Joe Francis: Torture gone wild

by mpress | October 27, 2007 at 06:53 am

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And I thought we were only torturing the terrorists.

Is this a case of payback and envy?

”Look, Miami is one of my favorite places in the world, but it’s
hard to believe that Miami and Bay County are even part of the same
state,” Francis, 34, said in a telephone interview with The Miami
Herald from the Reno jail. “They do things their own way up there. I
was tortured.”

Francis’ detractors, and there are many, say the cocky, foul-mouthed entrepreneur has only himself to blame.

Joe Francis, the self-made, self-promoting multimillionaire behind the Girls Gone Wild video empire, used to come to South Florida whenever he could.

But now, Francis vows to stay where he is — in a Nevada slammer, awaiting a federal tax-evasion trial — rather than be extradited to Florida, where, he says, spiteful jailers and prudish prosecutors in Bay County have waged a four-year campaign to humiliate and destroy him.

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