CIA Agent Sex Plots, Brothel Rescues, And DLA Piper

Wild accusations in a pair of lawsuits about the man at the center of a famous Biglaw embarrassment.

That headline strung a lot of words together that most of us never expected to hang out in the same sentence. No matter how “ridiculous or salacious” DLA Piper gets, “CIA sex plots and brothel rescues” never seemed in the cards for the Biglaw behemoth.

Yet here we are. Chalk it up to another day living in the multiverse of infinite possibilities.

A pair of lawsuits allege that Adam Victor, the 62-year-old and married founder of TransGas Energy, hired a pair of young, attractive Kazakh women as “assistants” and harangued them for sex. All this while telling them — according to the suits — that he was “a CIA and FBI asset, code-named Rambo.” What? Per the NY Post:

Victor brought [30-something Eve] Khatskevich to parties with North Korean diplomats and told her “that he was planning a mission to North Korea under the guise of developing either a cogeneration or coal-to-gas facility,” the suit says.

“He elaborated that the real purpose of the mission was to obtain a certain metal sample that he would then turn over either to the CIA and/or the FBI for analysis,” according to court papers.

The spy talk was mixed with pleas for sex, the girls say. He allegedly said things like “I want to f–k you” and “Come on, show me your nipples.”

It’s like James Bond if James Bond were an out-of-shape geriatric. No, not Roger Moore… some generic out-of-shape geriatric.

How did DLA Piper, a firm that can’t read a map become embroiled in these stories of international intrigue and inchoate grab-assery? Seasoned readers of ATL may remember Adam Victor as the client that precipitated what remains perhaps DLA Piper’s greatest embarrassment, the internal emails suggesting that lawyers “churn that bill, baby!” and “That bill [Victor’s] shall know no limits.” DLA Piper explained that this was just inappropriate humor, but most of us just smacked our heads that the giant firm sued Victor over $675,000 when it knew (or should have known) that this kind of material was lingering in its servers. The pair eventually settled upon undisclosed terms.

But these lawsuits suggest Victor had his eyes on a different kind of churning:

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When she was traveling with Victor to Vegas on business, Khatskevich says she found his iPhone in the bathroom pointed toward the shower.

She “looked at the video and saw that it depicted her in the shower… completely naked as she undressed and showered,” the suit says.

But Victor claims these allegations are nothing more than extortion attempts filed by opportunistic former sex workers, which is always a possibility in a scenario like this. That said, Victor’s description of how he met these women is more than a little curious:

In court papers, he says he rescued the Eastern European immigrants from a “Hell’s Kitchen brothel” where they were working as prostitutes — and claims the suits are “extortion” attempts.

Perhaps Victor is less James Bond than an ersatz Daredevil: keeping the denizens of Hell’s Kitchen safe from crime and overpriced brunch.

Note to whoever represents Victor: talk about your bills over the phone.

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Energy titan posed as CIA spy to pressure women into sex: suit [NY Post]

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