A lawyer in Florida has been disbarred for using his privileges to visit and film his sexual encounters with women in jail to produce porn films.
Andrew Spark, 58, was arrested on December 17, 2017, and charged with exposing himself, introducing contraband into county jails, and soliciting prostitution. He then pleaded guilty two years later to introducing contraband to the jails in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties and for soliciting for prostitution in the Pinellas County Jail.
"Spark abused his privilege to practice law and used his law license to engage in deception with the intent to access private rooms provided to attorneys in two separate jail facilities for the purpose of soliciting prostitution," a release from the Florida Bar says.
"Spark video recorded these encounters with the goal of creating an adult pornographic film for his own prurient and/or financial interest."
He also wrote up a modelling contract for inmates where women would be forced to agree to not reveal his identity. If they violated this contract, they may have to pay damages of US$1 million.
In another instance, Spark paid a woman $10 after recording her giving him oral sex at Falkenburg Road Jail in Hillsborough County.
Before his disbarment on January 21, Spark had already been suspended for his 2017 convictions, the Miami Herald reports.
After pleading guilty to the charges, Spark has been on probation since February 8, 2019, and will remain so until February 7, 2024.
According to the Miami Herald, Spark went to the Pinellas County Jail on November 25, 2017, and pretended to be the personal attorney of inmate Shauna Boselli, a woman who was sentenced for making an adult film featuring a seven-year-old.
Court records show that Boselli hadn't requested a visit with him, but he had shown his Florida Bar identification and claimed he represented her.
"He really duped the system because he shouldn't have access to her," Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said at the time of Spark's 2017 arrest.
"He wasn't her lawyer; he wasn't representing her. But as an attorney, he's given the courtesy of going into the jail to meet with clients."
Spark told Boselli he was making a series of porn films of female inmates giving him oral sex, and in return, he'd put money into their jail commissary account.
Boselli then told family members who then told law enforcement, the Miami Herald reports.
