A Blind Lawyer and His One-Eyed Monster Claim Prostitute Swindled and Discover Discriminates
One ATL reader sent this article along, writing:
I haven’t had time to read the article yet, but the headline is ‘Blind lawyer says hooker took him for 8Gs.”
Yes, that sounds like it would be of interest to Above The Law. From the Philadelphia Daily News:
John F. Peoples, 60, was steamed after he learned that the woman who he says he hired for sex allegedly overbilled his Discover card by $8,600.So he sued her for damages and the credit-card company for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, claiming that it had not sufficiently protected its blind customers.
Ginger Dayle, the alleged prostitute, denies being a lady of the night, instead insisting that she was actually giving Peoples Pilates lessons. Peoples says though that he is “barely able to walk, let alone do Pilates” and that sex is “one of the few exercises I get to do.” Whether for Pilates or sexual play time, Dayle bills at Biglaw rates: Peoples says he agreed to pay her $275-$375 per hour, but that she started charging him $550-$800 per hour. He signed the receipts, without realizing she had upped her price.
He reported the fraud to Discover but it chose to look the other way.
Perhaps Discover didn’t want to get wrapped up in criminal payments.
In his suit, he cited the Americans with Disabilities Act, claiming that Discover does not provide “reasonable accommodations” for blind consumers to use their services without running the risk of being defrauded by merchants.
Justice might be blind too, but it feels no sympathy for Peoples.
In his memorandum, U.S. District Judge Edmund Ludwig dismissed Peoples’ claim against Discover and said that he couldn’t recover his disputed charges because they were for an illegal and “prohibited transaction,” which constituted a breach of the card-member agreement.
We bet that Pilates cover story is sounding a bit more palatable to Peoples just about now.
Blind lawyer: Pro took me for 8G [Philadelphia Daily News]
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Comments
Moral of the story: Pay cash only.
He may not have eyes, but he has balls!
PE is from Columbia Law? Quick, someone from Columbia post first name.
Looks like an attorney got fucked (in more ways than one) as opposed to the other way around...
Oh my! Looks like John Peoples could have used a better set of peepers.
Nice photo, Kash. Glad to see you're so sensitive to the plight of the blind.
This would never hapen at Widener
Partner Emeritus is absolutely right on this one. But one must also avoid suspicious money transfers, because I did that in order to pay cash and still got busted.
6,
it's not like a blind person is likely to see it and be offended
your pal,
9
9,
Text to speech
- Blind Frat Stud
Heh. He's a (card)Member who lived the motto: "The Card that Pays You Back."
Ginger Dayle went to Wharton
Moral of the story: Pay Kash only.
10,
Text to speech doesn't translate photos, you stupid fuck.
-Ari Gold
You know what's up.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
I think that was on fark. Give credit where credit is due.
Or you assholes will tell me that you read the Pennsylvania press?
10,
you are a mouthbreathing troglodyte.
http://www.facebook.com/ginger.dayle?_fb_noscript=1
http://www.theateralliance.org/talent/actors/dayle_ginger.html
PE filed bankruptcy due to delinquencies on his Discover Card. He has no moral authority to discuss this issue.
What kind of a world do we live in where we can't even trust a $275-an-hour hooker not to overbill a blind man's credit card?
19 with the win. Now adays we really need pictures to be interested in any such story like this.
This guy is the perfect candidate to take over fucking responsibilities for Letterman's former whore. At least he won't have to see what she looks like, and he clearly doesn't mind paying for sex.
Heh. His name is "John."
What kind of self-respecting lawyer uses a Discover card?
Peter: May I help you?
Man: Yes, do you accept the Discover card?
Peter: Hey, Lois, Diamond Jim Brady over here just asked if we accept the Discover card.
Lois: Ooooh, they're in an exclusive club called anybody!
Peter: Yeah. No, no, no, I don't think so. You know, you know, I would rather take two live chickens than your fly-by-night credit card. I would rather take a jar of pennies that's value was less than that of your bill.
Man: Look, you don't have to insult me.
Peter: No, no, no. You are going to sit there and listen to the funny things I would take instead of your credit card.
25 - from what are you quoting? it is so funny you couldn't have written it. Is it Oscar Wilde? Too clever - it's Wilde isn't it?
26, it's from Family Guy.
And you have no idea who I am, let alone whether I am funny enough to have written it.
Now the world's oldest profession is over billing as well?
Talk about poetic justice!
Pretty depressing. the story indicates that he's not only blind but has other significant disabilities as well. So fine, he went to a prostitute, but we're not exactly talking Eliot Spitzer here. don't think he deserves to be cheated and shamed.
her, on the other hand...