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According to a stunning 67-page affidavit filed in US District Court in Boston, the network has operated brothels since at least July 2020 at locales including Cambridge, Watertown, and the DC suburbs of northern Virginia.
Charges come from an ongoing investigation that started in 2020 into an interstate prostitution network operating in Massachusetts and Virginia.
Three people have been charged with running a sophisticated commercial sex ring in Massachusetts and eastern Virginia that catered to well-connected clients such as elected officials and military officers, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.
COVID-19 relief loans were among the millions of dollars of assets identified across accounts linked to one of the three suspects, court documents reveal.
Hours after federal prosecutors busted an alleged high-end brothel network, users on online forums for escort services started freaking out.