Saturday, February 23, 2019

If there's sleaze, check to see if Trump was involved


President Donald Trump says the prostitution solicitation charges against Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots and his longtime personal friend, are “very sad.”

Kraft is one of 25 individuals being charged with soliciting prostitution at a spa in Jupiter, Florida, that was part of an alleged sex trafficking ring, local law enforcement authorities announced Friday.

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“He’s proclaimed his innocence totally, but I was very surprised to see it,” Trump said.

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[P]olice say they have obtained video of Kraft receiving the “alleged acts.”

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The Republican president’s relationship the the billionaire NFL owner dates back decades. Kraft even attended Trump’s wedding with his third wife and now-first lady Melania Trump and says Trump constantly called him following the death of his own wife Myra in 2011.

“He was one of the few people who went out of their way and went above and beyond to assist me through the most difficult time in my life,” Kraft told The Boston Globe in 2015.

  Boston.com
I wonder what those phone calls were like.



Cold captioning.


To be clear, the Jupiter spa that Donald Trump was tweeting about is an entirely different Jupiter spa from the one where Robert Kraft was busted. They just happened to be located in the same Florida city. There is no indication that Trump’s Jupiter spa is caught up in the current takedown.

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ESPN is reporting that Robert Kraft may not even be the biggest name involved in the scandal, which strongly suggests that another shoe is about to drop. [...] But the question in the political world is, of course, whether Donald Trump is involved.

  Palmer Report
Officials say Kraft is accused of soliciting a prostitute on at least 2 separate occasions at a massage parlor in Florida roughly "a month ago."

Cops say the name of the establishment that Kraft visited is Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter.

Cops say they have obtained evidence from body cam video and surveillance that has been conducted over the last several months.

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Kraft has been charged with a misdemeanor.

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Multiple law enforcement agencies were involved in the operation -- including Homeland Security, the IRS, the Jupiter P.D., Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office and more.

  TMZ Sports
Gee, it's a shame DHS didn't let Trump know so he could warn off his friend.
The investigation took roughly 8 months and officials say they've identified more than 100 men suspected of being "Johns."

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Officials say the women accused of running the sex trafficking ring operated out of local spas which touted themselves as massage parlors.
So, surely they have busts in other spas there in town.
A spokesperson for Kraft tells TMZ Sports the NFL owner denies the allegations.

"We categorically deny that Mr. Kraft engaged in any illegal activity. Because it is a judicial matter, we will not be commenting further."
Were they not aware of the video when they gave that statement?
According to police documents obtained by TMZ Sports, officials were able to get a covert surveillance camera inside the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida to record illicit activity.

Cops list a variety of sex acts performed on 26 men who entered the business -- one of whom cops say is Robert Kraft. Kraft is not identified by name in the police documents.

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The men would enter the spa and pay up front (some used cash, others used credit cards) before being escorted back into a private massage room.

In almost every case, an Asian woman would tend to the client -- sometimes two women -- and perform sex acts using their hands and mouths.

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Cops say the surveillance videos capture every single detail of the encounters -- including ejaculation and subsequent cleanup.
I bet those are popular videos in the Jupiter PD.

How many spas are there in Jupiter?

Listed on Google maps, there appear to be fifteen. Why are most of them all strung out on one street? What goes on in Jupiter?  Or is that typical for coastal towns of only 65,000 people?






...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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