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American Extorted & Held Hostage In Dominican Prison | Locked Up Abroad
13 Feb 2025
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A Long Island man is behind bars in a Caribbean prison. Now I had to plead guilty because I thought I was getting a deal, right? So I plead guilty. I'm approaching $200,000 with this. I don't know if they're going to give me 20 years. I don't know. When I was about 19, I started working for this company, and they produced conventions and trade shows.
And both my parents are business owners, so I came from a business household. So it was right around the time of 9-11, you know? So I worked for them for about six months or eight months, whatever it may be. 9-11 happened. And I wasn't directly affected by 9-11 because I didn't know anybody in the towers, but we wanted to go home.
It was kind of like that whole thing where you just want to be with your family, especially if you're from New York. It was a very weird time. So I leave the industry, and I become a stockbroker, and I do that whole thing. But I always wanted to get back into it. So I'm sitting years later, I'm sitting with one of my clients who is local, and
And I'm sitting at the table with him, and we're talking, and I'm doing really, really well. I have my own shop, and I'm making like $300,000, $400,000 a year. I'm doing really well. And I'm 25 years old. Life is grand. And I'm sitting across the table from my clients, and we're talking, and I said, I've got to get out of this. He said, what do you mean? Where are you going?
You're making close to half a million dollars a year. Where are you going? What are you doing? Right. I said, I'm just not happy doing what I'm doing. He said, well, what are you going to do? I told him what I wanted to do during a sex convention. So he said, what do you want to do it? I said, I want to do it in New York. He said, well, I can't do it in New York.
He said, I have ties, business ties. He said, what if I see somebody? I said, well, if you see somebody at the show, he's at the show. You're investing in the show. So he wrote me a check, and he invested in the show, and I started doing sex conventions for the next year. Nine years. What was it? How much was the check? What is it? It's like 350 grand. Really?
Yeah It's a good friend.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean it was there's the Jenner gambler. He loved to play, you know, he was that that was the guy so We did a bunch of shows we did great great. I don't know if you remember this do you remember when Tiger Woods and David Boreanaz and And like all the big celebrities were having affairs with porn stars.
Yeah, okay, so
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