Jineok Kim, 38, of Watertown, Mass. Kim, 36, of Haymarket, Va. According to the court documents filed Friday, Kim participated in an interstate prostitution network from spring to December , and Bashir worked for the prostitution network from at least until March The prostitution network had multiple brothels in high-end apartments in Cambridge; Atlanta, Ga.
They advertised appointments with Asian women primarily on three websites: www. The women advertised on the websites were moved from city to city within the network, working as prostitutes for the organization.
Bashir's role involved screening potential clients that called to book an appointment and then arranging logistics for the client to meet with one the advertised women. Bashir also updated the prostitution websites and calculated the payments for each prostitute based on the number of clients she had met with. In addition, Bashir collected the cash earnings from the women working at the Georgia brothels and made bulk deposits at ATMs, funneling the money into accounts allegedly controlled by Taehee Kim and Yoon Kim.
Jineok Kim transported women working as prostitutes and supplies, including bulk orders of condoms, to and from brothel locations in Cambridge. Jineok Kim got cash proceeds from each of the Cambridge brothel locations and allegedly laundered the proceeds according to Taehee Kim's instructions, which including depositing the money into accounts belonging to Taehee Kim or sending postal money orders to Taehee Kim.
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