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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (2108)	9/18/2000 9:15:56 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 65232

One Big...Happy Family Please...hold the Fortune Cookie.....<g> Police Open Brothel, Crack Down to Make Cash SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Police in China's eastern province of Jiangsu found a novel way to fill their pockets with cash: They opened a brothel, arrested the customers and ``fined'' them. With seed money of 6,000 yuan ($725), Lishui County police substation deputy chief Gao Mingliang set up operations in a brothel disguised as a restaurant in May last year, Shanghai's Xinmin Evening News reported on Monday. Prostitutes would entice their customers into the back rooms. After a while, the police would raid the rooms, arrest the customers, haul them down to the police substation and fine them, it said. ``Depending on how much money the police station pulled in, they would issue a performance bonus to the girls,'' the paper said. Between May and August last year, the bureau racked up more than 80,000 yuan through the scheme. The Lishui County police plan unraveled when a neighboring police substation arrested the man listed as owning the restaurant and sentenced him to a year in a labor camp for running a brothel, it said. Upset after a year of hard labor, the man sent a petition to high level officials who uncovered Gao's scam, the paper said. Gao later confessed and in September a Nanjing District Court sentenced him to one year in prison for abusing his authority.