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Gayle Morris Speaks Out On Alleged Prostitution Ring

Gayle Morris Speaks Out

By KFBB News Team

Story Created: Jul 10, 2009 at 3:10 PM MST

Story Updated: Jul 10, 2009 at 11:30 PM MST

The former of mayor of Great Falls is speaking out after being charged with felony promotion of prostitution. He faced the judge Friday, along with four other other employees of Really Windy's Bar, the gentlemen's club that Morris owns.

According to court documents, informants told authorities that Morris knew prostitution was going on at the bar. One informant states that Morris told her not to discuss prostitution on the floor, but rather to wait until in a private dance room, and that a good way to broach the subject of price was to tell them they could tip for the services provided.

Morris though denies those allegations. He says each dancer pays to use the facility for dancing, and that there's a facility use form that specifically goes over Montana statutes against prostitution.

The former mayor also stated he's never seen any illegal acts going on at Really Windy's, and that he's never received any money from illegal activities.

Morris adds, "People are making accusations against me. I don't even know who they are. So it's hard for me to respond to that, but I would like to know who they are and I'd like to have them tell me just exactly what was that process, and how much money did I get? And how much money did they get? And have they repeated all that to the IRS? And are they going to arrest them for prostitution if they step forward and give us all that information?"

Deputy Cascade County Attorney Kory Larsen counters, "Well the nature of the charges for the promotion of prostitution are related to the keeping of the premises, where prostitution is going on, having knowledge of the fact that prostitution is going on, on the premises, and taking no steps to abate that. The statute is quite clear that, that is promotion, regardless of whether he is getting any compensation from it. He can still be charged with promotion under the statute for having knowledge of abating that."

Also in court today, four other employees, including two dancers already charged with prostitution. Those four are each charged with distribution of dangerous drugs.

As you may recall, this investigation began more than a year ago. The Central Montana Safe Streets Gang Task Force says it became involved after several complaints regarding narcotics, prostitution, and gang trouble at several locations, including Really Windy's.

The task force said today, that many additional warrants and arrests will be conducted in the coming weeks.

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Anonymous said on Wednesday, Jan 26 at 8:35 PM

It's about time. Gayle down....Bandito's next?

j hardy said on Friday, Sep 11 at 5:18 PM

it is antihuman to not allow prostitution. a growing number of people are realizing this.europeons are far more advanced on this issue.

kevin said on Sunday, Jul 12 at 9:08 AM

in order to far and accurate you must allow viewpoints from people that u dont agree with

Dave said on Saturday, Jul 11 at 11:00 AM

It's not nice to delete comments just because you don't like them, kind of defeats the whole purpose of the comment section.

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