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from www.freep.com – In anti-climatic fashion, the Miami Companions sex ring case wrapped up in Detroit today with the sentencing of the last remaining defendant: the boss’s girlfriend.
And like the three other women convicted in the case, Fabiola Contreras was spared time in prison.
The former escort was sentenced to time served for helping hire illegal immigrants to work for the high-priced escort service that charged up to $500 an hour for sex to roughly 30,000 clients nationwide. Contreras, who faced up to six months in prison, was sentenced in the presence of her one-time boss and now live-in boyfriend Gregory Carr, co-owner of Miami Companions. He received a 14-month prison sentence for his role.
Carr sat quietly in the first-row of the courtroom as U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Tarnow sentenced Contreras, concluding that prison wasn’t the right place for her. He did, however, tell Contreras she owed a $10 fee, at which point she turned around and looked to Carr, who held up a receipt showing he had already paid the fee.
Tarnow then said: “You are free to go now. I wish you luck.”
Carr and Contreras, who live in Florida, quietly left the courtroom. Carr is under a court order to voluntarily report to a federal prison camp in Miami anytime after Aug. 1.
Carr and Contreras were among five people arrested last summer when federal agents busted the agency in metro Detroit. Carr ran the operation for nearly a decade with his now ex-wife Laurie Carr, who received a one-day prison sentence for her role. The case netted guilty pleas from all five defendants, including office manager Michelle Matarazzo, who also received a one-day prison sentence for her role. She operated the phones and booking appointments for the escorts and clients.
Another female defendant who was spared a prison sentence was Nayubet Swaso, a former porn star and call girl who was the operations manager at call centers in Panama and Costa Rica. At her sentencing May 6, Tarnow concluded prison was not the right place for Swaso — who had twice been abandoned as a child. Instead, Tarnow gave her two years of supervised release.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Blackwell declined to comment after today’s sentencing.