There are still massage parlors and a booming online trade.
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Massage parlors and the advanced search option listed on Rubmaps.com.
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They include luxury jewelry brands, beauty salons and massage parlors.
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The yakuza often run sexual massage parlors staffed by underage girls.
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There are CBD massage parlors, CBD bakeries and even CBD cafes.
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They were sleeping in the massage parlors on the massage tables.
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Police appear to have secretly taped the happenings inside the massage parlors.
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Many metropolitan police departments routinely conduct raids on spas and massage parlors.
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Only two of us were there to speak out against the massage parlors.
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The move resulted in the closing of more than 100 massage parlors, it said.
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It also shut down 18 other related businesses, including bars, massage parlors, and movie theaters.
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Laws governing massage parlors are riddled with loopholes that allow for criminal operations, Polaris said.
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They searched online forums where users posted about sex acts performed at the massage parlors.
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Police and prosecutors wrote up their criminal charges and raided the massage parlors on Tuesday.
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Yesterday I pointed out all the massage parlors on Artesia Boulevard to my mother in law.
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These women were sleeping in massage parlors, on the massage tables, and had no access to transportation.
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On the drive to my son's school, we pass 18 massage parlors — in less than two miles.
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Hundreds of people were charged in the sting involving several massage parlors and day spas in Florida.
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Hundreds of people were charged in the operation involving several massage parlors and day spas in Florida.
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Police raided "red-light districts, brothels, massage parlors, private apartments, airports and immigration reception centers," Europol said.
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He described "other indiscretions," including visiting "Asian themed" massage parlors in New York, Washington, Miami, and Virginia.
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Nearby were plenty of venues with suggestive names like the Playboy Sensation, massage parlors for straight men.
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Now that there was a surplus to sample—massage parlors and swingers' parties—he wanted to feast.
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The case nevertheless raised the question of what sex work at Asian massage parlors really looks like nationally.
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It focuses on massage parlors and explains what to look for and why it's so hard to stop.
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While researching, we found this statistic that there are 1,200 happy ending massage parlors in New York City.
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Men who have more money tend to go to massage parlors and brothels, or they use escort services.
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Polaris estimates more than 9,000 illicit massage parlors operate in the United States, earning nearly $2.5 billion a year.
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Among these data, the top venues for sex trafficking included illicit massage parlors, hotels and motels, and residential brothels.
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The initial charges against Kraft came as part of a sweeping, dramatic raid on Asian massage parlors across Florida.
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They work in some 9,000 massage parlors found along highways and behind storefronts in strip malls across the country.
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Tex, who ran a string of massage parlors in the 1970s and '80s that became fronts for prostitution dens.
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But bad situations can also arise in hotels, massage parlors, and other shared indoor spaces during raids and stings.
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Reports claim that during this period, Djelidi was caught frequenting massage parlors and engaging in sexual activity with sex workers.
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In Switzerland, sex workers are required to have permits; establishments with two or more prostitutes must register as massage parlors.
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Law enforcement officials said there were an estimated 236,000 illicit massage parlors across the country, from Orlando to Los Angeles.
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Martin County detectives since July were investigating possible human trafficking and prostitution at several massage parlors in their own jurisdiction.
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Law enforcement officials said there were an estimated 9,000 illicit massage parlors across the country, from Orlando to Los Angeles.
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Polaris, for its part, estimates that there are 9,203 "illicit" (sexual) massage parlors in the U.S., while RubMaps lists over 24,400.
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Jenny said massage parlors have better working conditions than other forms of work Chinese immigrants with limited language skills can get.
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Yet traffickers routinely use what appear to be legitimate businesses—massage parlors, bars, nail salons—as fronts for their illegal exploitation.
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In the deposition, Miller said he'd visited "Asian themed" massage parlors in several cities and hired prostitutes while he was married.
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Found in massage parlors, escort services, residential brothels and street prostitution, some might be victims for weeks and others for years.
