Microsoft leader, former Amazon director charged in prostitution sting

KIRO7.COM ^ | 13 MAY 2016 | AMY CLANCY

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Charges have been filed against additional men – including a leader from Microsoft and a former Amazon director – for promoting prostitution after investigators said they met with victims of sex trafficking at high-end Bellevue apartments.

One of those charged is Sumit Virmani, the director of worldwide health for Microsoft.

Using the names "Appy" and "Jaytee," investigators said Virmani submitted over 70 reviews of prostitutes he had allegedly hired since April 2012, according to investigators.

When asked about Virmani’s employment status, a spokeswoman for WE Worldwide -- Microsoft’s PR company -- said she couldn’t comment because it’s a “law enforcement matter.”

[InvisibleChurch]

Because Microsoft and Apple just don’t pay enough.

[a fool in paradise]

rent boys?

[SunLakesJeff]

Where in Bellevue? [have not read article]

[SunLakesJeff]

tech leaders are two of six local men charged late last month in King County Superior Court with promoting prostitution in the second degree – a felony charge. All have been added to the 12 men and one woman arrested and charged when TheReviewBoard.net was shut down in January. The sex workers operated out of high-end apartments in Bellevue and were the victims of sex trafficking, according to King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg. “These defendants, we allege, were absolutely devoted to the commercial sexual exploitation of vulnerable, powerless immigrant women,” Satterberg said shortly after the initial arrests in January. Police said the women were forced into prostitution to pay off debts to organized crime bosses in Asia. The women will NOT be charged with any crime. But now their alleged johns are.

Mods please remove if I have cited too much.

[Enterprise]

Running a search on KIRO 7, it appears this is in the State of Washington.

[SunLakesJeff]

Thank you. KIRO is the CBS affiliate in Seattle. I was joking about "where in Bellevue?"

[llevrok]

the director of worldwide health for Microsoft

Damn that ObamaCare !

[PROCON]

operated out of high-end apartments in Bellevue..

I used to live in Bellevue, it's a wealthy suburb of Seattle. ALL apartments are high-end.

[SunLakesJeff]

it's a wealthy suburb of Seattle

Was a Seattle native until 2008. Check out Factoria/Kennydale. Not to quibble.

[PROCON]

To put it in perspective, when "I lived" in Bellevue, Microsoft wasn't a company yet, LOL!

There was no Kennydale either.

[SunLakesJeff]

There was no Kennydale either.

Creature of the Nineties.

[PROCON]

Creature of the Nineties.

So is the city of Sammamish, which I helped build as an electrical contractor back in the day. A lot of BIG money out there.

Incidentally, Sammamish is also the name of the High School I graduated from.

I still like Seattle and visit my daughter who lives there, but it has turned into a liberal, socialist cesspool.

[SunLakesJeff]

I still like Seattle and visit my daughter who lives there, but it has turned into a liberal, socialist cesspool.

Why I left in 2008. Sister and family still there in Woodinville hanging in there. Thicker political skin have they /yoda

[goodnesswins]

Got ya beat... I used to play on The Bel Red Road

[PROCON]

Got ya beat... I used to play on The Bel Red Road

HA! We used to drive our dirt bikes off the Bel-Red road woods on the way to Redmond back in the late 60's...

[Organic Panic]

These guys have lots of money. They can’t find discretion. Or heck, jump on a plane and head to Mexico where it’s legal.

[VerySadAmerican]

Prostitutes aren’t paid to have sex. They’re paid to leave afterwards.

[VerySadAmerican]

I was joking. Apparently these women weren’t prostitutes. They were slaves.

[Pelham]

3rd world family values