Prostitution Law
 
United States of America v. William D. Foster

Miami, Florida criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with running a sex trafficking organization for more than 20 years that exploited dozens of vulnerable women and girls.

At any given time, up to 15 women and girls lived with, and worked for, William D. Foster, age 60. Through manipulation, lies, and threats, Foster forced his victims to work at South Florida exotic dance

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United States of America v. Xiang Yue Jin

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with making bribe payments to protect her illicit massage parlors in Cary and Wilmington from law enforcement scrutiny in 2020 and 2021.

In August 2020, the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) began an investigation into illicit massage parlors in Durham, Raleigh, and Wilmington

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United States of America v. Rafael Robinson

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with sex trafficking an adult by force.

Rafael Robinson, 35, of Philadelphia, PA, is the fourth and final member of a brutal sex trafficking ring in West Philadelphia to be sentenced. According to court documents, the four defendants ran a strip club, known as “Club Passions,” and a brothel, known as

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United States of America v. Robert Pierre Duncan

Sacramento, California criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with sex trafficking of a minor.

Between September and October 2018, Duncan recruited a 17-year-old girl to engage in prostitution in Oakland and San Francisco. He frequently drove the victim to areas known for prostitution activity where he caused her to have sex with strangers for money, which he kept. Duncan also post

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United States of America v. Ramon Raudel Campos Murillo

Alexandria, Virginia criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with aiding and abetting the transportation of a woman for purposes of prostitution.

From 2009 to 2010, Ramon Raudel Campos Murillo, 45, of Michoacan, Mexico, along with other individuals, conspired to operate a sex trafficking organization. In 2010, he aided and abetted those who drove a young woman from Maryland to loca

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United States of America v. Dillon Jordan, a/k/a “Daniel Jordan,” a/k/a “Daniel Maurice Hatton,” a/k/a “Daniel Bohler”

New York City, New York criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with violating the Mann Act..From in or about 2010 through at least in or about May 2017, Dillon Jordan operated a prostitution business throughout the United States and abroad.

Dillon Jordan, 50, of Arrowhead Lake, California maintained a roster of women who resided around the United States and who, in exchange for p

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State of Oklahoma v. Brad Michael Pugh Defendant, and Jennifer Lee De La Ossa

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal lawyer represented Defendant, charged with:
Child Human Trafficking

Count # 1. Count as Filed: CHTR, CHILD HUMAN TRAFFICKING, in violation of 21 O.S. 748
Date of Offense: 02/15/2020
Party Name Disposition Information
PUGH, BRAD MICHAEL Disposed: CONVICTION, 10/04/2021. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: CHILD PROSTITUTION, DETENTION OR PROCURE

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United States of America v. Thomas Daniel Johnson

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempted coercion and/or enticement of a minor.

Thomas Daniel Johonson, age 49, of Sand Springs, Oklahoma was convicted in February, 2022, for engaging in a sexualized relationship with a minor and attempting to coerce or entire the minor in sexual activity.

This fraudulent mentor’s illicit acts were broug

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United States of America v. Eugene Deshon Hall

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with illegal possession of a firearm.

On October 19, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a two-count Superseding Indictment that alleged illegal possession of a firearm and witness tampering. Federal law prohibits a person who has previously been convicted of felony from possessing a firearm or ammunition. On

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Angela Williams v. Steve Sisolak

Las Vegas, Nevada personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendant on civil rights violation theories.


he plaintiffs divide the defendants into five groups for ease of reference: (1) “State Defendants;” (2) “City Defendants;” (3) “Escort Agency Defendants;” (4) “Strip Club Defendants;” and (5) “Brothel Defendants

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United States of America v. Oscar Carter

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with coercion and enticement of an individual to travel to engage in illegal sexual activity and conspiracy to commit the offense.

Oscar Carter, age 38, pleaded guilty to two counts.

The court was advised that on or about March 6, 2018, to on or about March 14, 2018, Carter conspired and agreed with an

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United States of America v. Naresh Rane

Trenton, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged for producing and selling fraudulent massage therapy training certificates for use in various New Jersey massage parlors that engaged in prostitution.

