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Longtime Memphis attorney Mark Saripkin, 60, surrendered his law license following an investigation into allegations that he waived fees for a teen client in exchange for oral sex, according to state records and court testimony.
His client, admitted pimp Kala Bray of Bartlett, now 19, told investigators and her current attorney, Michael Scholl, that she and Saripkin began a sexual relationship when she was 17 and facing charges in Shelby County Juvenile Court. It continued when she was charged with child sex trafficking in federal court last year, Scholl said.
Saripkin, who has not been charged with a crime related to Bray, didn't return messages left on his cellphone Friday seeking comment. His voice-mail message said he will be out of the state on business during October, and will not return until the first of November.
kin filed a motion to withdraw as Bray's attorney in January, "upon the suggestion of the government that there might be the appearance of a conflict of interest," and "to preserve the integrity of the judicial process." Saripkin, a University of Memphis Law School graduate who has been licensed since 1979, surrendered his law license, according to the Supreme Court of Tennessee's Board of Professional Responsibility.
"I was getting ready to report him," said Scholl, until he learned Saripkin was no longer practicing law.
This week in federal court, Scholl convinced U.S. Dist. Court Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays Jr. to shave years off Bray's prison sentence for her role in sex-trafficking two minors, ages 15 and 16.
The judge gave Bray a 14-year prison sentence followed by five years of supervised probation. In announcing his decision Thursday, he called the case sad and said Bray had been abused by an attorney, a doctor and other authority figures, but he didn't elaborate.
"She had suffered sexual abuse as a minor at the hands of her previous attorney," Scholl said in arguing for a lower sentence for Bray. "There's no other word to describe it other than 'disgusting'."
Scholl said he had feared his client would face 30 or more years in prison after prosecutors portrayed her as an abusive pimp who choked one teen victim until she turned blue.
On Wednesday, federal prosecutor Jonathan Skrmetti said that Bray beat and threatened to kill her two victims to keep them in line. Bray and her accomplice, Vincent "Pistol Pete" Jones, lured the Memphis-area teens out of town under the guise of taking them to a Houston water park and instead forced the girls into the sex trade, prosecutors said.
Bray and Jones — who were dating — set up shop at a Houston hotel, where they gave the girls drugs before ordering them to have sex with clients, prosecutors said. One of the girls managed to escape and called for help.
Both Bray and Jones pleaded guilty to conspiring to offer minors for sex. Jones is due in court Dec. 14 for sentencing.
But Skrmetti told the judge that Bray deserved a reduced sentence since she "had given information on her former attorney."
Juvenile Court officials say records show Bray had faced various traffic and misdemeanor charges, as well as a felony charge of dealing drugs that was dismissed. They said they didn't find a case where Saripkin was listed as Bray's attorney. Scholl said Bray told him she first met Saripkin when he represented her then-boyfriend on unrelated criminal charges.
In 2000, Saripkin was sentenced to two years' probation for lying to an FBI agent about a fictitious plot to kill a federal agent and another man. His guilty plea to the charge of making false statements came five months after U.S. Dist. Judge Julia Gibbons threw out Saripkin's conviction by a jury on a more serious charge of obstruction of justice.
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Today, when people from across the country think of Memphis, they usually think of music, because the city has produced great musicians such as Elvis Presley, B.B. King, and W.C. Handy. But the largest city in Tennessee has a lot more to its legacy. In fact, here are a few of the more amazing historical tidbits about the history of Memphis
Hernando de Soto
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De Soto’s “discovery”
Many history books will tell you that on May 8, 1541, Hernando de Soto “discovered” the Mississippi River somewhere around the city of Memphis. A few interesting things about this: First of all, we don’t know exactly where along the river this happened. Secondly, European map-makers (known as cartographers) knew about the existence of the Mississippi River already – so he didn’t really “discover” the river. Finally, keep in mind that Native American tribes in the area had been using the river for centuries.
Nevertheless, de Soto and his traveling army were extremely important because they were the first Europeans to venture so far into the American continent. Today there is a park in Memphis called De Soto Park. The park contains a monument that says de Soto stood there to see the river, although no one really knows whether this is true or not.
To learn more about de Soto, click here to be taken on a virtual tour of the De Soto National Memorial in Florida.
A map of the Spanish fort that was built in 1795 on the present-day site of Memphis.
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