Alleged Hooker-Booker Due Back in Court Today

March 27, 2012 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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Williamsburg Woman Charged With Promoting Prostitution in Connection With UES Madam

NEW YORK (AP) — A matchmaking recruiter charged with helping to run a big-money brothel on the Upper East Side is due back in court today.

Jaynie Baker, 30, of Brooklyn, has been free on $100,000 bond ever since she was arraigned earlier this month in Manhattan Criminal Court in connection with the headline-grabbing prostitution enterprise, that one sex worker claimed was used by former presidential candidate John Edwards.

Charges against Baker, who lives in Williamsburg, followed soon after those filed against the accused multimillion-dollar madam Anna Gristina.

Gristina, accused of providing prostitutes to power brokers and claiming to have law-enforcement contacts, was arrested last month and has pleaded not guilty to promoting prostitution.

Baker was vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, when news of the case broke several weeks, said her lawyer, Robert Gottlieb. After friends called to tell her that reporters were massed outside her apartment in Williamsburg, she quickly took steps to address the case, he said.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has declined to comment on the case.

A friend has offered to put up a home to secure bail for Baker, Gottlieb said.

Gristina, 44, has been held on $2 million bond. Prosecutors have said the Scottish-born Gristina, who remains a British citizen, had said she would flee if she got in trouble and may have money stashed away to do so.

Additional reporting by Ryan Thompson of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.