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Boston, November 8. US prosecutors on Wednesday charged three people with running a high-end brothel network out of apartment complexes in greater Boston and northern Virginia whose customers included elected officials, tech and pharmaceutical executives, lawyers, professors and military officers...
Federal prosecutors in Boston did not identify any of the wealthy and well-connected clientele that they say paid up to $600 per hour for sexual encounters with predominantly Asian women who were being exploited through sex trafficking...
The brothels alleged operatorsHan Lee, 41, and Junmyung Lee, 30, of Massachusetts and James Lee, 68, of Californiawere arrested and charged with conspiring to coerce and entice women to travel to engage in illegal sexual activity...
According to charging documents, the defendants, led by Han Lee, used high-end apartment complexes as brothels in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, and Fairfax and Tysons, Virginia...
Customers included politicians, pharmaceutical and technology executives, doctors, military officers, professors, lawyers, business executives, scientists and accountants, prosecutors said..
