A court hearing Friday for 28 “wealthy and connected” men who run high-end brothels in two Massachusetts neighborhoods, who resumed high-end brothels in Cambridge court on Friday.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in November that the hearing was public. The hearing was held in Cambridge District Court.
11 new alleged brothel customers from Massachusetts and New Hampshire were identified on Friday, and Cambridge Police Lieutenant Jarred Cabral detailed the allegations against them: He read from police reports:
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Steven Riel of Laconia, New Hampshire
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Nathaniel Welch of Concord, Massachusetts
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Jeff Henry of Exeter, New Hampshire
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Fred Rosenthal of Malbhead, Massachusetts
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Timothy Ackerson of Waltham, Massachusetts
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Matthew Fulton, Belmont, Massachusetts
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Howard Redmond of Tewkesbury, Massachusetts
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Anurag Bajpayee in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Paul Toner of Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Paul Grant of Charlestown, Massachusetts
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James Cusack Jr. of Boston, Massachusetts
Although none of these people appeared in court, Sharon Casey, a clerk at the Cambridge District Court, told their attorney that she would file charges against everyone.
Other names are expected to be announced throughout the afternoon as referred to as individual cases.
The names of more than a dozen alleged sex buyers from communities such as Winchester, Lincoln, Concord, Newton and Waltham were made public last week.
The Boston-area “John Do's Attorney” identified in a dark book on the advanced interstate high-end brothel network, desperately trying to keep their identities private, believing that revealing their names violated their privacy.
In 2023, then-Boston U.S. Attorney Josh Levy said the brothel’s clients include politicians, large pharmaceutical executives, government contractors, with security permits, professors, lawyers, accountants and scientists.
A hearing on possible causes in the highly anticipated brothel case is also scheduled to be held on March 28. There will be no persistence, no special circumstances.
A pair of Boston-based media outlets have filed to view criminal lawsuits against clients suspected of prostitution rings, but the SJC also supports the clerk’s decision to lock down the complaint until the first court hearing was held in Cambridge District Court.
In November 2023, authorities arrested Han Lee, Junmyung Lee and James Lee for opening commercial sexual networks in Watertown, Cambridge and Virginia, where buyers pay for sexual acts of various advertising advertisements at up to $600 per hour.
The 42-year-old leader, the interstate commercial sex ring Han Lee, was sentenced to four years in prison earlier this week before being sentenced to one year of supervised release.
“Han Lee not only recruits women to sell their bodies for sex — she set up a crime business that aims to thrive in the shadows, evade law enforcement, while at the same time profiting from goods,” said U.S. Attorney Leah Foley.
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