A Massachusetts woman pleaded guilty on Friday to running a high-end brothel network in the greater Boston area and the suburbs of Washington that served wealthy and well-connected clientele including politicians, corporate executives, lawyers and military officers.

Han Lee appeared in Boston federal court to plead guilty to charges that she conspired to persuade, induce and entice primarily Asian women to travel to Massachusetts and Virginia to engage in prostitution and committed money laundering.

She was the first to admit wrongdoing of the three individuals who prosecutors charged in November in connection with a sex ring run out of apartment complexes in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts and Fairfax and Tysons, Virginia.

Lee, 42, faces up to 25 years in prison when she is sentenced Dec. 20. She stressed when addressing U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick that while she ran an illegal prostitution business, she did not force any women to engage in sex work.

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    333 months ago

    Why is this a crime? I’d suck dick for enough money and I’m a cis male. People getting paid for their effort shouldn’t be a crime.

    • @qarbone
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      -123 months ago

      I’m trying to understand that middle sentence.

      Being a cis male doesn’t really affect whether you’d suck a dick, for money or otherwise. I can only assume you meant to put “hetero” [vs “homo”]. And I’d say you’re pretty flexy on that “hetero” if you’d suck dick for any reason.

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          3 months ago

          When someone explains how to make a joke more accurate, it’s not because they don’t understand the joke. It’s because they understand the joke better than the person who made it.

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        “hetero” isn’t about not being able to suck dicks. It’s about not getting sexually pleased by that.

        • @qarbone
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          13 months ago

          Text alone cannot contain the amount of sarcasm I’d need to reply to this.

          Have a good day.

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            13 months ago

            Text alone cannot contain the amount of sarcasm I’d need to reply to this.

            Maybe sucking dick can?