Japan’s Comfort Women Backpack Issue: Examining the Facts
One of the most bizarre stories of the 1960s is that of elderly Korean women who claim that Japanese soldiers force them at gunpoint to work as sex slaves. The Japanese government responds that in 1965, the claims More...
South Korean Government Official Embroiled In Fraud Case Against Comfort Women Group
As South Korea experiences a new wave of the COVID-19 virus, the country is faced with a crisis of a different kind. Owing to the public announcement of former comfort woman Lee Yong-soo, the government is now embroiled More...
Dallas man Tremont Blakemore charged with human trafficking for over 7 years
A Dallas man was charged Wednesday with operating a large-scale human trafficking organization. These charges were announced by U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. This case was investigated More...
Kentucky Woman, Cleoretta Allen Pleads Guilty to Sex Trafficking 2 Victims
Cleoretta Allen, 41, of Louisville, Kentucky, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky to two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion and one count of interstate More...
Aryeh Goodman and Richard Ortiz Sentenced for Their Roles in Prostitution Ring Involving a Minor
A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man and a Bronx, New York, man have been sentenced for their respective roles in a 2018 scheme in which a minor was advertised and provided for commercial sex acts, U.S. Attorney More...
MPAA Hollywood Exec Steven Fabrizio arrested for rape, blackmailing a prostitute, fired yesterday
A big Hollywood executive, Steven Fabrizio, was arrested and charged with rape and blackmail after meeting a woman on a dating website, threatening to tell her family and employer that she was paid for sex after More...
Prostitute Angelina Barini arrested for three fentanyl related murders, including Chef Andrea Zamperoni
A New York prostitute named Angelina Barini has been arrested in connection to three deaths, charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one or more substances containing fentanyl. Andrea More...
Kentwood Resident, Dominique Berry Charged with Stealing Identities for Prostitution Scheme
U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DOMINIQUE ALAINA BERRY, age 30, a resident of Kentwood, Louisiana, was charged today in a two-count bill of information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bank More...
ICE and Homeland Security arrest Yohanna Gonzalez-McFarlane for smuggling women across US as prostitutes
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, working jointly with the FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Postal More...
Metairie Man, Pascal Calogero Sentenced to 121 Months for Sex Trafficking of 14 Year Old
U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that PASCAL CALOGERO, III, age 60, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance after previously pleading guilty More...
Rochester Man, Michael Williams Gets 15 Years for Recruiting Minor to Work as Prostitute
U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Williams, 52, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of sex trafficking of a minor, was sentenced to serve 188 months in prison by Chief U.S. District More...
Jeffrey Epstein Charged in Manhattan Federal Court with Sex Trafficking of Minors
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation More...
Burnsville Man, Dontay Reese Sentenced to 324 Months for Violent Kidnapping
United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of DONTAY LAVARICE REESE, 38, to 324 months in prison for a violent kidnapping. REESE, who pleaded guilty on February 13, 2019, was sentenced More...
California Couple, Eva Christian and Robert Duncan Charged with Sex Trafficking of a Child
Eva Symone Christian, 22, of Sacramento, was arrested on June 14, 2019, and Robert Pierre Duncan, 24, of Galt, was arrested by FBI agents on May 31, 2019. Duncan and Christian are charged in a two-count indictment, More...
Conoly and Andre Franklin Charged of Attempted Enticement of Children for Prostitution
Today, a federal jury convicted Defendants Conoly Freddie Franklin and Andre Anthony Franklin of attempted enticement of minors to engage in prostitution, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). Defendant Conoly More...
Tuscon IT programmer, Daniel Courville, gets over five years of jail time in child porn case
Daniel Courville, a former IT programmer, was sentenced Monday to nearly six years in prison for possessing child pornography following an investigation lead by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The sentence More...
Iowa Man, Mark Spicer Pleads Guilty for Interstate Transportation of a Minor for Prostitution
United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced that Mark Spicer, a/k/a Chief, age 24, of Iowa, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of interstate transportation of an individual under the age of eighteen More...
Human Trafficking Attorney: Understand the Roles and Benefits
Human trafficking is a misunderstood concept. Nowadays, awareness of this concept is increasing among lawyers and ordinary people. A human traffiking attorney is responsible for representing the victim of human More...
Local, state, feds rally to target human traffickers during NASCAR Coca-Cola 600
Representatives from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, as well as nonprofit organizations, came together Wednesday and Thursday to target potential human traffickers and aid victims during the More...
New York Man, Akbar Muhammad Indicted for Heroin and Interstate Prostitution
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Akbar Muhammad, age 42, of New York, was indicted on May 14, 2019, by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to distribute More...
