https://deadspin.com/patriots-owner-bob-kraft-charged-with-soliciting-prosti-1832807440?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, one of the most powerful men in American football, was charged today on two counts of soliciting prostitution in connection to a recent law enforcement bust on massage parlors in Florida that, according to law enforcement, were used for prostitution and human trafficking. The news comes a few weeks after the Patriots won their sixth Super Bowl and days after Kraft appeared at the NBA All-Star game.

In a press conference Friday morning, Jupiter Police chief Daniel Kerr said Kraft was charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution. Kerr said there is video evidence of Kraft at the massage parlors.

According to TCPalm.com, the investigation shut down spas that ran from Palm Beach County to Orange County. Of those 10, half were in Indian River County. Speaking about the cases out of Indian River, police said that the women lived at the spas and worked at prostitutes. From TCPalm’s report:

Currey said many came from China on temporary work visas, indebted to the the brokers who helped them reach America, but believing legitimate jobs awaited them.

“Some of them are trying to make a better life for themselves,” he said. “These people truly are stuck.”

They were shamed, intimidated and taught not to speak to law enforcement or immigration officials.

Others answered what they thought were legitimate ads for masseuse jobs, but soon were pressured into doing more.

Another four spas, according to a separate TCPalm report, were in Martin County. A fifth case was in the town of Jupiter. A 16-page probable cause affidavit in the Jupiter case said that as part the investigation officers would do traffic stops on vehicles when they left the Orchids of Asia Day Spa. The affidavit states that officers were told multiple times by the drivers that, inside the spa, a woman had stimulated their penis until climax.

The success and prominence of the Patriots have made Kraft one of the most powerful people in the sport, and he’s taken on a significant role in the league’s labor negotiations. And despite 2015—when Kraft wielded his weight in opposition of NFL’s league leadership after Tom Brady and a couple staffers were accused of deflating game balls, leading to the team being docked a pair of draft picks and fined—he has more often than not given key vocal support to the league’s alternately boring and embarrassing commissioner Roger Goodell.

What the fuck are you going to a handjob house for?

>What the fuck are you going to a handjob house for?

no need to expose yourself so recklessly. keep all that stuff in house and deal with professionals.

Unless he's a veteran in the game...but our country is making it harder and harder to access legitimate escorts.

"Figure out how to find me an escort. This can't get back to me. Here's X dollars to keep you quiet."

I mean, shit, he could afford to fly someone in from Vegas or from overseas or something, lol. He doesn't need to find someone local.

This is the "take an Uber or use the car service" of players getting pinched for DUI.

*I* personally have no idea how to holler at escorts. Pretty sure our government shut down that backpage website that was popular.

basically throwing it at you.

And I don't buy the notion that he's green and doesn't know the game, dude hangs around with football players and rappers.

He just thought he was above the law and got sloppy.

> Pretty
>sure our government shut down that backpage website that was
>popular.

or even lower and middle class folk for that matter.

robert kraft doesn't need backpage or craiglist to get it

at that level he should've had a whole stable of them

This looks like he gets off on the "slumming" part of it more so the actual sex...a billionaire frequenting $ 50 massage parlors?

c'mon son (c)

>at that level he should've had a whole stable of them
>
>This looks like he gets off on the "slumming" part of it more
>so the actual sex...a billionaire frequenting $ 50 massage
>parlors?

Going to a place where he knows the women don't have a choice and have to do it.

Rich people are sick.

unless you expect him to keep escorts on deck for the exact moment the urge hits

breh probably finished a round of golf and was like lemme get this off and get some frozen yogurt real quick.

>unless you expect him to keep escorts on deck for the exact
>moment the urge hits

He certainly has the money to keep a few on the payroll.

>breh probably finished a round of golf and was like lemme get
>this off and get some frozen yogurt real quick.

Which is exactly why you have keep connections to get discreet escorts fast and easy.

Even though it failed. High profile escorts or operations can’t keep a black book and may recognize him. Asian massage parlors probably don’t and the women trafficked from China would have no idea who his wrinkly white ass is.

https://twitter.com/SchmitzMedia/status/1098987574461452290

never could comprehend the urge for this activity but as female twitter says, men are trash!

>https://twitter.com/SchmitzMedia/status/1098987574461452290

Dude is determined to go out in style

PLEASE. PLEASE.

christ

Josh Gordon can't stay on the field for smoking weed

How does the NFL rationalize keeping an owner busted for solicitation?

Just thinking out loud here, but a story about Jeffrey Epstein came across my news feed this morning...wondering if there's a link?

There is no way they are making dude sell the team.

Wasn't he suspended for awhile?

Allegedly, see replies below

there is video

With the NFL losing viewers, can they alienate women and let dude skate?