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Kraft is among 100 people linked to a ring of Florida spas and massage parlors suspected of doubling as prostitution dens.
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The Jeep drives deeper into the Vegas peculiarity, past the 7-Elevens and massage parlors, the smoke shops and strip clubs.
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Mass arrest is not the answer to ending the exploitation of the mostly Asian immigrants working in spas and massage parlors.
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A series of massage parlors was raided Tuesday as part of a six-month state investigation of prostitution and human trafficking.
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"From my experience, most of them came over expecting to work in the service industry—nail salons, massage parlors, restaurants," she said.
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The charges came in a police sting that law enforcement said was aimed at stopping human trafficking through massage parlors in Florida.
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But police are still raiding massage parlors and arresting sex workers on their own, three attorneys who work with those clients said.
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Police announced Thursday that human traffickers lured women to 10 Orlando-area massage parlors, where they were intimidated into prostitution, TCPalm reports.
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Two cases were dismissed because undercover police officers had had sexual contact with women they were investigating for prostitution at massage parlors.
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Officials say the women accused of running the sex trafficking ring operated out of local spas which touted themselves as massage parlors.
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The Florida Department of Health disciplined 62 massage parlors or therapists last fiscal year, up from 14 the year before, records show.
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But repeated crackdowns have not rid Bangkok and other tourist hubs of go-go bars and massage parlors that often offer sex.
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We've got the usual massage parlors, but you can't have come all this distance just for a happy ending now, can you?
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Kraft was charged following a sex trafficking investigation of central Florida day spas and massage parlors suspected of being used for prostitution.
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Judges handling similar cases involving several other massage parlors in Florida have likewise barred prosecutors from using surveillance videos from inside the spas.
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His arrest comes after a sting operation involving human trafficking and prostitution at local massage parlors, according to the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office.
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The suspension -- which also orders health clubs, spas, massage parlors and theaters to close by Tuesday -- is set to last until April 1.
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Some of my friends drive their children to school down a street where there are 353 massage parlors in the span of two miles.
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The person who doesn't need sex as much better be OK with the other person getting off to porn or going to massage parlors.
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More than 100 people have been charged in Florida as part of a months-long sex-trafficking investigation of massage parlors in the state.
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The Trump-branded businesses planned in China include spas, massage parlors, escort services, hotels, finance and real-estate companies, retail shops, restaurants and bars.
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Hundreds of people were charged in the multi-jurisdictional sting that began in October and involved other massage parlors and day spas in Florida.
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Every single day I look at these massage parlors, and wonder what might be going on behind those covered up windows surrounded by security cameras.
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"Massage houses and agencies still use these websites to advertise," says Arabelle Raphael, noting that the now-defunct RedBook was extremely popular with massage parlors.
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She also said she wants to "lead the charge to shut down motel and massage parlors operating as dens of human trafficking" in the state.
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In 2019, its owners were arrested on prostitution charges, which was part of a larger investigation on the role of human trafficking in massage parlors.
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There are many brothels or massage parlors across the country that traffic and employ Asian immigrants at low rates and force them into sex work.
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What was once a movie theater has been carved into several retail establishments, including Happy Foot Spa, one of several massage parlors and nail salons.
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That evidence led to warrants for surveillance cameras, which police secretly installed inside the massage parlors — apparently under the ruse of a possible bomb threat.
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She'd worked in other massage parlors in New York before going to Flushing, as well as done some dominatrix work and high-end escorting, she said.
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The law has also reportedly limited police focus on massage parlors, putting more emphasis on the public sale of sexual services and the arrest of clients.
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" Variety wrote that "based on a true story, the film will focus on a woman... flourishing in the male-dominated business of massage parlors and prostitution.
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They list business areas including branded spas, massage parlors, golf clubs, hotels, insurance, finance and real estate companies, retail shops, restaurants, bars, bodyguards and escort services.
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There are cat cafes and cat wine cars, and now there are cat massage parlors, where your meowing masseuse will demand her tip in sardines … probably.
