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Sky Lopez shows up to her first Tampa Show event Saturday night, October 8.

She tells me she's going to be on a hip-hop album cover, as well as in a mainstream movie and she's recording a hip-hop album.

She's directed a couple of movies for Sineplex but hasn't performed in porn for 18-months.

Sky writes on MySpace:

Aloha, some call me Sky Lopez, "but you can call me Springbreak!" You might know me from the adult industry. You may have seen me in Playboy Magazine, Penthouse, Club, XXL, Revolver, Playboy TV, E-Channel, VH1 or many other places. I am no longer in the Adult Industry because I found the Lord last May and have been on a Christian walk. I am by no means perfect or sinless (who is but God?) but I do try everyday to build my relationship with him and to be a better person.

On her blog June 22, 2005, Sky writes:

SAY THIS SLOWLY: Jesus----I----Love-----You-----and------Need-----You---- Repost this within 5 minutes and a miracle will happen tonight.

Sky tells me Saturday night: "I started going to church. I needed it to center me and to connect to God."

She doesn't go to church much anymore. She's starting an organization for girls to let them know that they have choices aside from professional sex work.

Missy Monroe (dressed as a police officer) says she washed 30 cars for a Nightmoves Katrina fundraiser Saturday afternoon. Then she did two sex scenes, cleaned up and came out to tonight's club and signed for a couple of hours.

I ask her if she's had breast implants. "No," she says. "I'm just wearing a bra."

Ashley Blue smokes Durall cigarettes, "grandma cigarettes." When she house-sat for people, she'd go in their closet and take their Durall's. "That's how white-trash I am. Other people steal jewelry and things of value. I just went for the cigarettes."

Missy Monroe's father is in the strip club but I don't meet him until Sunday night.

Beater complains that the service is the worst he's had in a strip club in 25-years. He's drunk much of the Tampa Show.

Rachel complains that she's had to wait two hours for a drink. "Can we have a big sign that says 'Suck'."

Rachel says she shouldn't be drinking because she's in training, but as we're only down here for a few days...

She grabs my microphone. "Me so horny, baby. Me love you long time."

In a side room, Beater gets Mike South's lover Rachel to write a message on his penis with a felt pen. Then she licks him. Down there. For free.

"Women are always doing this to me," says a triumphant Beater.

I don't know who's more drunk -- him or Rachel.

A 39-year old bartender tells Mike that she wants him in Heaven with her because she knows he can f---.

Then she follows up: "I have to know your social security number before I'll let you eat my pussy."

Mike: "I'm a porn star and a director."

Woman: "I don't want to hear any of that."

Despite Mike's best efforts, they don't hook up.

Porno Dan (based in Baltimore) had a disappointing day in Orlando with Daphne Rosen, Jersey Jaxin and a porn newcomer on FM 104.1 WTKS. The girls were kicked off the air after seven minutes because the new girl (from Washington D.C.) kept using profanity.

The porn girls were used as eye-candy on stage for hours and they feel exploited.

Heather Pink's boyfriend Andrew (Heather, BF) used to sleep with Madelyn Night. Heather says Madelyn was volatile and often trashed her to Andrew.

He found photos of her on an escorting site. Madelyn said it was a lie. She didn't escort. That she would sue.

She never sued because she did work as a hooker.

Madelyn's packed on the pounds.

Heather and her boyfriend put on live sex shows at the pool Saturday and Sunday nights, getting kicked out of the pool each time after a few minutes. He looks like a porn guy but owns and operates a clothing store in Manhattan.

In a few weeks, Digital Playground contract star Jesse Jane is marrying Tawny Roberts' tall ex-boyfriend Rich Handsome.

Mike South says he gives speeches to alternative filmmaking classes and they analyze the components of his pornos.

I bug Mike that his favorite new blonde hottie Amber has been spending nights with Billy Glide.

Mike says she does eight-balls of cocaine. This has turned him off her. "I don't need a tweaker. I demand a certain level of professionalism from girls who represent me."

Luke: "You're just mad that Billy got there before you?"

Mike: "He got sloppy seconds."

Luke: "How do you know she did cocaine?"

Mike: "She said she needed a bump...and when she came back down to the pool she was twitching and had white stuff under her nose."

I'm sure there's an innocent explanation. How can you tell if a girl does cocaine regularly?

