Home : Celebrity Justice, Joe Francis : Feds: Francis Paid Off Guards with Raider Tix

Celebrity Justice
Feds: Francis Paid Off Guards with Raider Tix

Posted Jul 25th 2009 6:40AM by TMZ Staff

Federal agents believe there's a reason Girls Gone Wild kingpin Joe Francis had such a wonderful time during his 2007 jail stint in Reno -- they claim he bought off his jailers with gifts, including tickets to see the Oakland Raiders!

Three former Washoe County jail employees were arrested for allegedly taking all sorts of lavish gifts from the porn king in exchange for jail favors -- like unrestricted phone use, the ability to sneak in food and protection from disciplinary action.

According to the feds, Aaron Weinstein, one of Joe's GGW producers played the role of delivery man -- allegedly dropping off a slew of gifts to the jail employees, including a $4500 Cartier watch, a $5000 gift card to Sax Fifth Avenue, $3,200 in cash, a big screen TV, a home entertainment system, airline tickets, and, of course, tickets to see the Oakland Raiders lose.

Weinstein was also arrested and charged with paying off a public official. If convicted, he faces up to 2 years in prison and serious cash fines.

Tags: Girls Gone Wild, GirlsGoneWild, Joe Francis, JoeFrancis

Comments [45]
SHARE |
4ie6

Relevant Posts

Reader Comments

(Page 1 of 3) | 1 | 2 | 3 | Most Recent | Next 15 Comments

1. WOW !!! TMZ KEEP THE MICHAEL JACKSON STUFF UP YOUR DOING GREAT!!! THE DOCTORS ARE GOING TO JAIL..
WE WANT MORE MJ STUFF!!! AUTOPSY PICS....THANKS TMZ

Posted at 12:45AM on Jul 25th 2009 by G-ELVIS

2. LOL THAT'S FUNNY

Posted at 12:46AM on Jul 25th 2009 by G-ELVIS

3. its Saks 5th, idiot

Posted at 12:47AM on Jul 25th 2009 by tmzsucks

4. HA HA I'M FIRST NOW !!!!! LOL

Posted at 12:52AM on Jul 25th 2009 by G-ELVIS

5. what about charging this sleeze with something

Posted at 1:16AM on Jul 25th 2009 by Sonja

6. Joe is a douche who is going to prison for at least 3-5 on tax charges.

Posted at 1:41AM on Jul 25th 2009 by The Truth

7. If/when they are convicted, they can all SHARE accomodations in the Federal lockup. It'll be just like old times.

Posted at 1:47AM on Jul 25th 2009 by AAARRRGGGHHH

8. $10 says that he pissed off some feds because their daughters were flashing on his videos.

Posted at 2:02AM on Jul 25th 2009 by kb

9. balls

Posted at 2:08AM on Jul 25th 2009 by balls

10. correction...SAKS Fifth Avenue...not sax...

Posted at 3:41AM on Jul 25th 2009 by nkn

11. I met the father of the girl (she's 21) who is dating Joe on a flight to Denver. (She missed the flight with her family...on their way to Oklahoma (via lax and denver?). Pops apparently loves the limelight when he comes to LA on Joe's dime. The funny part is ~ that although he "tried" not to tell me who his young daughters boyfriend was....he dropped hints the entire flight. It was super annoying. I was trying to sleep. Finally after the gadzillionth time he brought it up ~ aka we had dinner at mister chows and the paps went nutz bs...i finally said. ok who is your daughter living with (he had to tell me, they live in Bel Air on the top of the hill ~ and that some rapper had played a party he was at - like I even care). bottom line ~ Daddy is proud of all of his other daughters boyfriends, but loves the perks he gets from Joe, whether he approves of him or not. He never found out ~ as i didn't disclose - i work for a major rock band and found his bs offensive and droll.

Posted at 3:54AM on Jul 25th 2009 by Motley sue

12. Just checking in to make sure that someone had used "douche" to describe Francis.

Posted at 5:01AM on Jul 25th 2009 by Okay...Covered

13. By looking at Joe Francis it looks like he has a SMALL penis.... i migt be wrong but i dought it....

Posted at 6:52AM on Jul 25th 2009 by Sdgirl

14. Since when is tickets to see the Oakland Raiders a good thing?

Posted at 7:02AM on Jul 25th 2009 by mfiasco

15. so his buddy got arrested but is this head cheese in jail yet or still on the highest coke hill in LA?

Posted at 8:45AM on Jul 25th 2009 by 2drk2fck

| 1 | 2 | 3 | Most Recent | Next 15 Comments