San Francisco, California – Allen Fong, 60, of San Mateo, was sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay $5,269,698 in forfeiture money judgment for his role in operating an international prostitution racketeering enterprise.
Fong pleaded guilty on July 5, 2016 to numerous crimes, including racketeering, in connection with a broad-ranging indictment filed in federal court on October 16, 2014.
As part of his guilty plea, Fong admitted that from August 2006 through July 2014, he was involved in the day-to-day operations of an ongoing racketeering enterprise that recruited women from overseas to work in brothels in Bay Area cities, including Foster City, Cupertino, San Bruno, San Mateo, and Santa Clara.
The indictment detailed Fong’s activities, which included renting apartments for use as brothels, paying rent, telephone and utility services for operating the enterprise, arranging for telecommunications services for prostitution advertisements and appointments for sexual activity between prostitutes and their customers, and transferring proceeds in amounts of thousands of dollars from the United States to Singapore.
Fong also admitted that he met a co-conspirator at the San Francisco International Airport traveling from Singapore to the United States and drove her to an enterprise brothel where she was housed and worked as a prostitute.
The court papers described the operation of the enterprise, Fong’s role as the leader of that enterprise, and Fong’s activities such as providing logistical support for the brothels, determining how much the prostitutes could charge customers for sexual services, determining and collecting the enterprise’s share of the prostitutes’ earnings, and deciding additional policy matters.
Fong pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d); one count of conspiracy to use interstate and foreign commerce to promote prostitution in aid of a racketeering enterprise, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 1952(a)(3); eleven counts of use of interstate commerce to promote prostitution in aid of a racketeering enterprise, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1952(a)(3) and 2; one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956(h) and 1956(a)(1)(A)(i); nine counts of substantive money laundering, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956(a)(1)(A)(i) and 2; one count of conspiracy to transport funds from the United States to a foreign country to promote unlawful activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956(h) & 1956(a)(2)(A); seven counts of transporting funds from the United States to a foreign country to promote unlawful activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956(a)(2)(A) and 2; and one count of conspiracy to transport an individual in interstate and foreign commerce for prostitution and importation of alien for immoral purpose, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 & 2421, and 8 U.S.C. § 1328.
Fong’s prison term includes sentencing enhancements for his involvement in the racketeering enterprise.
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Key Facts
- State: California
- Category: Sex Crimes, Organized Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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