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The charges against Kraft came as part of a wide-reaching, multi-agency investigation into human trafficking at several spas and massage parlors Florida's Treasure Coast region.
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When I visited Queens this summer, my translator and I walked down Flushing's Main Street going from door to door buzzing massage parlors; nobody let us in.
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A former aide to President Donald Trump said in court documents unsealed last week that he hired prostitutes and visited "Asian themed" massage parlors for sexual services.
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Huang Tuwang oversaw a range of illegal businesses including massage parlors, unlicensed lending outfits and casinos, forming "unlawful control" over certain regions and industries, said the report.
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Investigators say the two women accused of running the prostitution ring were importing women from foreign countries and forcing them into sex slavery at the massage parlors.
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The new regulations, the tightest in modern Germany's history, will last at least two weeks, and mean restaurants, hairdressers, massage parlors and other nonessential stores should close.
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But there's cash being made selling flesh, and where there's money, power will follow: first the illicit Mafia-run massage parlors, then the lucrative legal porn industry.
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Of all prostitution-related arrests in New York, 94% were black women, while 9 out of 10 women detained in massage parlors offering sexual services were immigrants.
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The charges resulted from a monthslong investigation into sex trafficking that focused on several central Florida day spas and massage parlors suspected of being used for prostitution.
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He was among more than 100 people linked to several central Florida day spas and massage parlors suspected of being fronts for prostitution after a monthslong investigation.
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News that the owner of a chain of dubious massage parlors was brokering foreign access to the president of the United States should be a big deal.
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Typically, trafficking victims in massage parlors are recent Chinese or South Korean immigrant mothers who speak little or no English and are burdened by debt, the group said.
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So were raunchy pulp novels, fliers for Times Square massage parlors, business cards offering phone sex for $2 a minute, even playing cards with illustrations of naked women.
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On this same street, the grocery store went out of business, the dentist closed up shop, but all the massage parlors that nobody seems to notice are thriving.
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Access to safer, better-paying indoor workplaces — brothels, strip clubs, and massage parlors — is often premised on abstinence from drugs, to reflect the "classy" image such venues promote.
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One reason the Asian massage parlors remain so poorly understood is the extreme reluctance of the women to speak with the police and even with their own lawyers.
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Investigators, who have been conducting surveillance of massage parlors in the area for six months, charged "nearly 211" people, though only a fraction have been arrested so far.
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Police announced Friday that Kraft had been charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution in connection with a human trafficking sting tied to a chain of Florida massage parlors.
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The main task of these volunteers is to distribute condoms to sex workers operating at massage parlors and hair salons — all fronts for brothels — in an outskirt of Tianjin.
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From the raft of media reports detailing exploitation in massage parlors, I expected Jenny's day-to-day life in the spa to involve constantly servicing men, hour after hour.
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That's left sex workers at massage parlors—even in one of America's most progressive cities—to deal with cops they and their advocates often describe as inept, or worse.
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During his life, Gill ran a string of massage parlors, which authorities believed were "little more than brothels," and was eventually taken down by the IRS for tax evasion.
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Do we just accept the idea that physical retailing is dead and that we are destined to have local communities filling empty spaces with restaurants, WeWorks and massage parlors.
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Two K-pop performers were jailed for 10 days two years ago after they were arrested during their military service for visiting massage parlors that also sold sexual services.
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The charges against Mr. Kraft came after the police in January used video surveillance to observe activity inside several day spas and massage parlors, including one in Jupiter, Fla.
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Since the beginning of their relationship in the public eye, rumors have swirled that Wayne had been seen frequenting massage parlors and sex workers when he was just 16.
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Kraft, 77, a businessman who built the Patriots into the NFL's most dominant franchise, was charged following a police sting targeting sex-trafficking in day spas and massage parlors.
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Police announced on Friday that Kraft had been charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution in connection with a human trafficking sting tied to a chain of Florida massage parlors.
