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A Massachusetts woman pleaded guilty on Friday to running a high-end brothel network in the greater Boston area and the suburbs of Washington that served wealthy and well-connected clientele including politicians, corporate executives, lawyers and military officers.

Han Lee appeared in Boston federal court to plead guilty to charges that she conspired to persuade, induce and entice primarily Asian women to travel to Massachusetts and Virginia to engage in prostitution and committed money laundering.

She was the first to admit wrongdoing of the three individuals who prosecutors charged in November in connection with a sex ring run out of apartment complexes in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts and Fairfax and Tysons, Virginia.

Lee, 42, faces up to 25 years in prison when she is sentenced Dec. 20. She stressed when addressing U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick that while she ran an illegal prostitution business, she did not force any women to engage in sex work.

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[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't have to look to other countries for this, prostitution is legal in many counties in NV.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the law was written in a way to keep it out of all major cities in Nevada.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For sure. I'm just saying that you can examine the social effects of legalizing prostitution in a US context already.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 month ago

You're right in that the trade is legalized, but it is really hard to analyze the social effects as the only state to legalize it has purposefully kept the trade away from most civilization. You have to go out of your way to go to a Nevada brothel in a way you don't have to in other countries.

Hell, it is probably a reason why Vegas has a prostitution problem in the city.