Sunshine Law spreads Evil Darkness
If you were arrested in Florida your mug shot will live on forever on the Internet. Unless you’re a Florida police officer, in which case, you can fill out a form to keep your mug shot out of the public record and off extortion sites like florida.arrests.org.
Florida prides itself on a history of transparent government and open pubic records – just ask their press officers. This commitment to open public records is codified in Chapter 119, Section 1 of the Florida Statutes. The law requires that government bodies at the municipal, county and state levels provide access to view and copy public records they create.
Florida’s laws thrill the civil libertarian in me; it seems right and just that a citizen should be able to easily discover what government officials are doing. Without such access, there is a very real question whether there can be any meaningful accountability for government actions. But if accountability is the purpose of the law then how can it be that police officers – government officials with the power to investigate and arrest citizens – are exempt from having their mug shots made public?
The same part of me that is thrilled by robust access laws is appalled that this law can be used to create websites like florida.arrests.org, which publishes the mug shots of individuals and then refuses to remove them unless paid. If the mug shots of all arrestees were available that would be one thing, but they aren’t. Only the mug shots of people who don’t want to pay to have them removed or who are too poor to pay to have their mug shots removed or who are government officials can escape the endless embarrassment of having a mug shot on file.
It looks like there is a chance that the Attorney General of Florida can get rid of the mug shot exemption for police officers. If that happens the law still won’t be perfect (it won’t stop exploitation sites) but at least it will support the spirit of an open and transparent government in Florida.
The exemption seems to be based on the idea that arrest information can have negative effects on one who has yet to plea in court. I don’t think it would be politically popular for the Attorney General of Florida to get rid of an exemption that is aimed to protect police officers. It is a shame Florida Legislators haven’t done anything to protect average citizens from those who would misuse information and degrade the notion of innocent until proven guilty.
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“Only the mug shots of people who don’t want to…”
Be added to a humiliating if not dangerous “suckers list” that can be sold to other online criminals.
MUGSHOTS.COM, and the other mug shot websites, including tampacriminals.com, flarrests.com, bustedmugshots.com, whosarrested.com all work together with the same group of scumbag vendors. The vendors, that are supposedly separate from the mug shot companies work with them to place your mug shot on as many sites as possible. Once they see that a person (herein, victim) calls a vendor to remove a mug shot, they know that victim is weak and they try to get as much money as they can out of the victim.
I, posing as someone who wanted his mug shot removed, picked a mug shot off MUGSHOTS.COM at random. I then ran the name through google, bing, and yahoo. I knew before I called how many sites that person’s mugshot was on. I then called one of the MUGSHOTS.COM vendors. I was asked (they were trying to test how weak I was) “How important is it that you get it off?” After I explained that it was important to get it off, I was asked if I knew how many sites the picture was on. When I told them three websites, they came back and said that it was on 6. What they do is ONCE THEY KNOW YOU WANT YOUR MUGSHOT REMOVED THEY PUT YOUR MUGSHOT ON MORE SITES SO THAT THEY CAN CHARGE YOU FOR MORE REMOVALS!!! One guy, called me the next day and told me that he found the mug shot on another site. I am 100% sure that person was not on that site.
These companies put your picture up on more websites after they know a person is willing to pay. OR, the other thing they do is take you off the sites you are on that day and add you to a new site a few days later hoping you’ll call back to have your picture removed.
GERRY
GERRY February 25, 2013 at 7:37 pm · Reply →
One of the top persons (if not the top) behind the internet extortion racket known as “MUGSHOTS.COM” is attorney Marc Gary Epstein, (a.k.a Marc G. Epstein, a.k.a Marc Epstein). Born February 26, 1952, Marc G. Epstein is a member of the Florida Bar (Fla. Bar # 344192) He is also a member of the New York Bar, Third District. Marc graduated a Fourth Tier law school, Nova Southeastern University – Shepard Broad Law Center, which is known for producing such fine scumbag attorney’s as Scott Rothstein file://localhost/(http/::articles.sun-sentinel.com:2009-12-05:news:fl-rothstein-history-20091205_1_scott-rothstein-ponzi-scheme-jail-cell) and Paul Bergrin (http://nymag.com/news/features/paul-bergrin-2011-6/index1.html).