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Authorities in February announced misdemeanor charges against the 77-year-old Kraft and 24 other men for soliciting prostitution, part of a broader investigation of sex trafficking at massage parlors.
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Patriots owner Robert Kraft was charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution in connection with a human trafficking sting tied to a chain of Florida massage parlors, police announced Friday.
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On Friday, Florida police said Kraft is being charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution in connection with a human trafficking sting tied to a chain of local massage parlors.
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Police in Florida said Friday Kraft had been charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution in connection with a human trafficking sting tied to a chain of local massage parlors.
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"I love heritage buildings," Ms. Chua, 40, said on a recent evening outside the family store, which is in a florescent-lit corridor alongside massage parlors and money-changing kiosks.
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Back in downtown Pangsan, bright, neon signs dangling from low-rise hotels, massage parlors and bars light up the main street a few minutes walk from a border crossing with China.
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There's little floricultural about the Flower Shop, a 3,000-square-foot restaurant and bar that will sprout on a Lower East Side block populated by Chinese groceries and foot-massage parlors.
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For one thing, the police were targeting johns, in keeping with a stated policy to focus less on the employees of illicit massage parlors and more on their owners and customers.
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But all sides agree that prostitution practiced openly would reverberate well beyond the city's thriving but shadowy sex industry of street prostitution, massage parlors, strip clubs and high-end call girls.
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But it doesn't truly matter whether they are cleaning houses or working at massage parlors; their safety is compromised and they are left more vulnerable to a potential cycle of exploitation.
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"Our repair people compare us to massage parlors, because they put a lot of oils into machines, and the amount of laundry they would do with all their towels," she says.
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"I would never consider them prostitutes — it was really a rescue operation," the sheriff said, training his anger at the men whose demand for sex kept the massage parlors in business.
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Jason Miller, a Republican operative and former aide to President Donald Trump, said he had extramarital affairs, hired prostitutes, and visited massage parlors for hand jobs, court documents obtained by Mediaite say.
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I'd read on RubMaps, the so-called Yelp of massage parlors—a subscription website where people provide detailed reviews of their sexual experiences at "rub and tugs"—that happy-ending massages occur here.
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Until recently, it could take months for someone who was not FLDS to get a business license approved; today, there are still regulations prohibiting "obscene" business: massage parlors, hair salons, and nail salons.
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Yang recently gained notoriety as the owner of multiple South Florida massage parlors who has allegedly been using her relationship with Trump to sell access to the President and other high-ranking officials.
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The 2 women suspected of running the operation are accused of essentially importing women from other countries -- mostly China -- and forcing them to work as sex slaves at various massage parlors in Florida.
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Sandipkumar Patel was arrested by the Martin County Sheriff's Office, and his mug shot was shared with the media after officials claimed that he patronized one of the massage parlors that were raided.
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Over the years, the country has come to be known for sex tourism, with large numbers of male visitors frequenting bars, massage parlors and karaoke lounges that have multiplied as tourist numbers soared.
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Their cases are part of a six-month investigation into what the police say is a human sex trafficking network operating out of nearly a dozen massage parlors in several counties in Florida.
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The rise of the porn business and massage parlors has "cleaned up" Times Square, purging the corners of streetwalkers and bringing them under the control of a corrupt network of gangsters and cops.
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The biopic would focus on the life of Dante "Tex" Gill, a trans man who ran a string of massage parlors in Pittsburgh in the 1970s, with Gill played by Johansson, of course!
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He was among more than 100 people who were linked to several central Florida day spas and massage parlors suspected of being used for prostitution and targeted by law enforcement during a monthslong investigation.
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Gill's story is fascinating — his massage parlors were a front for brothels, and, like Al Capone, he was eventually stung for tax evasion rather than his gangland activities — and deserves to be told properly.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Loopholes in U.S. laws allow thousands of illicit massage parlors to operate without revealing their ownership, letting sex traffickers hide their crimes, a leading anti-slavery group said on Thursday.
