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‘College woman in love with me’ Attorney indicted for prostitution By JIM MANN The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Philip M. Bailley, a 29-year old Washington attorney, _was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on charges of transporting and procuring women for prostitution. According to informed sources, Baisley was running a call-girl type operation that involved women working in the U.S. Congress and at least one from the White House. University of Maryland students also were involved, these sources said. The clients included prominent Washington attorneys and businessmen and, in one case, a lawyer working for the White House, the sources said. The 22-count indictment also charges Bailley with, attempting to extort from at least three women. According to the sources, the alleged extortion attempts were the original impetus for an investigation into Bailley’s activities. An affidavit for a search warrant executed at Bailley’s house two months ago alleges that he took “‘lewd and obscene’”’ photographs of a Riverdale, Md. woman and later refused to return the pictures, threatening to extort from her unless she engaged in prostitution. In a lengthy interview Friday, Baisley vehemently denied the charges and portrayed himself as a one-time playboy being persecuted for his life style. Sipping imported champagne in his southwest Washington apartment, the Capitol Rotunda in full view from his porch, and with George Harrison: music wafting from his stereo, Baisley told a reporter: “I’m not guilty. . .I may be guilty of fornication. I may have lived a life that’s not by the moral code of the Baptists on the grand jury ...but that’s all. I haven’t done anything more than playboy magazine.”’ alleges that a total of 164 photographs were found there, along with camera equipment, a dildo, a whip and four address books. Bailley said Friday that, using the address books, the FBI in the past two months interviewed witnesses in New Orleans, Minneapolis, New York City and other places. “You don’t know how many hours the FBI agents put in,”’ he said. ‘“‘They went to every person in the phone book. These are women I’ve dated for the past four years.” Courthouse sources said that the White House had shown a special interest in the case and was exerting pressure on prosecutors not to comment on it. Baisley attended college and law school at Catholic University here, and was admitted to the practice of law in 1969. He has specialized in criminal law practice in U.S. District Court and Superior Court here, earning 20,708 dollars in federal funds under the Criminal Justice Act in 1971. Among his law clients, by his own admission, are a number of prostitutes. Two years ago, Bailley represented a 26-year-old Alexandria man accused in the then - D.C. Court of General Sessions with soliciting prostitution from a Washington policewoman who posed as a streetwalker. The defendant was acquitted after Bailley argued that the prostitution arrest had caused the man to lose his job and has wrecked his marriage. Regarding the latter, Bailley acknowledged that he has taken many pictures of naked women in recent years -the women who he dated, he said. They were not prostitutes,’’ he told an attractive blonde CBS news reporter who wandered in during the interview. ‘They were women like you, college-educated women who were in love with me. The pictures never went out of my possession.”’ “It’s a first amendment right, to take pictures,” said Bailley, while his new wife, Patricia, nodded. The search warrant executed by the FBI on April 6 at Bailley’s apartment The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Three men have been charged with raping an undercover policewoman. Capt. Charles Light, acting director of the Morals Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, said the 22-year-old victim, a member of the force just one month, was picked up where she had been stationed in an effort to uncover narcotics activity. She said a man later identified as Herbert L. Roy, 41, took her to his apartment and detained her there at gunpoint for about three hours. During that time, she said, Roy and two other men raped her, and the other two also forced her to commit an unnatural act. Roy was arrested Sunday. The other men, arrested were identified as Michael R. Adams, 21, and Delbert Lowery, 39. Capt. Light said the wom an did not identify herself to the men as a police officer because “‘it would have served no purpose except they might have killed her.”’ She will be reassigned to a unformed division job, Capt. Light said.
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Hamilton Journal News
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Thu, Jun 15, 1972
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