Eric Omuro, Prostitution Facilitation and Money Laundering, California 2023

A 53-year-old Mountain View, California man has been arrested for allegedly running a website that facilitated prostitution and money laundering.

Eric Omuro, also known as 'Red,' was taken into custody on today following his indictment by a federal grand jury on charges involving the use of the mail and the Internet to facilitate prostitution, and multiple counts of money laundering.

Omuro's alleged accomplice, Annemarie Lanoce, 40, of Rocklin, California, was also indicted and arrested on the same charges.

The websites, sfredbook.com and myRedBook.com, were allegedly operated by Omuro with Lanoce's assistance to facilitate prostitution in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the West Coast region of the United States.

According to the indictment, Omuro engaged in more than twenty monetary transactions to launder the profits derived from the facilitation of prostitution.

The indictment seeks the forfeiture of more than $5 million in property and money derived from the facilitation of prostitution, as well as the Internet domain names myredbook.com and sfredbook.com.

The charges in the indictment are merely accusations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

This case was investigated by the FBI's San Francisco Field Office, the IRS, and the Oakland Police Department.

The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Keith Becker of the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Elise Becker and Patricia Kenney of the Northern District of California.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/california-operators-myredbookcom-website-arrested-facilitating-prostitution-and-money