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"It's not a bunch of lonely guys seeking company," she said of the Johns at massage parlors, where, as Gothamist previously reported, the NYPD dramatically ramped up arrests of sex workers between 2012 and 2016.
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Robert Kraft's name was back in the headlines on Friday, as police charged him with two counts of soliciting prostitution in connection with a human trafficking sting tied to a chain of Florida massage parlors.
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Around 8 PM, some went off to pre-arranged meet-ups with clients; others hedged their bets and sought customers by hanging around one of the city's hundreds of bars, karaoke joints, and massage parlors.
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Johansson is set to star in "Rub & Tug" as Dante "Tex" Gill, a trans man known for running a string of massage parlors in Pittsburgh that were fronts for prostitution in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Data is not yet available for 2017, but authorities said 40 Thai women were rescued from massage parlors acting as fronts for prostitution in Mumbai and Pune in the first half of last year alone.
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The newly announced film, "Rub & Tug," is based on the real-life story of Dante "Tex" Gill, who ran a string of massage parlors that were fronts for prostitution dens in the 1970s and '80s.
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Her exit is staged in a funny cold open outside one of the massage parlors, where C.C. expects her to clock in while Lori takes the day off to rest for the next film shoot.
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In a written statement, a spokesperson for Blair said, "In its September 2019 decision, the Parole Board explicitly opposed letting the accused visit massage parlors during his release," and expressed deep condolences to Levesque's family.
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He was among the more than 100 people who were linked to several central Florida day spas and massage parlors suspected of being used for prostitution and targeted by law enforcement during a monthslong investigation.
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"It is clear to me that massage parlors in our communities and across the country have become safe havens for human trafficking," Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn, who helped create the legislation, told BuzzFeed News.
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From the federal building, you head eastward along the south side of The Garden, crossing through a row of ill-kept storefronts and massage parlors that reflect the monstrosity of a stadium that provides them shade.
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Johansson had been set to play transgender man Dante "Tex" Gill, who owned a string of massage parlors in Pittsburgh that were fronts for prostitution in the 1970s and 1980s, in a film about his life.
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Next I passed through Twentynine Palms, a town of barbershops advertising military haircuts, more tattoo parlors and smoke shops, two bars too divey even for me, a worrisome number of "massage parlors," and several Thai restaurants.
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The women, referred to as "flowers" by the criminal organizations, were forced to work at massage parlors with no choice about where, when and with whom they performed sex acts until their debts were paid off.
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He was among the more than 100 people who were linked to several central Florida day spas and massage parlors suspected of being used for prostitution and targeted by law enforcement during a months-long investigation.
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The 77-year-old billionaire is among more than 100 people linked to several central Florida day spas and massage parlors suspected of being used for prostitution and targeted by law enforcement during a monthslong investigation.
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Kraft, who built the Super Bowl-winning Patriots into the National Football League's most dominant franchise, was swept up in a police sting targeting sex-trafficking in day spas and massage parlors in several Florida counties.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - U.S. traffickers make $2.5 billion a year forcing women to have sex in massage parlors, according to a report on Wednesday describing victims as new immigrants with debts and no language skills.
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Kraft, 77, a billionaire businessman who built the Patriots into the National Football League's most dominant franchise, was swept up in a police sting targeting sex-trafficking in day spas and massage parlors in several Florida counties.
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"By no stretch of the imagination did law enforcement need to resort to secret, indiscriminate, continuous videotaping of private massage parlors in order to build a solicitation case around low-level consensual sex acts," the motion says.
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Johansson had been set to play Dante "Tex" Gill, a real-life figure who commanded an empire of massage parlors in Pittsburgh in the 1970s and 1980s, in a film directed by Ghost in the Shell's Rupert Sanders.
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Asian massage parlors reentered the national consciousness earlier this year, when New England Patriots owner and Donald Trump pal Robert Kraft was, according to police, caught receiving hand jobs at Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida.
