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A.G. Schneiderman Announces 20 Indicted In Prostitution-Based Money Laundering Bust Spanning The Tri-State Area
"16-Month Joint OCTF-NYPD Investigation Revealed Advertising Agency Somad Enterprises, Inc. Worked With Prostitution Businesses Generating Millions Of Dollars To Promote Sex Services
Schneiderman: Our Office Will Continue To Fight To Uncover And Punish Those Who Exploit Women And Profit From Exploitation
NEW YORK (MPN) – Taking action to break up a tri-state, prostitution-based money laundering operation, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly today announced the unsealing of a 180-count indictment charging 19 individuals and one corporation with enterprise corruption and a variety of underlying crimes, including money laundering, falsifying business records, narcotics sales and prostitution. During the course of the arrests and execution of search warrants earlier today, investigators found two women who were the victims of human trafficking by two of the ringleaders of the operation. Investigators from the Attorney General’s office and the NYPD rescued the two trafficking victims from locations in Manhattan and, in coordination with Sanctuary for Families, brought them to a safe haven. The investigation is ongoing.
... Somad Enterprises, Inc., which created, monitored, facilitated and employed online (on Backpage.com, for example) and print (in the Village Voice, for example) advertisements and cable television commercials to knowingly and systematically promote prostitution for its clients’ large- and small-scale prostitution businesses – or pimps for which Somad and its employees, as well as the prostitution business clients, profited handsomely. "
More info here:
http://missingpersonsnews.com/a-g-s...-laundering-bust-spanning-the-tri-state-area/
