Well, not in so many words, but who’s going to quibble over something like that.  In this  New York Lawyer piece about my ersatz good buddy, Joe Francis, or Girls Gone Wild fame, my gut reaction was confirmed.  You remember Joe?  He was the subject of an attempt to scam Simple Justice into  blawging for the cause a while back.

Joe has a bunch of legal problems, ranging from the expected tax evasion to using video of underage girls in his soft-core porn business.  He was framed, he’ll tell you. 

But the good thing about making $29 Million off young women willing to bare their breasts, as well as engage in other things that I assure you will not please their parents, is that you can afford to hire Roy Black as your attorney. 

You would think that Joe Francis would show his attorney a little respect.  But no.  Joe has decided to launch a web media campaign to prove his innocence, because “Marketing is what I do best.”

Joe Francis, 34, engineered the ad campaign to gain support from any audience that will listen to his twisted legal story, which began in Panama City Beach in 2003 and now has him in a Nevada jail cell.

So what does his lawyer think of this scheme?  Not much, apparently.

His attorney, Miami uber-lawyer Roy Black, jokes that Francis might be less self destructive if he were classified as an enemy combatant.   “That way he wouldn’t have access to a phone,” said Black.

But with a client who is so determined to “market” his way to freedom, the road can get rocky.

“Joe and I have had numerous yelling contests over this and I keep telling him how he’s screwing up his case.” Black said. “I’m sure the state and federal prosecutors are going to use some of the things he says against him.”

And so I feel honored that Joe Francis felt that Simple Justice was such a powerful presence in the blawgosphere that we were a part of his marketing campaign, despite advice of counsel.  And for  those kids who couldn’t smell a rat when I received the simple, innocent email request to help poor Joe Francis, take a lesson from Roy Black.  Listen to Greenfield.