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But the idea that contemporary Asian massage parlors are bastions of sex trafficking has come not only from officials and law enforcement, but also some of the hundreds of non-profit organizations devoted to combatting that very thing.
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Now that this news has come to light, let's hope that Massage Envy (and massage parlors everywhere) puts the most obvious rule possible in place and require that employees notify police immediately if a client reports sexual violence.
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We saw this in the Robert Kraft case — the sting operation that got the New England Patriots owner caught for soliciting prostitution, which targeted massage parlors like Orchids of Asia (where Kraft went) under suspicion of sex trafficking.
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According to affidavits released in the case, the police persuaded a judge to allow them to install hidden video cameras because they were investigating whether a sex trafficking ring was operating in about 10 massage parlors in Florida.
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And she built the chain of massage parlors and day spas in Florida, including the Orchids of Asia Day Spa & Massage, where Mr. Kraft and several other wealthy men were accused of soliciting sex after it changed ownership.
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The 77-year-old billionaire was among more than 100 people linked last month to several central Florida day spas and massage parlors suspected of being used for prostitution and targeted by law enforcement during a monthslong investigation.
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The 77-year-old Kraft was among more than 100 people linked last month to several central Florida day spas and massage parlors suspected of being used for prostitution and targeted by law enforcement during a monthslong investigation.
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A favorite of businessmen and young Vietnamese partygoers alike, the area is the city's answer to Golden Gai, Tokyo's famous district of hole-in-the-wall bars, and it's similarly jam-packed with izakayas, noodle shops and massage parlors.
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Robert Kraft, owner of the NFL Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, has been charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution in connection with a human trafficking sting tied to a chain of Florida massage parlors, police announced Friday.
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John, a jack-of-all-trades who provides everything from chauffeur services to tax help to several Asian massage parlors in southern California, estimated that about a quarter of massage workers in the Los Angeles area sleep in the parlors.
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BORACAY, Philippines (Reuters) - Along the shores of Philippines' top holiday island, Boracay, businesses like massage parlors, souvenir stalls, tattoo shops and boat rentals are still thriving while tourists bask in the sun on the powdery white sand, but not for long.
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Even though prostitution was still illegal, the economy depended on it, and that year, the Thai government allowed for the legal establishment of massage parlors, karaoke bars, and billiard halls that clandestinely doubled as places for men to meet prostitutes.
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This triggered an increase in off-street sex work such as massage parlors and escort services, says Dr. Julia Laite, a lecturer in British history at Birkbeck, University of London, and an expert in the history of UK prostitution law.
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Authenticity to the experience of being in urban Japan has always been a crucial part of these games, right down to the side streets with massage parlors and soaplands standing just a stone's throw away from the big shopping centers.
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"Rub & Tug is based on the story of Dante 'Tex' Gill, a transgender man who was a proprietor of several massage parlors in 1970s Pittsburgh that were actually fronts for prostitution," Out magazine wrote in July 2018, after Johansson was cast.
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TSA is a function of Homeland Security and therefore an arm of the federal government — the airport's restaurants, bars, newsstands, and massage parlors have all shuttered in the face of the coronavirus, but nobody working security has been laid off.
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"I don't believe they were told they were going to work in massage parlors seven days a week, having unprotected sex with up to 245,000 men a year," said Sheriff William D. Snyder of Martin County, whose office opened the investigation.
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"The notion that most or almost all of the women are trafficked, when they do work in massage parlors… is completely bogus," said Dr. Ronald Weitzer, a professor of sociology at George Washington University and an expert in sex work and sex trafficking.
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Thousands of massage parlors across the US are acting as hubs for human trafficking and prostitution, raking in $2.5 billion a year in the process, according to a new report detailing a booming industry that preys on immigrants trying to support their children.
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Kraft recently became embroiled in controversy when he was charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution in connection with a human trafficking sting tied to a chain of Florida massage parlors, just weeks after New England won their sixth championship under his stewardship.
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Some of the straight married men with whom Kerner has worked have permission from their wives "to go to strip clubs, to go to massage parlors that include sexual gratification," or other various "non-monogomy agreements," but these rarely include paid sex.