While Marc G. Epstein awaits to join Paul and Scott, who will be getting acupuncture up their dirt-shoots for years to come, he is playing his last role as counsel for MUGSHOTS.COM. The reason I say that this is his “last role,” is because, unbeknownst to Marc, there has been an investigation of him and the other so-called “removal vendors.” There are various recordings of Marc G. Epstein and the “vendors” admitting that they work together and pay each other off and also recordings in which Marc admits that it is his decision which mug shots stay up and that it is “his business.”
The entire compilation of evidence against Marc G. Epstein and his extortion ring will be sent to the Florida Board of Bar Examiners and the New York Board of Law Examiners, as well as the U.S. Attorney, I.R.S. (I hope they’re paying taxes) and major news stations throughout Florida and New York (news stations love audio files). Hence, the esteemed Mr. Epstein’s law license will be “no longer,” or as lawyers say- “the privilege will be REVOKED!” These audio files will be uploaded to our mugshots.com extortion facebook page (coming soon) so that you can hear Marc. G Epstein and the other vendors in all their glory. If anyone else wishes to file an additional complaint with the Florida Bar against Marc G. Epstein for extorting your money, the link to the instructions is at the end of this article. There will be more on Marc G. Epstein and his family below.
The only other moron stupid enough to give me his address was one down in Florida. It turns out it is a “virtual office” and, of course, no correct phone number and no one present.
THESE ARE NOT REMOVAL COMPANIES. THEY ARE ALL ONE COMPANY WORKING TOGETHER TO EXTORT PEOPLE OUT OF MONEY!!! THEY PREY ON YOUR FEAR OF FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND EMPLOYERS SEEING YOUR PICTURE. NONE OF THEM ARE REGISTERED OR INCORPORATED IN ANY STATE. MOST OF THEM OPERATE OUT OF CANADA. THE WEBSITE REGISTRATION IS HIDDEN AND THEY CAN BE HOSTING FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. CALL ONE OF THESE COMPANIES AND ASK THEM FOR A PHYSICAL ADDRESS AND/OR A PLACE OF INCORPORATION AND I GUARANTEE NONE OF THEM CAN GIVE IT TO YOU. THE NUMBERS THEY HAVE ARE NOT REAL PHONE NUMBERS. THEY ARE FORGED THROUGH GOOGLE VOICE, SKYPE, AND DISPOSIBLE PHONES. THE REASON THAT MOST OF THEM ACCEPT ONLY PAYPAL IS TO HIDE THEIR IDENTITY BECAUSE THEY CAN HAVE THE CHECKS SENT THROUGH THE MAIL TO A P.O. BOX OR TRANSFERRED TO AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT. NO ONE CAN REMOVE A MUGSHOT UNLESS THEY OWN OR HAVE ACCESS TO A WEBSITE. THAT LINE THEY GIVE THAT “WE SEND A REQUEST TO MUGSHOTS.COM AND THEY REMOVE IT” IS A BUNCH OF BULL. THEY ARE ALL WORKING TOGETHER TO STEAL YOUR MONEY AND ARE LAUGHING AT YOU.
DO NOT BE A VICTIM!!! DON’T SEND MONEY! THEY KNOW THIS IS ILLEGAL WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE SO WELL HIDDEN!
TRY TO LOOK UP THE OWNERS OF THE WEBSITES OF THE REMOVAL SERVICES ON “WHOIS.COM”- THEY ARE ALL HIDDEN!!!!
Below are the sites that are part of the scam along with the names of people who work there. All of these names are probably aliases, except John C Devincenzo and Jamie Anthony Militana (aka MILATANA)… these two morons weren’t smart enough to hide themselves properly. The phone numbers in italics are the numbers they have called us back from- all of them are hidden numbers except JAMIE ANTHONY MILITANA*** (see more information on this criminal and his criminal record below).
