Han Lee, Prostitution, Massachusetts 2024

BOSTON – Han Lee, the 42-year-old manager of a high-end prostitution network, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to persuade, induce, entice, and coerce individuals to travel in interstate or foreign commerce to engage in prostitution, and money laundering conspiracy.

U.S. District Court Judge Julia E. Kobick scheduled sentencing for Dec. 20, 2024. Han Lee was arrested in November 2023 and charged with co-defendants Junmyung Lee, 31, of Dedham, Mass., and James Lee, 69, of Torrance, Calif.

The defendants were subsequently indicted by a federal grand jury in February 2024. Han Lee operated an interstate prostitution network with multiple brothels in Cambridge and Watertown, Mass., as well as in Fairfax and Tysons, Va., from at least July 2020.

The defendant established the infrastructure for these brothels in multiple states for the purposes of persuading, inducing, and enticing women – primarily Asian women – to travel to Massachusetts and Virginia to engage in prostitution.

Specifically, Han Lee and her co-defendants rented high-end apartments as brothel locations, which they furnished and regularly maintained. They coordinated the women’s airline travel and transportation and permitted them to stay overnight in the brothel locations so they did not have to find lodging elsewhere, therefore enticing women to participate in their prostitution network.

The defendants allegedly advertised their prostitution network and offered appointments with women in either greater Boston or eastern Virginia via bostontopten10.com and browneyesgirlsva.blog, respectively. Both websites purported to advertise nude models for professional photography at upscale studios as a front for prostitution offered through appointments.

According to the charging documents, the defendants charged sex buyers a premium price for appointments with the women advertised on their websites, which ranged from approximately $350 to upwards of $600 per hour depending on the services and were paid in cash.

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