Another story says"
"he charges are second-degree misdemeanors and generally carry no more than a 60-day sentence in county jail, according to Edmondson."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl...id=mailsignout
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Another story says"
"he charges are second-degree misdemeanors and generally carry no more than a 60-day sentence in county jail, according to Edmondson."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl...id=mailsignout
^^^well I think part of the reason these people got caught was cause the neighboring businesses noticed a lot of things out of the “ordinary”
A lot of males going in and out
Males frequenting the business after hours
And now mid/high end luxury vehicles pulling up in an lower class part of town.
Basically I’m trying to say is if a person wants to do illicit activities discreetly they are going to blend in to the scenery. Not stick out like a sore thumb. Dude may as well pulled up to the track in a Wraith
Not only that it’s still a slap in the face (economic disparities based on how those ladies were allegedly living in poverty) when dude is getting cheap rub n tugs but he splurges on transportation to get him there and the Madam is waltzing around in her luxury car hobnobbing with the likes of the morally defunct politicians
IF there was any trafficking that is just despicable, but as time goes on it seems that term was only used in the initial police press conference. No further mention or news that it was not all consenting adults.
https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/28/h...-chinese-women
The woman servicing Kraft was 58 years old. In addition to the payment at the front desk he is seen on camera tipping a '100 plus another bill'. His second visit was 14 minutes.
Now normally if you got stopped by police on your way home from a spa, and had to produce ID, most wouldn't go back the next day... Guess he thought they would't notice him if his driver used the Blue Bentley instead of the White one from the day before?!
I've read the indictments, followed most of the reports, nowhere is there a rational discussion. The Boston Globe comments are led by "rape culture" researchers that claim there can be no consent for any sex work, that it is rape, and most followers are white knights that agree. Deeper in the sand all the heads go.
https://cbs12.com/news/local/spa-02-19-2019
This article says they women allegedly slept in the spa, had no days off, had a high daily client roster, had no transportation and the madam was taking extremely high cuts thus further keeping them in poverty while her trifling ass rolled around in the laps of luxury
You are supposed to tip extra for extras!
How much of that $100 do you think the madam took?
And why couldn’t he just get some sex from some escorts within his class-level? Why did he have to troll the hood looking for sexual pleasure?
Cause he's cheap!
Miss, that cbs article is old and mostly inaccurate. Much more up-to-date news has come out since, including the article CFMN posted above. Conditions were not nearly as bad as initially reported and not only have they not identified any trafficked victims, but they are keeping the girls in jail on prostitution charges. Shit, in another story I read, law enforcement also seized the Bank of America account that belonged to the 58 year old who serviced Kraft and it had quite a lot of money in it.
The longer this goes on, the more ridiculous it looks for Homeland Security and the various other LE agencies involved. This was part of a multi-county sting operation in Florida and not a single charge of trafficking or coercion has been filed against anybody. Indeed, a number of so-called "victims" from 10 different spas are sitting in jail sells alongside the supposed traffickers. Also, contrary to early reports, almost all of these girls had valid massage licenses, yet many of them are getting the screws put to them with felony charges because they derived support from each other.
When this is all said and done, this is going to be a massive multi-agency resource expenditure for nothing more than a bit of morality policing. Worse though, there are going to be a lot of questions about how those warrants were obtained. By the time this all shakes out, I suspect that a lot of LE agencies and news outlets are going to have egg on their faces.
If Kraft was smart, he'd either hold out for trial or put the screws to them to sweeten the deal more because I strongly suspect that they do not want this to go to trial. If Kraft succeeded in getting those warrants tossed, then they could end up losing everything, including the felony charges on the so-called "victims."
In my area, (& I'm sure other areas) those spas are everywhere!
Sometimes, ya just want a Popeye's & not a surf n' turf!
Why don't they seize Rob's $$$ ?
He will probably hire several talented attorneys and probably succeed in having the charges quashed.
Well yeah he's got the dream team, but it's on camera, so he has to at least pay a FINE!
He might get the search warrant quashed and the video excluded.
I know it’s mentioned previously about the cheap factor but where does one cross the line between cheap and exploitative?
......And when being “cheap” costs $$$$$
The cost of cheap nut plus expensive power attorneys if caught = 75k+
The cost of a high class escort = 1-2k
So he’s not really saving money (so I personally don’t think money per say is a factor here), but he is taking high risk, he doesn’t care about his reputation, he thinks he is invisible/invincible, and probably has a sex addiction
I think this dude has dementia or something affecting his mental faculties and he should be court ordered into therapy.
Whoever watched him bust one on live probably needs therapy too.
Some thoughts:
Being cheap can co$t!
As far as the pimp(ettes) getting busted/fined/etc, low hanging fruit's easier to pick.
It's not called 'oldest profession' for nothing..
The crooks I mean cities, make $$$ off them.
Every once in a while they bust them/shake them down
Everyone pleads not guilty. It is our constitutional right. The state must prove its criminal charges. That means it must have admissible evidence. If the defendant can show how the warrants were somehow defective, everything obtained as a result of the warrant can be excluded as Fruit of the Poisonous Tree.
So the people on this site are once again smarter than I am - looks like he'll skate. The police work and federal agency work must have cost over 1m$ and the result? Lock up a 58 year old woman and take her money.
We don't know yet, but it will be interesting to watch, and embarrassing to police if their search is excluded.
Well, the news is in that Kraft has rejected the plea deal. Not only that, but reports say that no other defendant has accepted it either.
In the meantime, Kraft's lawyers collaborated with the lawyers for 14 other defendants to file a joint motion today to suppress the video evidence. You can bet that Kraft's attorneys were in the driver's seat on this one since many of those other defendants are blue collar workers with limited resources to pay for things like reviewing warrant affidavits, hiring video analysis experts, consulting third party LE procedural experts and all of the other stuff that that Kraft's attorneys are no doubt doing at great expense. If he is successful, they may all walk, including the girls.
So if one must get caught up in a legal trap, getting scooped up in the same one that catches a billionaire isn't necessarily the worst thing after all. ;)
At minimum the other defendants lawyers would be expected to get copies of everything Krafts' lawyers filed, and filing their own copies. Apparently everyone decided to board the gravy train.
I don’t understand. Why would police waste so much time and money to conduct a search that is illegal/ineffective. I mean I know the rogue ones do illegal shit/and sometimes they make mistakes but don’t they have to get clearance from say the department heads or experts?
From what I understand, they used a delayed notice search warrant which is not frequently used. I would think this strategy would require some sort of team consultation or something beforehand to ensure it’s implemented in a legal way so that evidence can be upheld in court.