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After Ms. Zhang was stopped, she produced a copy of a Chinese-language invitation for the friendship event that was promoted by Cindy Yang, who had previously owned a string of massage parlors where the police shut down a prostitution ring in February.
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In Flushing's illicit massage parlors, Asian immigrants in debt-bondage are forced into prostitution by sex traffickers; along Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, transgender, undocumented immigrants from Latin America come to the trade after being turned away from work in restaurants and hotels.
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The 77-year-old billionaire businessman, whose Super Bowl-winning Patriots have become the National Football League's most dominant franchise, was swept up in a police sting last week that targeted sex-trafficking in day spas and massage parlors in several Florida counties.
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" Other non-profit anti-trafficking groups share similar messages about massage parlors, including the Night Angels, which aim "to help [human trafficking victims] take steps to get out of the violent and chaotic world that they live and move on to restoration through Jesus Christ.
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It seems whenever immigrant sex workers band together, police insist on busting up their businesses in order to "save" them, and the recent stings at Florida massage parlors — in which New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft got charged with solicitation — provide the perfect example.
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The backdrop: The Mother Jones piece dives into the strange saga of Li Yang, a Trump donor from China who founded a chain of massage parlors in Florida — including the one at which New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has been accused of soliciting prostitution.
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Driving news: The FBI subpoenaed records this week related to a donation to Trump's 2020 campaign from an employee of Yang's massage parlors who wrote a $5,400 check, the maximum allowed under federal law, with Yang's help, as reported by the New York Times.
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By getting a better sense of where trafficking is prevalent and who's doing the trafficking, anti-trafficking groups can develop strategies to shut down larger networks — the hubs of human trafficking — as opposed to smaller businesses like massage parlors where some trafficking victims end up.
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Our last stop is a small square space, where printed signs bearing the images of Michael Jordan and Justin Bieber with phone numbers beneath them, lay against the walls, inspired by the unauthorized signage you see around nail salons, barbershops, and massage parlors in Chinatown.
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The owner of one of the National Football League's most successful franchises and winner of this year's Super Bowl was one of hundreds of people charged in February after an investigation unveiled widespread trafficking of young women at Florida day spas and massage parlors.
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In 2015, Ms. Malbon co-founded The Now, a chain of sleek, competitively priced, perpetually booked massage parlors in Los Angeles; in 1999, Mr. Malbon founded Frank151, a media company and creative agency that has lent street cred to brands like Casio, Toyota and Nike.
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"Even though I've represented many, many women arrested in unlicensed massage parlors, because of the level of distrust of people working, almost all immigrants, almost all undocumented, they don't trust even their attorneys enough to let them know what's happened to them," Ms. Latimer said.
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The NYPD did not answer specific questions about its anti-trafficking effort, but Cohen's colleague Yvonne Chen said she has so far accompanied vice officers to about 20 massage parlors, where police cleared the Johns—without arresting them—so she could speak candidly to the workers.
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Instead, cops say their main focus was on the women who were allegedly masterminding a state-wide prostitution ring in which they're accused of importing women from other countries and putting them to work as sex slaves who essentially lived in terrible conditions in various massage parlors.
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City services were tapped dry; sewage workers went on strike; and the part of town that's now home to M&M's World and The Lion King was overrun with smutty movie theaters, massage parlors, and X-rated bookshops, many of which were often raided by the police.
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More than 100 people linked to suspicious spas The 77-year-old Kraft was among more than 100 people linked last month to several central Florida day spas and massage parlors suspected of being used for prostitution and targeted by law enforcement during a monthslong investigation.
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WUHU, China (Reuters) - Down a side street bracketed by massage parlors and cheap hotels in this city on the banks of the Yangtze river, a humanoid food service robot trundles around the corner of a table in a cafe, red eyes flashing in tune with synthesized classical music.
