A 12-year NYPD veteran was summoned by the Internal Affairs Bureau today to determine whether or not he had a role in protecting "Manhattan Madam," mother of four and animal lover Anna Gristina's Upper East Side brothel from detection. According to DNAinfo, Sergeant Richard Wall turned in his memo book but was not questioned. "He comes in and out of there," a local resident who said he knew Wall by name and badge number. "He's got a regular routine. He's around here all the time."
The Morgan Stanley banker, David Walker, who Gristina was meeting with when she was arrested late last month told the outfit that Gristina is a "very caring, very giving, very loving" woman. "I'm surprised at having to answer these questions. She was the mom next door." It's been a rough week for Morgan Stanley, with one of their top executives being accused of stabbing a cab driver and now Walker's claim that Gristina "had plenty of other people at Morgan Stanley" that she spoke to about possible business deals. He denies doing business with her, and maintains she was a friend.
The Post describes Gristina as "a typical mom who wore jeans, a flannel shirt, baseball cap over her ponytail, old boots and a J. Crew barn jacket to drive her kids to school." Her husband Kelvin Gorr declined to talk about the charges against his wife, but said, "There has never been any violence, any drugs or any underage girls. Never."
Gorr, who is Gristina's second husband, was previously in the news back in 1991 when he saved his mother from a man who had broken into their home in Sullivan County, New York and was "raping and stabbing" her. He was stabbed several times in the encounter, and received a letter of commendation from president George H.W. Bush. "I remember bubbles coming out of my chest as I was chasing him," Gorr said at the time.
Gristina's attorney Peter Gleeson told the paper, "These are not villains. She is a lovely mother of four. This is a lovely family." Gristina is still being held on $2 million bail.
