In the late 1990s, the Akron Vice Squad began Operation Red Light to investigate two local escort services. Little did it expect the political and legal storm its actions would unleash. Soon everyone wanted to know who was on the list of clients. Were the defense lawyers on the list of false names given by men hiding their identities? Was a prostitute’s murder covered up to protect a judge who had taken her into the courthouse for sex and drugs? Did an undercover police officer use public money to fund an abortion for an escort who claimed he was the father? Were bogus racketeering charges used to seize money for cars and expenses for the police? Progressing step by step through the evidence, presiding judge Jane Bond goes behind the scenes and into her courtroom to see if justice can be done.
Jane Bond was a practicing lawyer until becoming a common pleas judge in Akron, Ohio. She presided over thousands of civil and criminal cases. Judge Bond wrote the inside story of the sensational escort case after retiring in 2007.