Two of the three individuals charged with operating high-end brothels in Larger Boston and in northern Virginia have scheduled hearings to plead responsible.
However we nonetheless don’t know the names of any of their alleged clients.
Defendants James Lee, 68, of Torrance, California; Junmyung Lee, 30, of Dedham; and the alleged brothel ringleader, Han Lee, 41, of Cambridge — none of whom are associated — face most sentences together with many years in jail and tons of of hundreds of {dollars} in fines if convicted.
Whereas all three defendants have been mentioned to have been “actively engaged in plea discussions” again in June, in accordance with courtroom information, they weren’t at the moment able to request dates for “Rule 11” hearings the place a choose will hear a change of plea and discern whether or not it was made intelligently and with out coercion.
Since then, each Junmyung Lee and Han Lee have requested simply such hearings.
Han Lee is scheduled for a change of plea listening to in federal courtroom in Boston on Sept. 27 at midday. Junmyung Lee is scheduled for a similar listening to on Oct. 30 at 4 p.m., which was modified on Thursday from Oct. 1.
James Lee has not requested such a listening to and U.S. District Decide Julia E. Kobick has scheduled an preliminary pretrial convention for Oct. 29 at 3 p.m.
The general public has identified the names of those defendants since early November of final yr, when the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace introduced the arrests of all three for allegedly operating various girls to tons of of rich docs, legal professionals, politicians, and navy officers who paid as much as $600 an hour for sexual companies.
“The three individuals behind these websites facilitated the movement of predominately Asian women across the United States for sex trafficking in a commercial sex ring, exploiting them in the process,” performing U.S. Legal professional Joshua Levy mentioned then. “This commercial sex ring was built on secrecy and exclusivity, catering to a wealthy, well-connected clientele, and business was booming.”
After 10 months, the names of those highly effective clients are nonetheless not identified and so they have — anonymously and thru counsel — appealed all the best way to the Supreme Judicial Courtroom, which is Massachusetts’ highest courtroom, to maintain their names away from the general public.
“Pick a profession, they’re probably represented in this case,” Levy mentioned.
Any prices in opposition to these highly effective Johns has been left to the state courts, which has been to date unwilling to reveal their identities, leaving some observers fuming as a result of, as Levy mentioned, “They are the men who fueled this commercial sex ring.”
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