A network of “sophisticated high-end brothels” servicing “elected officials, high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances,” and other high-status individuals kept “impeccable” business and financial records, according to investigators.
Department of Homeland Security Special Agent Zachary Mitlitsky has told the courts Han Lee, one of the alleged pimps charged with running the brothels, “maintained ledgers detailing the daily activity of her brothels.”
“At the time of the search warrant execution, one such ledger was open to a page showing the stage names, appointment dates and times and earnings of the women,” Mitlitsky said.
“Next to the ledger were envelopes containing bulk cash and handwritten notes with the stage names of women and a tally of their earnings,” he added.
The enterprise was international in scope, with over a million dollars in earnings identified, evidence of substantial money transfers to South Korea, and prostitutes trafficked to the United States from Asia.
Thus far, only Han Lee and alleged co-conspirators Junmyung Lee and James Lee have been charged by the Justice Department. The politicians, government officials, and other powerful clients of the alleged pimps, who operated in greater Boston and eastern Virginia, remain unidentified.
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