FBI: Pimp in magazine is defendant

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, January, 2006 | by Troy Graham

Matthew Thompkins wasn't shy about his profession as a high-rolling pimp.

For one thing, he apparently won a contest for people in that line of work. When the FBI took down his operation last month, it said, agents found two trophies proclaiming him "Pimp of the Year."

That's not all.

Last year, Thompkins gave a writer from Ozone, a hip-hop magazine based in Florida, a daylong tour of his life and business, the FBI said.

The magazine's December issue featured a pimp named "Brandon" who cruises around Las Vegas in his white Range Rover, offering a string of one-liners and holding forth on his "pimptuition."

"I have no moral hang-ups at all about prostitution," the magazine quoted Brandon as saying. "You don't give away anything for free if you...