Mike: "Look at her skin. They'll have a gaunt face. They'll wear a lot of make-up to hide the blemishes on their skin."

Luke: "How do you know Amber indulged?"

Mike: "When they go up at night and come back down to the pool with white powder on their lip and their snorting and they tell you, 'I don't normally do this. I needed a bump tonight to stay awake.' If they know the word 'bump,' they're doing cocaine."

Cheyenne: "Or if they make a point of telling people who might have it that they're really tired."

I ask Mike if he has trouble relating to women his own age (almost 48).

Mike: "Absolutely. They have trouble relating to me too."

I ask Ethan Cage if he would let his wife Lexi Lamour work with Mike. He says she wouldn't because they're all friends. It would be too weird. Ethan says it's the same with Felicia Fox, Stormy, Katie Morgan.

Mike says he won't work with Felicia Fox.

But she gives you blowjobs.

"For Fifi, giving a blowjob is like shaking hands."

Heather Pink: "I imagine hell is all the fun people boiling in a pot."

Mike: "That's what we're doing here in Tampa."

Heather wants to have a tacky porn wedding at the AVN show in Las Vegas, with all the bridesmaids dressed in stripper gear.

"A tacky porn wedding is really not like me because in my real life I'm really classy."

Missy Monroe's cute 18-year old sister comes by Saturday but after a few hours, Missy tells her to go home (for making negative remarks).

Sunday night I meet Missy's father. He drives trucks for the Salvation Army. How did he find out his daughter was doing porn? His roommate subscribes to Barely Legal. One day the roomie said to him, "Here's something you should look at."

I ask him why he's at the Nightmoves show. He says he wants to be supportive of his daughter.

8:15pm. Missy says she's had five beers and a daquiri. She's nervous about going on stage.

Amber claims to have imbibed a similar amount of alcohol.

Ron Jeremy does five minutes of stand-up and makes fun of porn stars who cancel shoots because of religious holidays. "I can't do that eight-man bukkake because Jesus was born today."

9:45pm. Sky Lopez can't be found to give out an award.

I meet Jenny Hendrix, 19, and her newcomer friend Kylie Kennedy. I'm not sure either are long for porn. I think it bores them. Kylie's jealous that I've brought along a book to help me through the night.

After the show, I return back to the hotel in the limo with the porn girls. Brooke Haven and Trina call their men. "Who's that bitch answering the phone?" Trina asks.

Brooke says her parents were both in prison. "Even though my parents had a rough life, I came out pretty damn good."

They don't know she does porn.

When Haven has sex or masturbates, she's loud.

Brooke (who lives with Trina Michaels) complains that when she masturbates (and you can hear it through the house) that Trina won't come into the room.

Trina sits quietly.

Lexi Marie (the 19-year old blonde Vivid girl) roomed with Brooke and Trina until they kicked her out.

They say she burned down their balcony and accidentally let their cat out.

In the first few hours of Monday morning, I take on everyone I can in races across the swimming pool. I lose every contest except for when I cheat and hold the girls back. Jenny Hendrix (her boyfriend Jack Slade is working on the computer in his room) was on her highschool swim team. She hasn't done a porn scene in months.

Ron Jeremy's impressed by my approach. "It's like saying you're the world's greatest lover and then afterwards saying, well, I tried."

I challenge Ron to a race. He wants to know how far I can swim underwater.

"One lap," I admit.

He's not impressed. He can do at least two. It's not worth it to him to get his hair wet and lose some coloring in the chlorine.

"I have to dye the s--- out of my hair," he says.

Charlee Chase Interview

I meet the buxom blonde at the Tampa Show. We talk Thursday, Oct 6.

A mother of two, she's done about 30 movies.

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Growing up in Delaware, Charlee moved to Tampa eight years ago when she was 19.

Luke: "How come there's so much Adult stuff here?"

Charlee: "Actually, there's more fetish stuff here. The Adult stuff is in Fort Lauderdale and Miami."

Luke: "Do they tie you up?"

Charlee: "Here? Yes. I wrestle. I do all the foot fetishes. I love it all. I only do what I like."

As a kid, Charlee longed to grow up to be a hermit. "I was in a modeling competition at five, and I said I wanted to be a hermit because I hated people.

