Woman admits to running US brothel network
Woman admits to running US brothel network
A Massachusetts woman pleaded guilty on Friday to running a high-end brothel network in the greater Boston area and the suburbs of Washington that served wealthy and well-connected clientele including politicians, corporate executives, lawyers and military officers.
Han Lee appeared in Boston federal court to plead guilty to charges that she conspired to persuade, induce and entice primarily Asian women to travel to Massachusetts and Virginia to engage in prostitution and committed money laundering.
She was the first to admit wrongdoing of the three individuals who prosecutors charged in November in connection with a sex ring run out of apartment complexes in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts and Fairfax and Tysons, Virginia.
Lee, 42, faces up to 25 years in prison when she is sentenced Dec. 20. She stressed when addressing U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick that while she ran an illegal prostitution business, she did not force any women to engage in sex work.
Sex work should be legal as long as it is done willingly.Let them pay tax and work out of buildings. That would keep the women much safer than working on the streets and get into cars with people.
It turned out really well in NZ when we legalised it.
There's even a sex workers union.
We still have our share of christofacists and prosperity grifters though, they're just relatively politically impotent.
And in this specific case, none of the workers were street-level, getting into randos cars. That doesn't necessarily mean that all of the workers were willing participants, but I would bet that with the level of clientele involved, almost all were.
That's exactly what amsterdam did. Same with drugs. You make it legal, and you'll make it easier to regulate.
Fun fact: Red light district is an alcohol free zone. As alcohol tends to increase aggression. People aren't allowed to walk there while under influence.
And with some degree of oversight, for the safety and health of the workers and their clients.
We would create jobs, increase tax revenue, and people like Han Lee wouldn’t need to launder money, if we simply legalized prostitution.
Agreed. We should come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who coerces anybody to enter into prostitution, and leave everyone else alone.
Abusive pimps get the bullet, everyone else gets a 1040
Are any of the high end clientele facing charges?
Well, her new business is a subscription service to keep the pictures she has of them off the internet.
Lol.
Good one.
Surprisingly it looks like at least 40 clients have been referred to state courts for charges. We'll see.
Sex work should be legal, regulated, unionized.
Why is this a crime? I’d suck dick for enough money and I’m a cis male. People getting paid for their effort shouldn’t be a crime.
It's not in some counties in Nevada.
But everywhere else in the US, this is a no-no.
I'm trying to understand that middle sentence.
Being a cis male doesn't really affect whether you'd suck a dick, for money or otherwise. I can only assume you meant to put "hetero" [vs "homo"]. And I'd say you're pretty flexy on that "hetero" if you'd suck dick for any reason.
