This is in Paoli. Locals have been asking about the Joanna now Rising Sun Spa again. Seems like the “extras” for men are all over online?
The issue for me with these places is the potential of underage girls and the potential of trafficking, because with the world’s “oldest profession” it will always exist somewhere right?
The property is in Tredyffrin Township
Remember years ago when they busted one of these places around a similar area and Radnor ? Also note, that a couple of women were found guilty recently of human trafficking out of massage parlors in central PA.
See below for things discovered online. (Including old article links from similar places which were busted years ago.) This is now Rising Sun but was Joanna? Seems to be same people/contact different businessnames?
Is it pizza, WaWa and a tuggy next door in Paoli? Neat!
No semi truck parking but it’s the Main Line so bring your Tesla truck, right?
These places exist in all sorts of communities- Malvern too- along Route 30.
They have also existed further east on the Main Line. Years ago there was one that was notorious in Wynnewood – it was near the Whole Foods. Then it was gone. But then it looks like it popped up in Bryn Mawr (yes Bryn Mawr let that sink in) and it was busted?
What in the Sam Hell is that place? These places again are everywhere…even in communities which would deny, deny, deny. They pop up, get caught, perhaps change their names and location, or just their name and they are up and running again.
They are often more of a cash business, so like nail salons absentee landlords love these tenants at times especially when they can’t rent spots, don’t they?
To say this was a post against sex workers would be too simplistic. The problem is the potential for underage girls being exploited and the potential for human trafficking isn’t it?
It was but a tiny blip on the news radar here, and it was another PA grifter thing. A guy from Paoli named James Keating.
We saw it as a mention in Patch this past summer: Astoundingly but not surprisingly no one else around here picked up the story, not even the Daily Local. This I seem to think was right before the news waves got busy with the Gladwyne grifter, Scott Mason, wasn’t it?
Max Bennett,Patch Staff / Posted Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 11:51 am ET
PAOLI, PA — A Paoli man has admitted in federal court to fraud, authorities said.
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, said James Keating, 52, of Paoli, pleaded guilty Tuesday in New Haven federal court to an crime stemming from a fraud scheme against his former employer.
So a friend from Connecticut sent me a blip from the Fox news channel in CT a couple of days ago. They quipped something about Southeastern PA and these grifter types. Yeah…sigh…sad…
Marc H. Silverman, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES KEATING, 52, of Paoli, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 20 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding his former employer of more than $1.4 million.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Keating was an Assistant Vice President and surety bond claims handler at Allied World Insurance Company (“Allied World”). He later served in the same capacity at Crum and Forster subsidiary U.S. Fire Insurance Company, where he also handled claims on Allied World surety bonds. All surety bond claims were handled through Allied World’s offices in Farmington, Connecticut.
Between 2017 and 2021, Keating defrauded Allied World in two ways. First, he used a shell company, American Construction & Industrial LLC, to bill Allied World for unnecessary claims work that was not performed and took the proceeds for himself. Second, he solicited and received kickbacks from Allied World vendors through another Keating-owned company, Surety Risk Solutions (also known as “SRS” or “SR5”), without the knowledge of his employer. Keating also caused these vendors to use another company in which he had an undisclosed ownership interest, Kodiak Asset Recovery, for asset searches at vastly inflated prices. Keating profited nearly $1 million through American Construction & Industrial LLC, more than $350,000 in kickbacks through Surety Risk Solutions, and nearly $125,000 through Kodiak Asset Recovery.
Judge Bolden ordered Keating to pay restitution of $1,226,603.97, which represents the loss to Allied World of $1,446,491.95, less $219,887.98 that he previously repaid as part of a civil judgment.
On July 30, 2024, Keating pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
This matter was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David E. Novick.
Next comes what I could find on the Federal Case. It was just out there for downloading. Just a couple of things is what I am sharing. The “GOVERNMENT’S MEMORANDUM IN AID OF SENTENCING” and “REPLY IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANT’S SENTENCING MEMORANDUM”
How sad if you read any of it. As is the case with the 19035 guy, the 19301 guy is also a case of want vs. need. Is it fair to say, greed motivated this? Think of the wasted years of education with this guy, and obvious intelligence. According to the PA Disciplinary Board, her was also once a lawyer.
I don’t understand this. I wish I did. How do you blow up your life like this?
Of course then there is the elephant in the room. Another familiar name who was in the initial insurance company court filings, who was dropped out of it at the end of the day. Keating’s wife.
So we are 100% clear: she was in the filings then dropped out. Claims against her were DISMISSED.
Life is a meandering path. We are given one life and at the end of the day, everyone wants to be loved and happy, right?
Then with some, the basics of life fall along the sidelines as some see what they think is an easy win where no one gets hurt. In this case it was an insurance company, right?
Face it, who can honestly say given the issues insurance companies cause insureds, you don’t wish insurance companies ill? How many have had medical claims denied? Homeowners claims played around with? Say take for another example tree damage. There is a house close to me that has had it’s roof covered in a blue tarp for well over a year an a half would be my guess at this point. Upscale neighborhood, nice properties, and there they are with a giant blue tarp on the roof. What about fires? Take the burned out shell of a historic house in Berwyn at 400 Leopard Road (Leopard and Sugartown.) We drove past there this past Saturday on our way to dinner. An eerie ruin surrounded by cyclone fencing. But that is an arson investigation, right? That has it’s own set of rules and many many players.