"Now I've come to the conclusion that people rock my world."

Luke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool. I was a cheerleader. I was a popular girl. I was a straight-A student until I got pregnant at 15 (she first had sex at 14). All of a sudden, my popularity went pfft. They said, 'Oh, you can't hang out and have fun anymore.' It's all good though. I can't wait for my [ten-year] reunion this year. I'm going to go back and be like, 'F--- you all. I'm bigger than all of you.'"

Luke: "Have you always had large breasts?"

Charlee: "Yes. I hit 13 and I was by far the largest girl in the school. After I breastfed a couple of kids, I got implants. I'm a 36DD. I'm a natural blonde.

"When I moved to Florida, my mom had cancer. I came to help her out. She lost her job in telemarketing. We needed money. I started dancing. I loved the attention. I made contacts and went into porn eight years ago.

"Porn has opened me up. I grew up, our family didn't talk. Now I talk. I say, hey mom, I'm about to do a gangbang. She says, 'That's cool. How many guys?' I only did four. I do it in my personal as well as professional life."

Have you seen this escort ad featuring Keri Sable?

I don't think it's real for many reasons, including that Keri, a Wicked girl and Brad Armstrong's girlfriend, is now brunette.

Heather Pink Interview

I met her at the Tampa Show last Thursday, Oct 6.

She's a nice Jewish girl (the youngest of five children) who went to Brandeis University before transferring to the University of Miami where she graduated with degrees in journalism and political science.

Before porn, she worked as a dancer and as a secretary at an investment banking firm. She got into sex work for the money.

Heather grew up in New York (she now lives in Manhattan), attending at times a Reform synagogue with her family. At age 12, she had a bat mitzvah. "My brother had a better one."

She says she's been reading me since 1998.

"I wish I would've stayed at Brandeis. I would've turned out a lot better. I had the grades. I was intelligent in that way. But I was very immature at 19 and I wanted to go to Florida."

Luke: "What do you love and hate about being in porn?"

Heather: "In New York, they're not used to seeing porn people. I'm like their porn star. I get into clubs that are difficult to get in. I get my drinks for free."

Heather calls Madelyn Night a "pathological liar."

She's been in a relationship with Andrew for a year.

Before implants, Heather was flat-chested. She didn't wear a bra. Now she's a 32D.

Thursday night in the limo on the way to a club (there are about 20 of us, such as Lexi Lamour, Kami Andrews, Lexi Amour, Charlie Taylor, Kelly Taylor, Vivian West, and about half a dozen photographers):

Jersey Jaxin married August 13, eight days after she met the guy. They've bought a six-bedroom, three-bedroom, three-car garage in the Valley, which they will rent out to porners to shoot at.

Katie Gold and Jersey traded puppies.

Katie is drunk. She slurs her words and makes little sense. She collapses on the seat beside me. People roll their eyes.

I say into my tape recorder: "I'm sitting next to a very emotional Katie Gold."

Katie: "I'm not very emotional, you asshole.

"I give a goddamn, quite honestly."

Kami talks about her six months at Extreme. "She says everyone's got to go through that screwing over. It's a speedbump on your road."

She describes Extreme and Evolution Erotica as just shells of their former selves.

I meet Porno Dan, who's been in porn for six years and lives in Baltimore.

Kelly Taylor says she was raised with fear. That kept her twice from getting married. So she became a stripper and nude model (and she did a masturbation video).

Luke: "Where did you go wrong?"

Kelly: "There's no good or bad in my life. It's just a different part."

It took her a year to tell her dad about her Adult work.

Kelly says her dancing clients often want conversation.

"I just show them my butt," says Kami Andrews. "I'm a house dancer."

Kelly and Kami are both dyslexic. Kelly says she used to pronounce "genre" as GEN-ray. Kami says she pronounced "segue" as SEG-oo-ee.

Kami imitates a stereotypical stripper: "I'm getting my Masters. Snort, shake, sniffle, rattle. Right now it's in the bathroom."

Kelly says she feels bad when clients tell her they want to help her pay for college. "I tell them I've already been there. I have a degree in photography."

Kami tells them: "That just makes you feel better about exploiting me."

Nightmoves publisher Paul Allen uses a translator because he's losing his voice.

Paul says the club is putting on a special show tonight.

