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In the full media frenzy that was the Eliot Spitzer scandal, the Cleveland Plain Dealer had an odd story in the never ending chase for some local angle.  We have high priced whores, too!  

 John, who ran a stable of call girls in the Mansion, a brothel in a nice section of an eastern suburb, put it this way:

“Law enforcement is a publicly funded business. Every dollar you spend, you have to show results. Do I want my taxpayer money going to chasing down what is essentially a victimless crime when there’s so much other victim crime? 

…At the Mansion, which no longer operates in its original location, a manual instructed the women who worked there how to avoid arrest and prosecution, John said.

Nice section of an eastern suburb?  No last name?   And unlike usual practice, the reporters’ phone numbers and emails aren’t on the article.  Responding to a tip that the PD might be covering up for some Spitzer-like clients, I did some digging.  

Turns out The Mansion is widely known among the Cleveland country club set as THE place to go after martinis at the club.  For the past two years, an endless stream of BMW’s, Mercedes, limos, and other high-priced vehicles have parked on Kenilworth late at night.  I’m told that when the well heeled and well-to-do at the country club would leave the bar all liquored up and say “I’m going to Cleveland Hts.”, it was understood they were going to The Mansion.

The party came to an end last summer.  Kinda.   John C. Pace was arrested on June 12, 2007, on two felony counts of promoting prostitution from November 15, 2006 through December 4, 2006, from his home, this house at 2376 Kenilworth in Cleveland, Hts.  Pace is the….ahem….”John” quoted in the PD story, and this is The Mansion.

Yes, Cleveland Hts., that bastion of safe inner ring suburbia, which also sports this brand new development literally across the street from the whore house.

Interestingly, on February 22, 2007, the court entered Pace into a diversion program, whereby the prosecution agrees to suspend the case pending Pace’s agreement to, basically, behave himself.   The entire case can be dismissed if Pace is a good pimp and pimps no more (among other things).  

Well, I went to visit the place, and it was clear from talking to folks in the hood that the party is still going on.  Pace put the house up for sale, and is now living elsewhere, but in my random visit, I saw numerous high end vehicles parked on the street, and saw a couple of his…ahem…employees arrive at the house.  And neighbors confirm that the stream of BMWs and Mercedes and SUV’s continues every weekend night, into the night.  The big limos have gone, but that’s about it.

And over on a high-priced-whore-discussion website, seems that the party really is going on, and there is a real sense that someone is winking and nodding.

amberstouch - Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:13 pm..Post subject: Great suggestion longjon77!!!!

My sources tell me the Mansion is not closed it is now a private member site. This has been their plan for a while, i have known this since late November…..A lot of the drama right now caused over the P D articile is just coincidence….Don’t you think if they were really busted in this upscale neighborhood it would of made the 10 news or have a little bit more info or at least a quote from the scheduling assistant? 

So there are many questions lingering here.  First, why did both the judge AND the prosecution agree to enter Pace into a diversion program?  Two felony counts of promoting prostitution, and the guy gets off with diversion, then gets quoted in the paper about the whore house he’s been running?  

Could Asst. Prosecutor Thomas Kroll, or prosecutor Bill Mason, have had a reason to put Pace in diversion, to avoid a lengthy, messy, highly interesting and fascinating public trial?  My experience with Mason is that he’ll run over his own grandmother to get to a TV camera while throwing the book at someone.  Why not here?  With such a media frenzy likely to ensue?  Odd.

Second, why did the PD fail to report some fairly significant details about a whore house still running rampant in one of Cleveland’s most desirable places to live?   They don’t print Pace’s last name, nor his whore house’s address, despite his arrest preceding the PD’s story by about 8 months, and is public record anyway.  Seems very odd, too.

And most importantly….who is being protected here?  The city of Cleveland Hts.?  Someone at the PD?  Someone in the prosecutor’s office?  

Or the BMW-&-Mercedes-driving-country-club-set that to this day keeps coming and going?

If anyone has any info on this story, email me.  

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