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He knows the police would come by and they didn't do anything and he thinks all they want is money. And he decides just right there and then I just give one thousand dollars a month, which is like nothing and I can just keep going the way I am.

  And for two years, Conforte has a legitimate¹ agreement: pay the fine and the law would look the other way until the authority get worried about the hit from fads². 

The country is getting smaller and technology is getting better, then there is somebody in the federal authority that might come down upon them for taking money from this popular brothel owner, and doing nothing about the business. So they came up with the idea that they had to legalize it. If they make it legal, they can collect tax on it. The tax is probably much beyond a thousand dollars a month. They were talking hundreds of  thousands of dollars over years. So that's what they decided³ to do.

  On December the twenty-fifth, Christmas Day, Joe's brothels became legal. sort of Christmas present. It's now legal in every county, sold legal  in the county under population of about a hundred thousand.

  This leads to the option for legalizing prostitution in eleven counties in Nevada. And while Les Vegas was too big to have sate-sanctioned prostitution, it's perfectly⁴ legal in Joe's county. Joe was now legally in business.

He became sort of this weird⁵  national hero. It is kind of funny that this guy from a small town in Italy was able to do what he did. He is very smart. He is very lucky. He had the three Bs. He called them brains, balls and breaks. I came to think a lot of people today who'd have the audacity⁶ to try to attempt something like this. That just won't happen.

  The world's oldest profession may also be its most enduring with global impact, constant demand, and unlimited⁷ supply. Chances are the sex trade is never going out of business and history will continue to be changed by sex for sale.

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