Henry Vinson

Henry Vinson
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Born	1960
Exposed	Sexual blackmail

Henry W. Vinson, at the age of 26, owned and operated a gay escort service in Washington DC (the largest in the area at one point). It serviced "many US senators, state senators and congressmen".

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His book: Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail, with Nick Bryant (Trineday 2015).

Activities

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“A prospective client called me from the Omni Hotel on Wisconsin Avenue. He requested an 18-year old with minimum body hair and a slender swimmer's physique. I found his request to be disconcerting for a number of reasons. First, he essentially sounded like he desired an underage boy, and second, none of the escorts working that night remotely corresponded to his desires, expect me....Congressman Barney Frank opened the door - he had given me a pseudonym over the phone.”
Henry Vinson (2015) 

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“I felt a potential risk to my life was CIA Director William Casey's patronage of my escort service. The Washington Times reported that Casey attended parties at Spence's house, and that Casey and Spence were "friends", but its reporters weren't aware that their friendship had a common denominator that entailed procuring gay escorts from me. William Casey started to phone me for gay escorts in 1986. Like Barney Frank, his preferred escort was an eighteen-year-old with minimal body hair and a slender swimmer's physique. Although he requested that I supply him with underage escorts, I told him that I wouldn't acquiesce to that request.”
Henry Vinson (2015) 

Trial

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[My defence attorney] Greta Van Susteren has experienced a sharp upward trajectory since I was initially imprisoned. Shortly after, Van Susteren started co-hosting CNN's Burden of Proof..Greta made her vaunted leap to FOX in 2002, where she's been transformed into a media superstar...” |Is about=Henry Vinson,Jay Stephens,Greta Van Susteren,Raytheon,US/VIPaedophile|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=2015 |Sourced from=Henry Vinson Confessions of a D.C. Madam, page 196 |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=Henry Vinson Confessions of a D.C. Madam, page 196 |Has sourceURL=

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“I've also found it rather interesting that some of the individuals who played an instrumental role in either ensuring or abetting my silence have experienced remarkable upward mobility. For example, Jay Stephens, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, whose office oversaw the corrupt grand jury that walloped me with a potential sentence of 295 years, was appointed United States Associate Attorney General by President George W. Bush in 2001. But Associate Attorney General proved to be a two-year pit stop for Stephens, because in 2002 he became vice president of Raytheon Corporation..
[My defence attorney] Greta Van Susteren has experienced a sharp upward trajectory since I was initially imprisoned. Shortly after, Van Susteren started co-hosting CNN's Burden of Proof..Greta made her vaunted leap to FOX in 2002, where she's been transformed into a media superstar...”
Henry Vinson (2015) 

References

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