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Sinclair Broadcast Group's Executive Chairman Was Once Arrested For 'Unnatural and Perverted Sex'
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/sinclair-broadcast-groups-executive-chairman-was-arrested-for-unnatural-and-perverted-sex-with-sex-worker/Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Executive Chairman Was Once Arrested For ‘Unnatural and Perverted Sex’ With Sex Worker
The former president and current executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group was previously arrested for an “unnatural and perverted sex act” with a sex worker.
According to a 1996 article in The Baltimore Sun, David Deniston Smith was arrested in an undercover sting aimed at a downtown corner highly frequented by street prostitutes. Smith and his alleged purchased mistress were both charged with committing an unnatural and perverted sex act–allegedly oral sex.
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Police then followed the Mercedes and its occupants onto the Jones Falls Expressway, Baltimore’s central artery and a segment of U.S. Interstate Highway 83. There, police allegedly witnessed DiPaulo perform oral sex on Smith as he drove the Mercedes north.
After spending the night in jail, Smith was released on his own recognizance. Smith eventually took a plea deal and was convicted of a misdemeanor sex offense.
According to a 2004 expose on Sinclair Broadcast Group published by Salon, part of Smith’s plea deal included a promise that Smith would own up to his behavior on air. Smith ultimately had the confession written up–and then he ordered an anchor to read it on air.
LuAnne Canipe, a reporter who worked at Sinclair’s flagship network in Baltimore from 1994 to 1998 said, “I asked the anchor why she was reading it, and she said she didn’t feel like she had any choice.”
To further atone for his malum prohibitum sexual misadventure, Smith was also ordered to perform community service. To that end, Sinclair produced a series of reports on a local drug counseling program. Smith ultimately ordered his employees to actually do that work, too. Canipe noted the obvious issue here:
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The former president and current executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group was previously arrested for an “unnatural and perverted sex act” with a sex worker.
According to a 1996 article in The Baltimore Sun, David Deniston Smith was arrested in an undercover sting aimed at a downtown corner highly frequented by street prostitutes. Smith and his alleged purchased mistress were both charged with committing an unnatural and perverted sex act–allegedly oral sex.
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Police then followed the Mercedes and its occupants onto the Jones Falls Expressway, Baltimore’s central artery and a segment of U.S. Interstate Highway 83. There, police allegedly witnessed DiPaulo perform oral sex on Smith as he drove the Mercedes north.
After spending the night in jail, Smith was released on his own recognizance. Smith eventually took a plea deal and was convicted of a misdemeanor sex offense.
According to a 2004 expose on Sinclair Broadcast Group published by Salon, part of Smith’s plea deal included a promise that Smith would own up to his behavior on air. Smith ultimately had the confession written up–and then he ordered an anchor to read it on air.
LuAnne Canipe, a reporter who worked at Sinclair’s flagship network in Baltimore from 1994 to 1998 said, “I asked the anchor why she was reading it, and she said she didn’t feel like she had any choice.”
To further atone for his malum prohibitum sexual misadventure, Smith was also ordered to perform community service. To that end, Sinclair produced a series of reports on a local drug counseling program. Smith ultimately ordered his employees to actually do that work, too. Canipe noted the obvious issue here:
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Very interesting....
Or with oral sex. The part that bothers me is the hypocrisy of these people, mostly white hertero men. Wonder if the local law there still considered, even in 1996, any sex except the most basic heterosexual act as sodomy and therefore "perverted"?
...unnatural and perverted! Doing it while driving could have led to an accident. They should pull over, like normal people.
