You are saying that Ruis had Shannan killed, to avoid prosecution, then he flips to the prosecution, to get leniency on the original charge, and the prosecution ignores the murder case completely?
How is that a win for the prosecution. What did Ruis give or who did he flip on that was so important, that the Feds would not care about a murder charge?
I am not aware of any case where Ruis, after Shannan's death, was a witness for the prosecution. Ruis would have to have been a witness for the Feds, if as you say he flipped.
I'm only looking at the timeline of events. Shannan is arrested in 2007 (and also 2008 I believe). Both arrests are while she is employed by Ruis, along with Pak and Diaz.
By 2008 Ruis was already being investigated by Hudson County PO for a large cocaine distribution ring that utilized limo services and escorts from services listed under three names to move his product. He utilized a large number of shell companies LLCs (and a Kebab restaurant!) to launder 3 million per year. This is only the cash he actually tried to claim as legit. At the end of this year long investigation, he is arrested. He, Shannan and one other co-defendant are listed. Shannan is not arrested when Ruis' businesses and homes are raided. She's just listed as a co-defendant at the indictment months later.
Ruis makes cash bail very quickly after his arrest and is not indicted until April 2010, still not detained. May 2010 Shannan is gone. June 2010 Ruis forges a trial and takes a plea for highly reduced charges and is sentenced to 5 years in federal prison. I think Shannan was strong armed by Hudson County to testify against Ruis.
The charges against Ruis were big. This was not a street pimp slinging coke. His business was set up (imo by a partner) very intelligently and he was moving alot of weight. If im a fed and I'm looking at someone like Ruis, Shannan is small potatos. I want to know who's above Ruis. To get that information I need to offer Ruis something so he'll tell me. But me, I dont have that information, i dont know what Ruis gave up. But it was enough to get him out in 2 years. And, to add to that, in 2012 Ruis filed a case against the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office naming DeFazio, the main prosecutor, as defendent. Ruis claimed he was owed 300k for goods and services rendered to HCPO. What goods and services did Ruis supply? I'm going to guess it wasn't 300k worth of shish-kebabs.
If you look up Ruis now, you'll find he served his term in federal prison, was released after 2 years, and moved to the West Coast where he began trafficking again - back to the North East Coast. The case transcripts in that newest case are borderline comical.
Im only proposing another lens through which to view Shannan's case. Im not contesting any other theories or claiming I know all the facts.
But I do know that Ruis was not detained when Shannan went missing. Shannan was listed in the original case as a co-defendant w Ruis not just for soliciting/prostitution. She was being charged, along w him, w manufacturing, possession and distribution. I don't think it's a far stretch to assume that NJ prosecutors could have convinced Shannan it was in her best interest to continue working for Ruis while also acting as a CI.
I don't think she or Pak actually stopped working for Ruis - I think Pak floated the story that he and Shannan working independently in order to distance himself from Ruis. In Ray's deposition of Pak Ray directly asks Pak if Shannan was involved with any members of NJ law enforcement sexually and also as an informant.
And during the time between Ruis' arrest and his plea deal, he was a free man. Feds could have (should have if they were at all competant) approached him to get to bigger players. At the very least who was supplying Ruis?
So, yes, like I said originally, I do think Ruis flipped for the feds.
So that would mean Shannan was working as a CI for NJ thinking she's still working for Ruis, meanwhile Ruis knows Shannan is going to testify against him, plus he's got the security net of a federal deal. It gets tangled up but I think it's a possibility.
As an aside, there is no way Shannan would've agreed to travel to some new client's house all the way in OB. This was a Friday night in Manhattan. She would not have been lacking for customers. And Brewer could have picked from hundreds of outcall escorts that were all within a radius of 15 to 30 minutes of him. Yet he choses Shannan, who is supposedly in Manhattan and wont arrive for hours. Logically it makes no sense on Brewer's part (unless he knew Shannan and Pak previously thru Ruis and knew that they provided more than sex).
The only way Shannan would've accepted that job (which according to Pak was $350/$400) was if there was something other than sex involved that would've increased the money, like the kind of jobs Ruis handled. Ruis wasn't selling $350 outcalls.
If Ruis knew Shannan was working as a CI against him and he had her and Pak go out to OB for what they thought would be a drop off (maybe sex was an included comp but Ruis was not laundering 3 mil a year from outcalls for a few hundred dollars - in fact his records showed credit card charges for 30k and one account for 100k. That's not sex) - if Ruis found out Shannan was a CI, sent her out to OB (remember, he's a cash bail free man at this point), she could've been confronted, if she was wearing a wire she could've been literally running for her life. When CI's are made they have a specific person to call to get help. She could've called that person (possibly while in the bathroom). Maybe her contact didnt answer and then out of panic she just called 911. That could've been the reason why the call lasted so long and why they won't release it. She would've tried to explain she was an informant, she was due to testify in a month against Ruis, her cover has been blown and now they're going to kill me.
I wouldn't want that call getting out if I were anywhere near that case.
Again, I'm not arguing. I'm putting out a possibility.