"It's a special fifth-grade presentation of Fiddler on the Roof," says Kami.

There's a swingclub connected to the strip club. Some porn stars wander over to watch civilians have sex. None of the porners participate.

Brooke Haven was a stripper for five years. She met future Vivid girl Lexi Marie "who brought me along with her. It'll be a year tomorrow."

She's done over 150 movies through her agent LADirectModels.com.

As a kid, Brooke wanted to become a doctor. In highschool, she had a B average. She hung out with the jocks (played volleyball and basketball).

Our interview petered out after two minutes.

Vivian and Sunny Lane appear in a forthcoming pilot for Comedy Central with Ron Jeremy.

A dancer for two years, Vivian has been in porn for a year. This is her second Tampa Show.

Sunny is a Tampa native but this is her first show.

Vivian's performing in the Nightmoves awards show. She's concerned that what she has planned is illegal -- she'll be giving a fake bunny rabbit a blowjob and it will ejaculate on her face.

Amazingly, that's considered a lewd act in Tampa.

I don't see her do it Sunday night.

Sean Michaels says he's feeling separation anxiety over leaving his four-month old daughter at home in LA. He didn't suffer the same way when separated from his son.

After a couple of hours of socializing, I sit in a corner and read my book on William Faulkner.

This catches the attention of Tampa-native Christy Wild (Christywild.net). When she comes over to talk to me, I turn the tables and start interviewing her.

She dances down the street at Deja Vu and does movies (about 200).

Christy moved to Tampa to attend the Christian Florida College. She was ejected after two-and-a-half-years for fornication.

As a kid, Christy wanted to become a nurse, teacher, and most of all, writer. She has a blog on livejournal.

"My parents sent me to college to get an MRS degree, but I never [otherwise] felt the pressure to become anything particular. It was more, do whatever you feel you is best."

Luke: "Do you respect men who patronize strip clubs?"

Christy: "I do for those men who respect the rules. I do not for men who come in thinking they can get a date, thinking we'll take them in the back and ---- their brains out. It's not going to happen. I'm not losing my job over the $200 you think it's worth to you."

Christy lost her virginity at 19 in a golf tunnel. "At that point I was going to the Christian college and I couldn't exactly have sex on campus. So my boyfriend and I snuck away to the golf course."

Christy slept with only two men before she was kicked out of her college -- her ex-boyfriend and her current one. They're swingers.

In her spare time, she loves to read and write.

Her family does not know she works in porn and as a stripper.

Luke: "What do you tell them you do for a living?"

Christy: "That I work at Victoria Secret. I know deep down that they're going to find out sooner or later."

Sunday, Oct 9. 1:50pm. Beside the pool of Paul and Tracy Allen of Nightmoves USA.

Mari Possa moved to the U.S. at age seven from El Salvador.

When she was a kid, she wanted to become an astronaut. "When I die, I want my ashes spread in outer space."

What was it like to have two Harvard-educated parents?

"Hard. Expectations like you wouldn't believe, but I've always been the rebel."

On her 18th birthday (while still in highschool), Mari Possa got drunk for the first time (vodka and orange juice) with a friend. "First period went by, we're fine. Second period went by, we're tipsy. Third period, we're really drunk. I'm the TA (teacher's assistant for gym class). I have to warm up the students. I have trouble getting dressed. I fall on my face. I was taken to the nurse. I got suspended for two days. My parents had to come in and talk to my teachers. I got pulled off the prom committee.

"Aside from that, I never got in trouble. I got away with everything.

"I grew up in Reseda. I went to Reseda Elementary and Reseda High School. Then to Pierce College."

Mari hung out with the cool crowd.

Luke: "What was your reputation?"

Mari: "Everybody thought I was the biggest slut in highschool, but I was a virgin until I was almost 21 [though she had sex with a girl at 16]. I was like the dog that barked but didn't bite. Everything that came out of my mouth was sex-related. I don't know why I was so obsessed with sex. Maybe because my parents never talked about it."

Luke: "What were you expected to become?"

Mari: "I was voted Most Likely To End Up At Bob's Classy Lady [the former name of a Valley strpi club].

"I never knew what Bob's Classy Lady was."

Luke: "What kind of a relationship did you have with your father?"