GERRY
GERRY February 25, 2013 at 7:38 pm · Reply →
The following is a link to Marc Epstein’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1247513686. In the picture with Marc is his idiot, drug-dealing, extortionist son Ari Brant Epstein (a.k.a. Ari Epstein, a.k.a. Ari. B. Epstein). Marc Epstein’s son Ari B. Epstein, born March 10, 1987 was arrested in Dade County on felony charges of Dealing Drugs in or around a school (Case #13-2005-CF-008520-0001-XX), Possession of Cannabis (Case # 13-2005-MM-016789-0001-XX) and in Palm Beach county (Case # 50-2004-CT-033622-AXXX-MB). He currently helps his father extort people out of money by posing as a reputation restorer (see Marc Epstein’s Facebook info page where he states “I have a son Ari who is in working in reputation management.”)
Ari B. Epstein lives at 1895 NE 214 Terrace, Miami, FL 33179-1532 (a gated community, however, it is still accessible). If he has extorted any of your money by making you pay to take your mug shot off his site I suggest you pay him a visit and portray your dismay. For all of you who are unable to physically reach Ari B. Epstein, his phone numbers are 305-935-5020 and 954-971-7778 (the number his father, Marc G. Epstein, has listed with the Florida bar). Also, keep in mind, mailing is good too.
Ari. B. Epstein lives with his mother, Lesli Epstein Angel, born May 1956. Lesli is Marc G. Epstein’s ex-wife. They live with the guy she married after she divorced Marc in September 1999, Albert Justin Angel, Esq. (he used to be married to Judge Jeri Beth Cohen D.O.B. 10/1953). Marc G. Epstein then married Randi Sue Seligman, born July 1955, on October 26, 2003. Unfortunately, because he’s a piece a shit, this did not work out either and they divorced just last June. Randi lives at 5621 Sea Biscuit Road, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33418. She can be reached at 561-840-9200. This is also Marc G. Epstein’s last known address. Randi Sue Seligman can also be reached at her place of work- 15119 Jog Road, Delray Beach, Florida 33446, Phone # 561-499-490 or 561-601-6202.
Marc G. Epstein was not the only one that was married three times in his family. His sister Michelle L. Silver (a.k.a. Michele Bobrow), born April 1954 (19365 Stonebrook Street, Weston Florida 33332), is a “quick-one” too. She was married 3 times, and the last was to Paul Sonny Silver on December 19, 1998 (BTW- Paul was married 3 times too). Michele supposedly owns “Eyeglass Wearhouse,” located at 1730 W Hillsboro Blvd Deerfield Beach, FL 33442. The phone number is 954-574-0755, but the company is not registered. This may be a front for her brother, Marc G. Epstein’s extortion business. Marc’s parents, Daniel and Beatrice, recently dropped dead. Our guess is that they died of shame of having a son that was such a scumbag, lowlife, extortionist, bum. With some luck, he’ll be joining them soon.
***JAMIE ANTHONY MILITANA (D.O.B. 5/24/1952) is/was also a client of Marc Gary Epstein. Now they’re business partners in this criminal enterprise.
Besides extorting and blackmailing people, Jamie Anthony Militana is also a Cocaine Dealer, A Thief, and a Stalker. He has also been arrested on Domestic Violence charges. This is evidenced by Jamie Militana’s numerous arrests
Karen Smith
Florida is evil. Can not believe that this is legal. People go to court and pay fees and are charged and released so they can get back on the road to recovery. Only to find out that they need to pay another outfit thats ran by organized crime to “promise” to take down the information. Well we paid the fee and all they did was take it down form the one web site and then we have to keep paying other sites to keep having it removed. That has got to be illegal somehow. I mean if the justice system is not going to be on the side of the people then how is Justice being served here? Sounds to me like the only people benefiting from this are the Police and Organized crime (we all know they are the same thing) I do not have 10 years and thousands of dollars in legal fees to change this law. Its just wrong. Some people make mistakes and should be allowed to learn from them and move on. This effects the ability of that person to be able to get back on their feet again.
http://mugshotsscam.blogspot.com/ ANOTHER GOOD SITE