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Re: DOJ announces arrests in 'high-end brothel network' used by elected officials, military officers and others
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Nov 9, 2023, 2:40:03 AM11/9/23
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Three individuals have been arrested on charges of operating a
“high-end brothel network” in Massachusetts and Virginia with a
clientele that included elected officials, military officers and
government contractors with security clearances, the Justice
Department announced Wednesday.
“Pick a profession,” Joshua Levy, acting US attorney for
Massachusetts, said of the sprawling client list during a press
conference in Boston. “They’re probably represented in this case.”
Levy did not identify any of the brothel’s clients and noted that
multiple search warrants are being executed in the case in
Massachusetts, California and Virginia.
Han Lee, 41, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; James Lee, 68, of
Torrance, California; and Junmyung Lee, 30, of Dedham, Massachusetts
have been charged with conspiracy to coerce and entice to travel to
engage in illegal sexual activity. They are expected to appear in
federal court in Boston Wednesday or at a later date.
The three individuals, Levy said, transported women and advertised
them online for pre-approved clients to choose from through several
websites and ran the brothels out of apartments they rented.
“This case goes back to the summer of 2022 when investigators
identified several buyers through surveillance phone records and
interviews,” Levy said. “The buyers who made up this ring hail from
an array of professions.”
“There are potentially hundreds of individuals who took these
services as commercial sex buyers,” Levy said, noting the
investigation is still in its early stages.
“Alleged prospective sex buyers in this scheme first had to respond
to a survey and provide information online, including their driver’s
license photos, their employer information, credit card information,
and they often paid a monthly fee to be part of this.”
The prostitution network primarily used two websites that advertised
appointments with Asian women, according to an affidavit filed in
court from a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations.
The agent said about 20 sex buyers were interviewed in connection
with the multiyear investigation. One customer described getting a
text of available options at a brothel, including the women
available, the sexual services and the hourly rate.
The agent said he believes the brothels are “high-end” because of
the high cost of the rental units used and the “scope of the
professional disciplines of the sex buyers.”
Customers are not named in the affidavit, according to the agent,
because the investigation into their involvement is “active and
ongoing.”
CNN has reached out to attorneys for Junmyung Lee and Han Lee. No
lawyer is listed for James Lee on the court docket.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/politics/high-end-brothel-network-
arrests/index.html
Three individuals have been arrested on charges of operating a
“high-end brothel network” in Massachusetts and Virginia with a
clientele that included elected officials, military officers and
government contractors with security clearances, the Justice
Department announced Wednesday.
“Pick a profession,” Joshua Levy, acting US attorney for
Massachusetts, said of the sprawling client list during a press
conference in Boston. “They’re probably represented in this case.”
Levy did not identify any of the brothel’s clients and noted that
multiple search warrants are being executed in the case in
Massachusetts, California and Virginia.
Han Lee, 41, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; James Lee, 68, of
Torrance, California; and Junmyung Lee, 30, of Dedham, Massachusetts
have been charged with conspiracy to coerce and entice to travel to
engage in illegal sexual activity. They are expected to appear in
federal court in Boston Wednesday or at a later date.
The three individuals, Levy said, transported women and advertised
them online for pre-approved clients to choose from through several
websites and ran the brothels out of apartments they rented.
“This case goes back to the summer of 2022 when investigators
identified several buyers through surveillance phone records and
interviews,” Levy said. “The buyers who made up this ring hail from
an array of professions.”
“There are potentially hundreds of individuals who took these
services as commercial sex buyers,” Levy said, noting the
investigation is still in its early stages.
“Alleged prospective sex buyers in this scheme first had to respond
to a survey and provide information online, including their driver’s
license photos, their employer information, credit card information,
and they often paid a monthly fee to be part of this.”
The prostitution network primarily used two websites that advertised
appointments with Asian women, according to an affidavit filed in
court from a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations.
The agent said about 20 sex buyers were interviewed in connection
with the multiyear investigation. One customer described getting a
text of available options at a brothel, including the women
available, the sexual services and the hourly rate.
The agent said he believes the brothels are “high-end” because of
the high cost of the rental units used and the “scope of the
professional disciplines of the sex buyers.”
Customers are not named in the affidavit, according to the agent,
because the investigation into their involvement is “active and
ongoing.”
CNN has reached out to attorneys for Junmyung Lee and Han Lee. No
lawyer is listed for James Lee on the court docket.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/politics/high-end-brothel-network-
arrests/index.html
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