Mari Possa: "Until I was 14, a great relationship. Then I started dating, and we grew apart. I wouldn't talk to him about my things. Until this day, our communication is not great. My mom has always been there for me.

"Neither of my parents agree with porn or want me to be in it. They think it's a phase. Now they're like, when are you going to snap out of it? I say, I'm not going to. This is it."

Her parents haven't met her boyfriend Adam Glasser. "My mom has a problem with his age." Mari Possa is 24. Adam is 41. Mari's mom is 45. Her dad is 49.

Luke: "Have you ever spent time in jail?"

Mari: "No. The closest I got was when my girlfriend had to spend the night in jail for drunk driving and I stayed in the car outside the jail. I wanted to be supportive. She went into a cell that had a phone and we were on the phone the whole night. We were 21."

Luke: "How has the show Family Business affected your life?"

Mari: "It's put me in the spotlight. It's made me more conscious of myself and what I say."

Mari says she once told me something she thought was off-the-record but that I printed (not realizing).

Luke: "How would you assess U.S. - El Salvador relations?"

Mari: "I had a good childhood. I didn't know we were going through a war. My parents never exposed us to anything. I grew up very sheltered."

Luke: "What do you love and hate about the porn industry?"

Mari: "I love the open-mindedness of it. I hate that we're not a good example for society for safe sex. If anybody should be, it should be the porn industry."

Luke: "Are you condom-only?"

Mari: "No."

Luke: "What do you want out of life?"

Mari laughs. "What everybody wants. Happiness. I don't want to have kids and I don't believe in marriage. I want a wedding simply for the gown. I just want to be healthy. I'm a hypochondriac."

Luke: "Who do you hate the most in the industry?"

Mari: "I don't hate. Not a lot makes me mad. I'm very passive."

Brooke Haven says Mari only gets mad when Brooke's ass gets big.

Mari: "All of my friends have been very supportive even though they're not into porn at all."

Luke: "Why did you get breast implants?"

Mari: "Because when I started doing porn and I looked at myself, I thought I looked too much like a little girl. I thought with boobs, I'd look more womanly."

Luke: "Did it change the way people related to you, particularly men?"

Mari: "No. I've always attracted attention from men."

Adam Glasser hasn't done a scene in over a year.

Dan Beck (owns and runs a satellite porn channel) came down to Tampa from New York with three cameramen. Only one is left. One, Dan Mandelbaum (his family owns the department store chain), antagonized Flower Tucci to the point where she threw a DVD at him. Beck sent Mandelbaum home.

In the pool Monday afternoon, Beater teamed up with Daphne Rosen and Brooke Haven to try to pants me. I fought valiantly...and in this fallen world, that's the best we can do.

A friend comments: "Yes, and you looked so upset at being defeated. You poor thing. How terrified you must have been."

I like how the NightmovesUSA.com site says: "We do not promote prostitution, drugs, or excessive alcohol abuse. We are not acting in any way to send you this information; you are choosing to receive it!"

Yet they give awards to the Best Escort and the Best Escort Service in Tampa Bay.

Things lawyers make you do.

About 20 porn stars and 80 other folks show up to porn star karaoke in Ybor City Monday night, Oct 10. The cavernous club is largely empty. Some fans outside ask for Carmen Luvana and Jesse Jane who have already left Tampa.

Kelly Taylor asks me for the name of a Beatles song. I say Strawberry Fields Forever. I thought she meant it for her.

Ten minutes later, I'm called up to the mic and have to sing in public for the first time since I can remember. I'm terrible.

An hour later, I hear one guy (who does a duet with Paul Allen) say, "I was never going to get up to sing, but if Luke can do it..."

I talk to a young porn girl. "What's the point of doing porn?" she asks. "I've seen [two of porn's millionaire performers] still doing crack."

Mike South tells me: "Most of the businessmen in this business are in this business because they would fail in real business. From my background in real business, most of these people would not stand a chance. They're not professional enough. They have no business sense or business ethics."

Heather Pink says her mother describes Canadians as "sophisticated Mexicans."

During a recent trip to Amsterdam, her father asked her mom, for the first time, for a blowjob. The mom refused. She's never given a blowjob in her life.

Mike, 47, has The Beverly Hillbillies tune on his cell phone.

He boasts that he has sex with women half his age and gets paid for it.

