The “booker” for a community of brothels in Higher Boston and Virginia has adopted his boss in pleading responsible to his half within the crime.
Junmyung Lee, 31, of Dedham, pleaded responsible in federal courtroom in Boston to expenses of coercion to prostitution and cash laundering conspiracy. U.S. District Courtroom Decide Julia E. Kobick scheduled sentencing for Feb. 12.
Junymung Lee’s plea follows that of the madame of the operation that attracted rich and influential — whose names are nonetheless legally hidden from public view — clientele. Han Lee, 42, of Cambridge, pleaded responsible to the identical expenses on Sept. 27 and is scheduled to be sentenced in December.
Prosecutors say that Han “Hanna” Lee recruited Korean ladies to work as prostitutes in her community of flats round Higher Boston and the D.C. suburbs of japanese Virginia. Because the enterprise expanded, she employed Junmyung Lee to assist her.
Prosecutors say Junmyung Lee’s duties apart from recruiting and retaining the intercourse staff have been largely mundane and included conserving the flats clear and stocked with groceries and intercourse trade-specific gadgets like lubricants and condoms and would drive them round. He additionally dealt with plenty of the cash, which he directed the ladies to cover within the freezer.
Han Lee and Junmyung Lee are two of the three individuals charged. A 3rd alleged conspirator, James Lee, has not entered into any plea agreements and appeared in courtroom Tuesday for an preliminary pretrial convention, courtroom data present. Prosecutors say that not one of the three are associated.
The penalties for the costs are as much as 20 years in jail for cash laundering conspiracy and as much as 5 years in jail for conspiracy to influence, induce, entice, and coerce a number of people to journey in interstate or international commerce to have interaction in prostitution.
This can be a creating story.
