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BOSTON, Nov. 8-US prosecutors yesterday 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 Boson did not identify any of the "wealthy and well-connected clientele" that they say paid up to US$600 (RM2807) per hour for sexual encounters with predominantly Asian women who were being exploited through sex trafficking. The brothels alleged operators--Han Lee, 41 and Junmyung Lee, 30, of Massachusetts and James Lee, 68, of California--were arrested ad charged with conspiring to...

A network of "sophisticated" high-end brothels in greater Boston and eastern Virginia provided sex for pay to "elected officials, high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances, professors," and others, federal prosecutors said Wednesday...Charged in the case were Han "Hana" Lee, 41, Junmyung Lee, 30, and 68-year-old James Lee.

AMSTERDAM is to close down nearly one-third of the 350 prostitution "windows" in the Dutch city's famed red light district, as part of a crackdown on crime in the area.The city council said a 2003 law allowed it to deny or revoke brothels' licences when it suspected operators would use them for money-laundering or other illegal financial activity, "which in concrete terms means that those involved won't be able to continue their businesses" after 1 January, the council said in a statement. "We're not knights on a morality crusade, and this is intended to target financial crime, not prostitution per...

For sale: the Bunny Club, Miss Susies and Moon's House. Great locations. Must be converted to legitimate businesses or homes. Going to the highest bidder. Once flourishing as three of Spenard's most infamous dating and escort businesses -- and police targets for years as thriving haunts of prostitution and other crimes -- the houses are going on the auction block sometime this spring.They stand empty now, taken over by federal authorities. Blinds shut, strings of Christmas lights turned off and business signs sun bleached, they have, for all intents and purposes, already been stripped of their pasts."Everybody in Anchorage...

Mini-brothels get go-ahead to operate on your doorstep By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor(Filed: 18/01/2006) Your view: time for change?Prostitutes will be allowed to work together in mini-brothels under plans published by the Government yesterday.   New laws will see prostitutes getting help for drug and alcohol problems rather than being fined At present, only a single prostitute working from home or a room escapes prosecution provided she does not solicit for business. Premises with two or more women offering sex are defined as brothels and are unlawful.The Government aims to change the legal definition to allow three individuals,...