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Campbell was accused of exploiting immigrant women by having them work at his massage parlor and perform sexual favors for money (called “extras”) pocketed by Campbell; he allegedly kept the women under constant threat of deportation.
At trial, witness after witness testified about Campbell’s reign of terror.
But the trial came to an abrupt halt when Ukrainian immigrant Liudmyla “Liuda” Ksenych told prosecutors that she recognized defense attorney Rathe as a client from the massage parlor where she worked for Campbell.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Gettleman declared a mistrial.
In the meantime, in a hearing that had to give new meaning to the words “awkward” and “uncomfortable,” Rathe testified about how he was indeed a massage client of “Liuda,” and had given her gifts and exchanged e-mails with her—but that there was no sex involved.
Campbell is set for a new trial in January, and with a new defense attorney—one who hasn’t frequented his massage parlors.

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Feds Get 17th Conviction in Koreatown Sex Trafficking Case
Min Su Cho was convicted in Manhattan Federal Court on Monday. (Flickr/cdogstar)
MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — The 17th and last member of an international sex trafficking ring that operated out of massage parlors in Midtown’s Koreatown was convicted by a Manhattan jury on Monday, federal prosecutors said.
Min Su Cho, was considered a “broker” in the operation that provided women from New Jersey, California and Korea to brothels in Koreatown. After a week-long jury trial in Manhattan Federal Court, she was convicted of conspiring to transport prostitutes over state lines, prosecutors said.
“The conviction of Min Su Cho closes a chapter in the prosecution of those responsible for a vast, international sex trafficking ring that exploited countless women,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: “The conviction of Min Su Cho closes a chapter in the prosecution of those responsible for a vast, international sex trafficking ring that exploited countless women. This guilty verdict also sends a clear message to others engaging in similar conduct that they will be punished.”
According to the superseding indictment and the evidence presented at trial:
A network of brothels in the Koreatown section of Manhattan masqueraded as massage parlors and used various brokers and taxi drivers to provide a steady supply of women to engage in prostitution. CHO was a broker who supplied prostitutes from New Jersey, Los Angeles, and Korea to these brothels, which were operated by other defendants in the case. Brokers like CHO received anywhere from $200 to $500 each from both the brothel owners and the prostitutes for facilitating connections between them.

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… Ridgewood police and members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office this month busted a massage parlor sev­eral blocks off Route 17 on North Maple Avenue. The team carried out the arrest of a woman allegedly solicit­ing prostitution to an undercover offi­cer.
“My concern when dealing with po­tential prostitution operations is the clientele they may bring into the area,” Ridgewood Police Chief John M. Ward said.
“They can bring collateral damage to the neighborhood,” such as perverse behavior, drugs and weapons, he said.
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“We’re talking about two types of services that are offered,” Gurney said of what police must monitor. “The massage parlors and then there’s the use of the Internet dating/escort type of services where people meet up in local hotels.”
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Mahwah ordinances prohibit massage parlors, so arrests by police are generated out of the hotels in the township, Batelli said.

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And Whitehead lands an occasional jab as the skels obliterate the line between Live Nudes! — I remember that Times Square — and the dead ones.
The plague carriers wander the landscape “like wedding guests looking for cocktails after the ceremony.” They are “the man on the bus no one sat next to (or) the haggard mystic screeching verdicts on the crowded subway car.” Assistant principals and dead-beat dads.
Heck, “it was no longer a skel, but a version of something that predated the anguishes. Now it was one of those laid-off or ruined businessmen who pretend to go to the office for the family’s sake, spending all day on a park bench with missing slats to feed the pigeons bagel bits, his briefcase full of empty potato-chip bags and fliers for massage parlors. The city had long carried its own plague.”

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In 2005, RFR Holdings head Aby Rosen gave Jennie Saunders the first six floors of the condominium he was building at 60 East 55th Street to house her club for the rich and famous.
As a recent profile in Departures magazine highlighted, the club, known as Core Club, has become a haven for New York elites from all industries, including Blackstone Group President Stephen Schwarzman, architect Richard Meier, football legend Dan Marino and Hollywood talent agent Ari Emanuel. Many of those same people were among the 150 people who invested $100,000 to get Core Club off the ground.
The club has renowned chefs (in fact, the first chef, Dan Kluger was poached by Jean-Georges Vongerichten for ABC Kitchen), one of the city’s best barbers, a renowned facialist, a massage parlor, a gym, famous artworks hanging from the walls, a library and a screening room — all for a $50,000 initiation fee and $15,000 in annual dues.
[Departures]

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Newark police bungle massage parlor bust and sting the people’s trust
Published: Friday, October 14, 2011, 6:01 AM
Patti Sapone/The Star Ledger Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio
According to the signs posted at 168 Bloomfield Ave., Spa 168 and a chiropractor’s office occupied the second floor of the Newark building.
However, people who live and work in the area said the second floor was lit up at all hours. Somehow, they don’t think any chiropractor works at 5 a.m. Someone also told me “scantily clad” women sometimes congregated on the sidewalk, waiting to be buzzed in, to go to work.
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In July DeMaio promised a crackdown on prostitution in the city. Yet no written policy? And how could a massage parlor open up again, in the same location, after being shut down?

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The League of Women Voters of Mountain Lakes (LWVML) invites all to a presentation of “Human Trafficking: In Our Own Jersey Backyard” on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 9:30 a.m., 65 Melrose Rd.
At a U.N. meeting, Elizabeth Santeramo heard a survivor share her story of being trafficked as a sex slave in California at the age of 16.
Santeramo was inspired to organize a panel in Montclair, co-sponsored with Delta Sigma Pi at Montclair State University. The goal is to teach people to protect themselves from being abducted on campus, recognize and anonymously report massage parlors that function as sex spas, work with and train local law officials on how to identify and help victims and to become more aware so that everyone can make a difference and even save someone.

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New Providence Police Blotter, October 13, 2011  
09-28-2011- Patrolman Michael Scuorzo charged Zachary Bence, age 23, of Wayne with driving while suspended after a random license plate inquiry revealed the suspension.
10-01-2011- A borough resident reported her car was burglarized while she was dining at a restaurant in town.  A laptop was taken and the theft investigation has been turned over to the Detective Bureau.
10-03-2011- A resident of Passaic Street report… October 13, 2011
Possible Massage Parlor in New Providence Stirs Controversy
 
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ – The controversy is continuing to grow around a proposed spa that has local officials skeptical as to the nature of the business.
 
The planning board met Tuesday night to discuss the proposal to turn the former McGrath’s Hardware site into several separate shops. At the planning board’s request, each of the business owners presented details about their stores. 
 
…October 13, 2011

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Northvale Police arrest woman on prostitution charges
Thursday, October 13, 2011    Last updated: Thursday October 13, 2011, 9:57 AM
NORTHVALE — Police arrested a New York woman on a count of prostitution during an undercover investigation of a massage parlor, authorities said.
Comfortable Spa Inc., at 140 Paris Ave., was operating as a massage parlor and day spa. Investigators from the police department and the county prosecutor’s office began the undercover operation after receiving several anonymous complaints of suspicious activity, the police department said in a statement.
Meihua Zhang, 39, of Flushing, N.Y., was charged with one count of prostitution on Wednesday. She was taken to the Bergen County Jail on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement warrant, said Police Chief Vincent St. Angelo.
The borough building official suspended the business’ certificate of occupancy, and the investigation into the business remains ongoing, St. Angelo said.

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