BUT we know the difference between right an wrong, right? So what happens when the moral compass falls to the wayside? Bad things. Like this. And yet another family blown up, right?
And I still can’t believe given all of the coverage in Connecticut and nothing really here. News deserts?
It’s a horrible economy, in spite of the every increasing attempts at dumbing down the American public to thinking “it’s not so bad out there.”
People are going hungry right in our own back yards. Which is why we are as residents of the suburbs and exurbs learning more and more about local food banks.
I have a wonderful friend in Narberth named Gigi who is a whirling dervish of a driving force behind the food bank in Narberth. So before I delve into how this ties in my head to Chester County, I would like you learn about Gigi and what she is doing courtesy of another pal of mine, Ashley Nguyen at Neighbors Main Line on Philly.com:
Now when Gigi reads this, I will undoubtedly get a phone call or e-mail saying she doesn’t deserve the praise, but I think she does. She’s an amazing example of just paying it forward in a good and Godly way. I think she’s awesome. (Incidentally, The Narberth Community Food Bank is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays, then reopens from 6 to 8 p.m.)
So anyway, I read a wonderful thing just now concerning Chester County and decided to post again today. It was in the Tredyffrin-Easttown Patch. It was about the Paddock Closing in Devon. A business closing in this economy is not wonderful, but as a restaurant,what they did and didn’t have to do, was wonderful – they gave leftover foodstuffs to a local food pantry:
At an hour on Wednesday that was lunch hour at the Paddock at Devon just last week, Deb Ackerman and Colleen Sanford were packing up the contents of a huge walk-in refrigerator in the restaurant’s newly-abandoned kitchen.
Ackerman and Sanford run the food pantry at the Church of the Good Samaritan in Paoli. The fresh vegetables, eggs, butter, cream, cheese and bacon they were packing up Tuesday just after noon will be distributed to local families in need on Wednesday evening at the church….The food pantry operates at the church on the first and third Thursday of each month from 9 a.m.- 1p.m. and on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month from 5 p.m.-7 p.m…..”Our need for donations has exploded.”
As the recession continues to hit Chester County hard, the food pantry has been working harder than ever to keep up with demands.
Here we are in an area that has a lot of agricultural goodness, and people are going hungry?
Americans waste more than 40 percent of the food we produce for consumption. That comes at an annual cost of more than $100 billion. At the same time, food prices and the number of Americans without enough to eat continues to rise…..I’ve been researching this topic since 2005, when two experiences made me aware of just how much food is wasted. Volunteering at D.C. Central Kitchen, a homeless shelter that rescues unused food from restaurants and supermarkets illuminated the excess in those areas.
Gleaning, or gathering crops that would otherwise be left in the field and distributing them to the hungry, illustrated the agricultural abundance that is often plowed under.
So now I am thinking about this. (A lot of people start to think “uhh-ohh” when I say I am thinking about something.) But seriously, it’s like a message. I am lucky. I have enough to eat and as of a partial mastectomy June 1, 2011 I can also say I am a breast cancer survivor. That has nothing to do with the price of eggs, per se, it just puts it all into perspective for me. I see what my pal Gigi does, and have an affinity for Good Sam although I don’t worship there because they do good works like this all the time.
So this is what I am thinking – and maybe it’s already happening, but in case it’s not, maybe the good farmers of Chester County can help out one or two of these food banks going forward? Or maybe farmers who already do stuff like this can encourage other farmer neighbors to consider it too?
Look, I know what I am asking. And I know that farming is one of the toughest, most demanding and money-sucking gigs out there, but surely based on what these food banks are doing for people in the community and the word that people like this Jonathan Bloom is trying to spread, can we think about or re-think this?
What do all you farmers out there do with what isn’t considered pretty enough to sell on the Main Line in farmers’ markets or to restaurants? Do you have any left overs that if you say, donated to Good Samaritan, which as a large religious institution is a non-profit , could undoubtedly give you some kind of a charitable donation letter? Or maybe give to my friend Gigi’s food bank which is applying to be a non-profit just because she’s awesome?
And others out there? As individuals or even as restaurants you can give to food banks too. You can also check with food banks to see not only what they need, but if they accept things like grocery store gift cards that can be used to purchase food. Or if you can’t give to a food bank, how about telling someone else who might be able to and just pay it forward?
For Good Samaritan, I have not had a chance to lock down the specifics of their food pantry, other than what I learned from T-E Patch: it operates at the church on the first and third Thursday of each month from 9 a.m.- 1p.m. and on the seoncd and fourth Thursdays of the month from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. I bet you could e-mail info@good-samaritan.org or call them during normal business hours at 610-644-4040. They are located at 212 West Lancaster Avenue in Paoli.
When I think of Chester County one of the things I think are the working farms, the produce, the dairy, the bounty, etc.
And well if you don’t want to go all the way to Narberth to drop off donations, Good Sam in Paoli is in Chester County….
The way I see it is we can’t count on anyone but ourselves in this horrible economy, so while it’s tough on so many of us, there are those who are literally going hungry. Why not do a good thing?