I ask Cheyenne if she felt cheapened by fluffing Mike before a scene. "Hell no," she says. "What's a blowjob between friends?"

During Saturday afternoon's car wash (Oct 8), Lori Alexia got up on a black Ferrari in her highheels and wore away the paint. The owners got free tickets to the awards show.

Friday afternoon, the hotel's concierge, during a walk from the front of the hotel to the back, was told by ten different people that girls (Cheyenne and Heather Pink) were topless by the pool (while kids were around). The girls put their tops back on when they were asked to.

Also Friday, a memo went around to all hotel employees that they were not to socialize with the guests.

Saturday night over dinner, I ask Mike how the parents of Korean stripper Rachel would react to him.

"They'd like me," he says, adjusting his baseball cap, which reads "asshole."

"I'm respectful."

Mike says he's friends with the parents of a lot of the women he's worked with in porn. Jenny St. James's father said that ever since she was a little girl, she could point out on the TV who the hookers were. "She was always going to work in porn," he said. "I'm glad she hooked up with someone who would treat her fairly."

A couple of years ago, Mike told a big black male friend, Isaac (a DJ at The Doll House for 17 years, now a manager of clubs, and babysitter), that there was nothing wrong with him that a nice little Asian girl couldn't fix. The next day, Isaac introduced Mike to Rachel and the rest is history.

Mike: "I'm doing my best to further foreign relations."

Rachel giggles: "Now he wants to conquer Japan."

Isaac: "Mike is the greatest redneck pimp I know."

Cheyenne sits with her head in her hand. She can't believe she's stuck at the table with me.

Haley, Cheyenne, Mike and company complain about the poor service while this cute little blonde waittress, Kaylin, hussles back and forth, doing the best she can.

A couple of hours ago, Mike smeared red lipstick on Rachel. "Oh great," she said. "Now I look like a whore."

She went home to change and arrived to dinner 40-minutes late.

Is Rachel usually late? Yes.

Mike points to her and yells, "Best dancer in all of Tampa [according to Nightmoves magazine]."

Rachel slaps him and tells him to shush. There are families all around us.

Isaac tells Rachel: "You need Jesus."

Rachel: "I've got Jesus in my heart."

Ashley Blue: 'The Tampa Show was the Biggest Waste of Time Ever'

She writes on XPT:

First of all, my "motel" room (paid for by NightMoves) had cockroaches in it. I am actually not sure what was worse: the cockroaches in my room or the human cockroaches that made up the majority of the "talent" that showed up. There were a few cool people like Missy, Tyler, Katie Gold, Carmen Luvana, Jesse Jane, Sean Micheals,etc., that probably had no idea that this event was so low budget and ghetto. The others (such as the people in the pictures on this site) like Jersey Jaxin, were just sprung losers that were trying to promote their "stardom" in the porn industry. For the most part, it was a bunch of sleazy wannabees that were trying to act important.

Gen Padova writes: "What did we leaaaaarrrrrnnnn??? TO NEVER GO TO NIGHTMOVES AGAIN!!! DUH!!! JEFF... I thought you knew better than to send Ashley, or did she do this herself? hehehehehe."

Chrystal Waters Foundation

On the 4th of July weekend 2005 Jamie (Chrystal Waters) and her husband Drew were out on Lake OkaBoji in Iowa. She decided to go for a swim and dove in head first not realizing that the water was only about 3 feet deep. She instantly upon impact snapped her neck crushing her 6th vertebra and damaging her spinal cord. After seeing her body go limp Drew and the boats captain immediately rushed to her aid and her got back on the boat unaware of her condition, she was only able to move her baby pinky and she was able to utter "call my dad". Drew and the boats captain sped for the shore and on the way they called 911, A chopper was waiting to airlift her to AVARA McKINNEN HOSPITAL in Sioux Falls SD. Once there the doctors discoverd the damage: 2 damaged vertebrea c6 and c7, these are located near where your neck meets your shoulders. And this type of injury usually means a lifetime of care, some of you may be familiar with the Christopher Reeves injury,this was very similar in nature, So after careful examination the doctors rushed her into surgery where they installed metal plates on her spine to reinforce her neck and relieve pressure off the spinal cord. At this time they also treated her for a large gash on her skull.

You can make donations to Waters' account at Bank of America: 003287010757