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And as the massage parlors have expanded even into small-town America in recent years, meticulously detailed review sites like Rubmaps have served as the Yelp and Foursquare of the illicit parlor business, with graphic anatomical descriptions of the women and explicit breakdowns of the sexual services proffered.
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State Attorney Dave Aronberg of Palm Beach County, whose office leads a human trafficking task force with the F.B.I., said trafficking foreigners to work in places like massage parlors can be more difficult to root out than trafficking, for example, American girls who are recruited in person or online.
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Nataree is one of dozens of "soapy massage" parlors across Bangkok - where clients select a woman sitting behind a "fishbowl" glass wall by a number pinned to her chest, then bathes with her and has sex at a cost of around 3,000 baht ($85) for an hour and a half.
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Top Democrats in both the Senate and House have asked the FBI to launch criminal and counterintelligence investigations into "credible allegations of potential human trafficking, as well as unlawful foreign lobbying, campaign finance and other activities" by Li "Cindy" Yang, the founder of a chain of Florida massage parlors, NBC News reports.
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But landlords are rarely charged with a crime, he said, because the police often don't have enough evidence to show they are complicit, which results in a never-ending game of Whack-A-Mole: The police shut down brothels and massage parlors, only to see another open in the same place or nearby.
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Many of those working in America's spas and massage parlors are Asian immigrants, and when we dive into the minutia and complexities of their lives, we find systemic racism compounded by stigmatization and victim-blaming used against these community members to make them seem less worthy of dignity and respect than other immigrants.
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It started after she played the lead in the live action remake of the Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell and followed it up with the announcement that she'd star in Rub & Tug, a biopic on the life of a trans man who ran a string of massage parlors in Pittsburgh in the 1970s.
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The site has included a wealth of information — such as details about when people left for work, whether they wore masks in the subway, the name of the stations where they changed trains, the massage parlors and karaoke bars they frequented and the names of the clinics where they were tested for the virus.
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Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee and House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler -- are calling on the FBI to conduct criminal and counterintelligence probes into allegations of human trafficking, foreign lobbying and potential campaign finance violations against Cindy Yang, the founder and former owner of a chain of Florida massage parlors.
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Other sex workers in the local area had told police they were concerned that the women working out of some of the massage parlors in Soho/West End might be trafficked, as their behavior and work patterns appeared inconsistent with their experience of voluntary sex workers who had not been coerced into the industry.
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Robert Kraft, owner of the six-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, was charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution in connection with a human trafficking sting tied to a chain of Florida massage parlors — and recent reports suggest that the billionaire sports owner may not be the most recognizable person involved in the investigation.
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"The passing of FOSTA-SESTA has been a bit of a turning point for online-based sex workers, who were previously less impacted by policing, which targeted the most marginalized communities of color on the street or in street-visible massage parlors," Kate Zen, an organizer with Red Canary, a grassroots organization that supports migrant sex workers, told Refinery29.
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Congressional Democrats are asking federal officials to investigate allegations that a Florida businesswoman who owned massage parlors may have tried to sell access to President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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Access to Mr. Trump by Chinese nationals became an issue last month, when news media reports surfaced showing that a Chinese-American woman in Florida who once owned a chain of Asian massage parlors that had been investigated for prostitution had attended a number of events there, and had been photographed there with the president and other officials.
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Relax World: Beautiful Sound: Anti-Aging Healing (Sugar Candy Records) This bizarre album, one of many in a never-ending assembly line of stock meditative instrumental compilations by a mysterious organization called Relax World, is almost certainly not intended for enjoyment by ordinary music consumers; I'd guess massage parlors and dentists' offices constitute Relax World's main market share.
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Chinese influence/RNC finance probeIn the wake of the salacious headlines around a network of Florida massage parlors and Patriots owner Bob Kraft came revelations that the central figure in that case, Cindy Yang—who took a Super Bowl selfie with Trump himself—evidently helped usher Chinese tech leaders into Trump's presence for $50,000 a pop, money that went to the RNC.
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