Naresh Rane, 68, of Tewksbury, New Jersey, indicted for knowingly and intentionally using and causing the use of facilities in interstate commerce to promote, manage,

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State of Oklahoma v. Kelsie Marie Higgins and Demetreus Deon Cureington

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with robbery by force or fear in violation of 21 O.S. 792, which provides:

To constitute robbery, the force or fear must be employed either to obtain or retain possession of the property, or to prevent or overcome resistance to the taking. If employed merely as a means of escape, it does not constitute robbery.
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United States of America v. Jeffrey Marsh and Zaqouri Traves Archer

Springfield, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with kidnapping and threatening to kill the victim and her family.

Jeffrey Marsh, 34, of Oronogo, Mo., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, one count of kidnapping, one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and one count of stalking.

Co-defendant Zaqouri Traves Arch

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State of Oklahoma v. Sudara Lashay Whatley

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
Distribution of A CDS- Cocaine

Count # 1. Count as Filed: ODO, DISTRIBUTION OF A CDS- COCAINE, in violation of 63 O.S. 2-401-2-420
Date of Offense: 12/11/2018
Party Name Disposition Information
WHATLEY, SUDARA LASHAY Disposed: DEFERRED, 06/14/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: DI

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United States of America v. Louis Gregory Venning, a/k/a “December”

Billings, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sex trafficking and drug investigation that involved more than a dozen women and girls who were forced by threats and violence into prostitution in Montana.

Louis Gregory Venning, also known as “December,” 42, pleaded guilty in November 2021 to sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, sex traffic

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United States of America v. Robert Sylvester Kelly, a/k/a R. Kelly

New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with violating the Mann Act.

R&B singer Robert Sylvester Kelly, a/k/a R. Kelly's musical career will come to a permanent end when he is sentenced on June 30, 2022. He was found guilty of violation the Mann Act on September 27, 2021 of sex trafficking women and girls.


The defendant, an international mu

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United States of America v. Rodney Kent a/k/a "Hot Rodd"

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sex trafficking, arising from his forcible coercion of a minor to engage in prostitution.

In September 2018, Rodney Kent a/k/a "Hot Rodd" was charged by Indictment for sex trafficking of a minor via force, fraud and coercion stemming from his actions to traffic the victim. The defendant and the victim fi

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United States of America v. Lonnie Dontae Mitchell

Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with coercing several victims, including a minor, to engage in prostitution over the course of several years.

Lonnie Dontae Mitchell, age 36, targeted vulnerable victims who struggled with drug addictions, and then manipulated their drug addictions for his benefit. He increased the victims’ use of heroin and

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United States of America v. Gregory Mancini

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with child sexual exploitation.

Gregory Mancini traveled to Georgia from Erie, Pennsylvania for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a 13-year-old boy. Upon arriving in Georgia, Mancini traveled to meet with the boy and was subsequently taken into custody by the Hall County, Georgia Sheriffâ

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United States of America v. Zongtao Chen a/k/a Mark Chen

Portland, Oregon criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with international sex trafficking organization operating dozens of illegal Asian brothels in the United States, Canada and Australia.

Zongtao Chen aka Mark Chen, 49, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, led a criminal enterprise that recruited women, primarily from China, to travel to the United States and elsewhere to engage

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State of Florida v. Duwayne Lindell Jamerson

Ocala, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant who was charged with two counts lewd molestation of a child under 12.

800.04 Lewd or lascivious offenses committed upon or in the presence of persons less than 16 years of age.—
(1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section:
(a) “Sexual activity” means the oral, anal, or vaginal pen

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United States of America v. Anthony Jones

Wilmington, Delaware criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with trafficking minor and young adult victims throughout the mid-Atlantic region.

Anthony Jones, 38, of Wilmington, Delaware, was convicted by a federal jury in April 2019 following a 14-day trial. Jones was found guilty of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors by force, fraud or coercion, and of sex

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United States of America v. Michael Mesko

Buffalo, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.

Between October 8, 2020, and January 9, 2021, Michael Mesko, age 52, of Cheektowaga, New York, engaged in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old minor female (Victim 1), who was mentally disabled. Mesko communicated with Victim 1 via text message and mobile chat ap

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United States of America v. Tristan Warner

Albany, New York criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempted online enticement of a minor.

As part of his guilty plea, Warner admitted that between about October 2020 and January 15, 2021, he exchanged electronic messages, via text and through a social networking platform, with someone he believed to be the mother of an 11-year-old girl. In those messages, Warner

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