000 fine.

Also, keep in mind that he went back there a second time, so if he didn't know what was going on, he should have. I don't believe his two counts makes him a second offender (a felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison, 5 years on probation, and a $5,000 fine). But the judge could decide to sentence Kraft consecutively instead of concurrently, which is why OJ Simpson had to serve a minimum of 9 years instead as little as four.

Thanks for clearing that up for me. I've never seen a police report and I didn't pay attention to all the little boxes because I thought that was just demographic information. The narratives ended with the officer's notes about probable cause, so I was going by that.

I wondered why the reporters kept consistently saying soliciting; and now I know. I still don't understand why the officer said there was probable cause for the offer to commit prostitution, instead of soliciting; but that's not important now.

Thanks, ma'am!

Kraft has formally entered a plea of not guilty, and a request for a non-jury trial: only the judge will hear any testimony.

And speaking of embarrassing situations for major league sports executives, the CEO of a baseball team was filmed strong-arming his wife, causing the chair she was in to tip over -- which he, then she, blamed on her recently injured foot.

Patriots owner Kraft offered plea deal in prostitution case
And it's not hard to figure out why -- it's NOT a plea deal.

A plea deal is when you're "rewarded" with less punishment in exchange for pleading guilty to either lesser charges ("We'll let you plead guilty to loitering instead of soliciting prostitution") or fewer charges ("We'll let you plead guilty to one count of soliciting prostitution instead of two"). Removing the possibility of jail and/or probation -- or deleting the charges from their criminal records -- AFTER successful completion the diversion program would be legitimate plea deal offers. But even they would require a plea to some degree of guilt, not a "concession" to it.

If this is the prosecution's idea of a plea deal, they must WANT to take everyone to trial.

He's sorry? I thought he said he hadn't done anything illegal. Nonetheless, it sounds like Team Crafty have finalized their legal game plan:
They're going "The OJ Way" -- trying to put the investigation on trial? But the investigation was national, not state-level in origin, and for the "serious felony" of international human trafficking, which just happens consist of state-level acts of prostitution.

Since this was released two days too late to be considered an attempt at an April Fools' Day joke, Kraft's lawyers might have to settle for a Big LOL Award, LOL!

Well, the world will be a safer place -- for the rest of the month, at least:
Well, duh dot com: the closest it should to come to being publicly broadcast is in the courtroom during the trial if cameras are allowed.

Except for the part with him in it, of course...