EXHIBIT INDEX TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION IN LIMINE TO PRECLUDE 

IRRELEVANT AND INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE RE MERSEY AND ELMS

United State of America v. Michael Lacey, et al.

2:18-cr-00422-PHX-DJH

Exhibit Description

A Gov’t Trial Ex. 591

B Gov’t Trial Ex. 739

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EXHIBIT A

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5/30/2017 David Elms, Founder of Prostitute­Rating Web Biz, Sentenced to 4 1/2 Years for Assault Attempt | Phoenix New Times

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BY RAY STERN

David Elms, Founder of Prostitute-Rating

Web Biz, Sentenced to 4 1/2 Years for

AssaultAttempt

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David Elms, founder of a hooker-finding Web site, has been sentenced to 4 1/2

years in prison for trying to hire someone to assault a business rival.

MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2010 AT 5:37 P.M.

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Elms also was sentenced to five years' probation for his role in the infamous

Desert Divas prostitution ring broken up by authorities a couple of years ago.

A news release from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office states that Elms

received money from Desert Divas and allowed his Web site,

www.theeroticreview.com, to help promote the illicit business.

If you want to know more about this case, check

out our previous blog entries -- and especially the

comment sections. This is one of those situations

when readers who knew Elms came out of the

woodwork to tell the full story.

Our first post about Elms, for example, has more

than 106 comments, including some from the man

Elms tried to pay someone to beat up, the 62-year-old owner of

www.sexwork.com.

Elms is getting off easy, in our opinion -- as with attempted murder cases,

society seems to reward criminals whose violent plans simply didn't work out.

Elms is no longer part of the company he founded, supposedly, but he'll

probably land on all fours after his sentence ends.

After all, this is the entrepreneur who came up with the brilliant idea of a Web

site that rates hookers, (some of whom felt compelled to prove their worth to

Elms personally, following poor ratings). The New York Times called him one of

the most powerful men in prostitution.

If he spends time with real pimps and bones up on his PHP code, Elms probably

will obtain a doctorate in prostitution management by the time he gets out of

prison.

Ray has worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona formore than two decades. He's won

many awardsfor hisreporting, including the Arizona Press Club's Don Bolles Award for

Investigative Journalism.

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EXHIBIT B

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