Probably alot more sympathy for Irsay and his opioid addiction

Sex crimes, in the #metoo era...ehh...feels heavier IMO

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FUCK THAT WHOLE MOTHERFUCKING ORG! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

HOLD THAT L, BOB!

FUCK YOU, FUCK SYSTOM AKA KRAFT CHEESE EYES, FUCK THE RED WHITE AND BLUE UNLESS IT'S BUFFALO, BITCH.

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Soup was had for lunch yesterday.

wow

Thats not a crime.

Just that there is video evidence of him there.

... it seems unlikely that all they have is video of him in the vicinity.

Places, not getting the solicitors.

Someone affiliated with the place probably cooperated by dropping krafts name and the dept is running with it bc of the name.

So point being that the evidence is that he went to the place and eyewitness corroboration of said prostitution.

But that aint really how prostitution cases are prosecuted...I don't see this going verybfar.

he was involved in.

.

definitely involved, will it come out or not is the question lol

I'm like, "what if he knew about the trafficking?"

You cannot be so dismissive of something like this.


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= making hando's great again

aka

immigrants doing the jobs even melania wont do

https://twitter.com/ftbeard_17/status/1099008576650018816

it sounds like the bigger name might not be related to this specific bust but the broader sex trafficking activity down there.

>it sounds like the bigger name might not be related to this
>specific bust but the broader sex trafficking activity down
>there.

Would anyone at all be surprised if someone in the Trump clan was operating in the sex trafficking world?

I'm guessing either Goodell or Jerry Jones.

while he was a us attorney in miami prosecuting a dude who donald trump was a friend/client of. and it just got exposed in court.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/22/judge-slams-labor-secretary-acostas-role-2008-sex-case-plea-deal/2949649002/

theres been speculation for a while now that he worked to cover up for trump and other high profile people (clinton, dershowitz, etc).

the case could get reopened and the investigation continued.

i dont think anyone would be surprised if all of these recent developments were connected in some way.

this shit might look like a season of true detective when its all said and done.

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Yeah, I alluded to it in a previous reply

Wouldn't be the furthest reach to connect these 2 IMO

Also, very convenient that Acosta moves from FL AG to US Labor Secretary...and we immediately get a sex trafficking operation that nets some big fish...hmm

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-prosecutors-broke-law-deal-sex-offender-jeffrey-epstein-n974181

Ruling says team led by now-U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta violated the victims' rights by not informing them of the plea agreement.



Jeffrey Epstein case: Judge rules federal prosecutors broke law
FEB. 22, 201901:48
Feb. 21, 2019, 1:45 PM PST / Updated Feb. 22, 2019, 4:53 AM PST
By Sarah Fitzpatrick, Tom Winter, Kristen Welker, Hallie Jackson and Rich Schapiro
A Florida judge ruled Thursday that federal prosecutors, led by a man who is now President Donald Trump's secretary of labor, broke the law when they signed a plea agreement with financier Jeffrey Epstein without notifying his sex abuse victims.

Epstein, 66, reached a nonprosecution deal in 2008 with then-Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta's office to halt a federal sex abuse investigation involving more than 30 teenage girls. Epstein could have faced a possible life sentence. Instead, he pleaded guilty to state charges, spent 13 months in jail and paid settlements to victims.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra, in a 33-page ruling, said prosecutors violated the victims' rights by not informing them of the deal and instead sending a letter counseling them to have "patience."

"Particularly problematic was the government's decision to conceal the existence of the and mislead the victims to believe that federal prosecution was still a possibility," Marra wrote. "When the government gives information to victims, it cannot be misleading."

Image: Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta at an event in the East Room of the White House on Oct. 6, 2017.Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta at an event in the East Room of the White House on Oct. 6, 2017.Evan Vucci / AP file
A Department of Labor spokesperson released a statement following the judge's ruling.

"For more than a decade, the actions of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida in this case have been defended by the Department of Justice in litigation across three administrations and several attorneys general," it read. "The office’s decisions were approved by departmental leadership and followed departmental procedures. This matter remains in litigation and, thus, for any further comment we refer you to the Department of Justice."

In his ruling, Marra said Epstein and others operated an international sex ring.

"Epstein and his co-conspirators knowingly traveled in interstate and international commerce to sexually abuse Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2 and others, they committed violations of not only Florida law, but also federal law," Marra wrote.

"In addition to his own sexual abuse of the victims, Epstein directed other persons to abuse the girls sexually ... Epstein worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others."

A lawyer for Epstein did not immediately return requests for comment.

The Justice Department has opened a probe into how federal government lawyers handled the case, an official confirmed to NBC News earlier this month.

Sen. Ben Sasse, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary's oversight subcommittee, called for the Justice Department to "reopen its non-prosecution agreement so that Epstein and anyone else who abused these children are held accountable."

"Jeffrey Epstein is a monster and his victims deserve justice," added Sasse, R-Neb.

