> “We had all these big people around the country thinking our guys were really doing this, and it was starting to make us all look bad,” former rackets investigator Tobias Fennel explains. The class backgrounds of the victims certainly didn’t hurt,[...]
So had they not been rich and influential, they might have not gotten any help. But indeed they ended up helping gay men.
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> “We had all these big people around the country thinking our guys were really doing this, and it was starting to make us all look bad,” former rackets investigator Tobias Fennel explains. The class backgrounds of the victims certainly didn’t hurt,[...]
So had they not been rich and influential, they might have not gotten any help. But indeed they ended up helping gay men.