Charged with Promoting Prostitution in Try for World Series Ducats, Susan Finkelstein Insists She Intended to Pay $$ for Them
Philadelphia, 30 October 2009: The Philadelphia woman charged with offering sex in exchange for tickets to the World Series contends police are swinging and missing.
Susan Finkelstein, a 43-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate student, says she wanted to take her husband to a game between her beloved Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees.
She says she was simply trying to score tickets online, as she had in the past, so she put an ad in Craigslist. The ad had some apparent double entendres. It described, in part, a “gorgeous, tall, buxom blonde … in desperate need” of the tickets.
“I wanted to get Series tickets I could afford,” she told “Early Show” co-anchor Harry Smith Friday. ” … I work in communications and PR (public relations). … I wanted my ad to stand out” among ones soliciting customers for merchandise … (do) why not make it fun and witty?”
An undercover police officer responded to the ad, and met Finkelstein at a bar in suburban Bensalem, Pa. She says she told him she needed two tickets, one for herself and one for her husband. “I wanted to negotiate prices” for the tickets, she told Smith. ” … I have pretty good negotiating skills.”
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com
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