Attorney Brad Edwards, who represented several victims, applauded the ruling.

"Today’s order represents long overdue vindication for all of the victims of Mr. Epstein and his co-conspirators," Edwards said. "Unfortunately, this decision also highlights the failure of the United States government to acknowledge its obvious wrongdoing. Rather than work to correct the injustices done to the victims, the government spent 10 years defending its own improper conduct."

Lawyer Jeffrey Herman, who also represented women alleging they were abused by Epstein, called Marra's ruling a "step in the right direction."

Epstein — a wealthy money manager who was friends with the likes of Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Britain's Prince Andrew — has been dogged for years by allegations that he sexually abused dozens of teenage girls at his Palm Beach mansion and elsewhere in the early 2000s.

In December, he struck a last-minute deal to avoid a civil trial that would have allowed some of his victims to finally testify against him in open court.

The deal included a financial settlement, the details of which were kept confidential, NBC Miami reported. It also included an apology from Epstein to Edwards, who had accused Epstein of trying to ruin his reputation as retaliation for having represented the accusers.

In the Thursday ruling, the judge detailed several instances of questionable communications and coordination between prosecutors and Epstein’s attorneys over a 9-month period starting in January 2007.

One communication discussed an apparent promise made between Acosta and Epstein's attorney Jay Lefkowitz.

Marra wrote: "U.S. Attorney Acosta then met with Lefkowitz for breakfast and Lefkowitz followed up with a letter stating, 'I also want to thank you for the commitment you made to me during our October 12 meeting in which you . . . assured me that your Office would not . . . contact any of the identified individuals, potential witnesses, or potential civil claimants and their respective counsel in this matter.'"

Marra said that a prosecutor sent an email to Epstein's lawyer detailing a plan to file charges in a separate Miami court "which will hopefully cut the press coverage significantly."

In a separate email, a prosecutor said that while they would mention Epstein's co-conspirators to a judge, “I would prefer not to highlight for the judge all of the other crimes and all of the other persons that we could charge," according to the court papers.

Other exchanges listed by the judge refer to "off-campus" meetings between prosecutors and Epstein’s attorneys as well as a request to email the assistant U.S. Attorney at his home address.

The desire to avoid putting communications in writing or outside of normal channels extended to the state prosecutor as well, the judge wrote. "On September 21, 2007, Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer wrote the line prosecutor about the proposed agreement and added: 'Glad we could get this worked out for reasons I won't put in writing. After this is resolved I would love to buy you a cup at Starbucks and have a conversation,'" the court papers say.

Marra also referenced a letter Acosta sent to Epstein lawyer Kenneth Starr, the former independent counsel whose recommendations led to the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton. "I am directing our prosecutors not to issue victim notification letters until this Friday at 5 p.m., to provide you with time to review these options with your client," read the letter dated Nov. 30, 2007, according to the court papers.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/509685152159903744?s=20

that's why he got on Meek Mill's good side...that good jailhouse protection...lmfao.

god i'm glad i quit football this year (save for the super bowl which sucked ass and reminded me i was right to quit)

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>that's why he got on Meek Mill's good side...that good
>jailhouse protection...lmfao.

*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1098651139506143237

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"To Each His Reach"

but.....

Fuck aliens.

https://twitter.com/PerryNBCBoston/status/1098989562150469632

Police say they have video of Kraft participating in the act. Police say he was driven to the parlor. Police say they’re working on warrant for his arrest. Police say they’re stunned like everyone else @NBC10Boston

on that ass.

#FreeRob
#freetheguys
#FreeBigBob
#ganggang

Blow to the head.

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No one needs to see any of that

Click the link to see the excerpts of the actual documents. Sounds like it was between $100-200 a session

https://deadspin.com/robert-kraft-went-to-orchids-of-asia-on-the-morning-of-1832876333

The Palm Beach State Attorney’s office has released probable cause documents for the men charged in their bust on sex trafficking rings across South Florida. That group includes Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who, if you haven’t heard, is facing two charges of soliciting prostitution at the Orchids of Asia day spa. With the release of those documents, Kraft’s name is now connected to “Male 13,” whose actions were anonymously described along with those of 25 other men in Friday’s probable cause affidavit for Orchids of Asia owner Hua Zhang. Here’s what it has to say about Kraft:

Take note of that date. In my scrutinizing of the original affidavit on Friday in an attempt to figure out which unnamed male was Kraft, I totally threw out every john from that day. It just seemed unlikely, if not too weird even to be possible. That’s because Jan. 20, 2019, was the same day that the Patriots beat the Chiefs to win the AFC Championship. So Robert Kraft went to a seedy massage parlor in a Florida strip mall at 11 a.m. that Sunday, then presumably got on his private plane and flew to Kansas City, where he watched the NFL team he owns punch a ticket to the Super Bowl. Rich people are so fucking bizarre.

