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发帖数: 901 | 1 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A high-end prostitution ring catering to Wall Street
clients who often would spend over $10,000 for a night bingeing on sex and
cocaine has been busted and 17 people indicted, authorities said on
Wednesday.
"The business of high-end prostitution is enormously profitable," Brooklyn
District Attorney Charles Hynes told a news conference, adding that the ring
earned more than $7 million over three years.
Hynes said clients often spent in excess of $10,000 in a single night. He
said they were "all high-end customers coming from the financial markets.
People with nothing but money."
The prostitution service, named High Class NY, was run 24 hours a day out of
an office in Brooklyn and charged from $400 to $3,600 an hour for its
services, according to the 144-count indictment. It also provided customers
with cocaine and other narcotics, the indictment said.
Police said the sophisticated business ran several escort websites and used
dummy corporations with misleading names and codes during business-related
phone calls.
Among those websites were discreteclub.com, cupiddirect.com and
angelofyourchoice.com. Many of the websites were still online on Wednesday
afternoon.
The prostitution and drug service also advertised its wares on popular
social networking websites such as Craigslist and backpage.com, said Jonah
Bruno, a spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.
Bruno added that many of the clients could possibly be forced to pay fines
of up to $250 in addition to attending a one-night multiple hour educational
program for "Johns," or customers of prostitutes.
High Class NY even had a law firm draw up employment contracts for its
prostitutes, who described themselves as models and fraudulently agreed to
refrain from sexual contact with clients, police said.
"They were on the high-end of sophistication," said Vice Detective Joe
Panico.
Indicted were High Class NY owner, Mikhail Yampolsky and his wife,
Bronislava, who allegedly used the proceeds from their business to finance
expensive trips to Atlantic City and luxury car purchases, Hynes said.
Also indicted were Yampolsky's son Alexander, stepson Jonathan, 11 managers
and supervisors and two investors, Efim Gorelik and Yakov Maystrovich, he
said.
Each of the investors had put $700,000 into High Class NY and were being
paid back with interest, he said.
Each of those indicted faces the possibility of 25 years in prison if
convicted. Two prostitutes face separate indictments on prostitution and
drug charges. |
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