Update (2:44 p.m. ET) Kraft has also been identified as Male 8, which accounts for his second count of soliciting prositution. Yes, he went twice in less than 24 hours:

You know what's up!

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... immediately after leaving the strip mall after his 1st trip. So like - they kinda gave him an out. How the hell wasn't that a(nother) red flag for him to not go back ?

Then he goes back the next fucking day.

Christ almighty.

"hey, Bob, uh, we are doing a sting, please just dont get handjobs in this mall"

"i dont take advice from peasants" -- Bob, probably

>"hey, Bob, uh, we are doing a sting, please just dont get
>handjobs in this mall"
>
>"i dont take advice from peasants" -- Bob, probably

>"hey, Bob, uh, we are doing a sting, please just dont get
>handjobs in this mall"
>
>"i dont take advice from peasants" -- Bob, probably

.

I bartended my way through college and came to befriend a wealthy regular customer

One day he comes in the bar, a little early, still slow

Him - I just bought a new car, it's parked out front, check it out

Me - walking over to the window expecting to see some exotic luxury car...

It's a fucking ford focus, LOL

Rich people don't think they have to actually pay for shit

I'm surprised MAGA Kraft even tipped ol' girl TBH

my friend bartended a fancy party at a rich person's place. it was an open bar and he got completely screwed by the combo of rich people not carrying cash/assuming he was being paid well by the party host. they had the tip jar out, but because people didn't start tipping early in the night they thought it was just their for decoration or something.

>my friend bartended a fancy party at a rich person's place.
>it was an open bar and he got completely screwed by the combo
>of rich people not carrying cash/assuming he was being paid
>well by the party host. they had the tip jar out, but because
>people didn't start tipping early in the night they thought it
>was just their for decoration or something.

Many folks don't carry cash like that anymore and don't really care how the bartenders are actually getting paid. Hell, I think people mostly tip out of obligation anyway.

Tipping well at an open bar is definitely the move if you really do wanna fucked up. I dropped a $20 in the jar at a Xmas party once and dude poured me half the bottle over the course of the night.

The only people who try and negotiate the price of a fucking movie theater soda

Just pay the fine and K.I.M.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/08/donald-trump-pictured-founder-florida-spa-robert-kraft-prostitution-charge

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/report-florida-prosecutors-offer-robert-kraft-deal-to-drop-solicitation-charges-173620196.html

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They could have busted in there on suspicion of illegal immigrants being employed

Seems like a lot of effort to just let all the Johns walk

I think the fish are too big

In the end...all they got are the girls anyway...?

No idea.

Now they're arresting billionaires and dealing with their high-priced attorneys. Rather than make an example of these guys, which could drag out, they're offering deals to get everything off their plate. So the billionaires get to say that they weren’t convicted of solicitation, but they'd have to admit that the prosecutors had enough evidence to convict them. This way, everyone can claim "victory."

this whole thing is like a montage of justice-hopelessness at the end of a Wire season

even on the Johns'/defense part

Pay the fine, KIM, and I doubt the stigma would linger

Fighting this and dragging it out is actually makes it a worse look for the Johns

Also weird that the vids haven't been leaked

We were told the NFL couldn't get a copy of the Ray Rice vid

...and the poof, there it was...

>Also weird that the vids haven't been leaked
>
>We were told the NFL couldn't get a copy of the Ray Rice vid
>
>...and the poof, there it was...

He's spending a shit ton of money on attorney fees fighting these charges.

You know what would have been a lot cheaper? Hiring an escort.

You know how many "dates" he could have paid for with the money he's now throwing at his lawyer?

if that leads somewhere then its all worth it imo.

also if paul manafort is getting soccer score years for shitting on the criminal justice system throught the entire judicial process...then you know some billionaires aint facing any real consequences for some tugjobs.

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I first need people to call bullshit before they figure out ways to live with it

IRT Cindy Yang...didn't she claim she sold the spa

Why would they need a prostitution sting to charge her with being a Chinese spy, or selling access to Trumpster

Those pics went viral, so I imagine folks that need to know already did

Looks like the same blatant violation associated with the whole administration

How does this lead to that, in legal terms?

+1, manafort got soccer numbers, you think ol girl caves...for whatever she is alleged to have done...?

This has gotta be a way to force Kraft to plead guilty. Make a deal or have the tape released.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26546417/kraft-legal-team-battles-video-release

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

it will probably end up with the tapes Goodell “destroyed”

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

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I'd imagine this effectively kills the case against him.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26740141/judge-suppresses-video-kraft-solicitation-case

disappointed but not surprised

That seems problematic in itself. But it's definitely not a good look if his video is suppressed but all the other suspects' videos are released

Charges dropped

Burn it down.

i'll see myself out lol

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

maybe he sent his buddy Bob Kraft in on an covert mission, and didn't want to blow his cover.