Here’s a story for New Englanders… “Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Charged in Florida Prostitution Sting” (nytimes):
Robert K. Kraft, the billionaire owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, was charged Friday with two counts of soliciting sex as part of a wide-ranging investigation into prostitution and human trafficking in South Florida.
The charges against Mr. Kraft, 77, came after the police in Jupiter, Fla., used video surveillance to observe activity inside several day spas and massage parlors.
One of the most powerful owners in American sports, he is a leading voice in the N.F.L.’s small fraternity of billionaire owners, a member of the committee that sets Commissioner Roger Goodell’s salary, and a friend and political benefactor of President Trump.
All of the sexual encounters that have resulted in charges were videotaped as part of the investigation, the police said.
Mr. Kraft was said to have patronized a spa called Orchids of Asia in Jupiter … The mall, anchored on one end by an Outback Steakhouse,
NYT readers express the appropriate amount of outrage in the comments. A few do ask, essentially, “If the guy has a Gulfstream, why doesn’t he go to a place where prostitution is legal?”
Plainly this is Donald Trump’s fault, somehow, but if the accusation is “human trafficking” could it be that Trump’s proposed tightening of undocumented immigration would actually reduce the number of brothels next to Outbacks? The managers of Mustang Ranch cannot sponsor H-1B visas on the grounds that the job is a “specialty occupation requiring a bachelor’s degree,” can they?
Related:
- https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2016/05/10/where-new-york-times-readers-dont-want-to-follow-europe-legalized-prostitution/
- https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2017/02/05/hawaii-legislature-looking-at-legalizing-prostitution-and-marijuana/
- https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2018/12/31/cuba-could-attract-americans-with-sin/
- https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2018/12/22/if-prostitution-is-legalized-will-there-be-confidentiality-provisions/
- Florida family law (potentially unlimited child support profits following sex with a high-income partner)
I think this is a hoax.
Prostitution, huh? And who would pay money to have sex with Robert Kraft, aged 77? Not even his buddy Trump, no: he’d rather pick a former Playboy model.
Besides, being a rich person, why would Kraft be interested in such a petty income on the side? I don’t see how it’s easier than simply improving his skills of tax avoidance.
Except that he probably didn’t pay his fair share of taxes earned in this adventure.
I’ll quit reading for sure if there’s even one story on this blog without a child support or alimony reference.
Orchids of Asia hired only women so this is partly a story about employment discrimination against men.
Kraft was charged with “two counts of soliciting sex.” I would have thoughts that the prostitutes, as ambitious business-persons, would have been soliciting sex. Were the prostitutes charged with any crimes? If not, why not?
Probably because they were human trafficked in to slavery?
“Mr. Bompartito, who moved to South Florida from Philadelphia seven months ago, said that around the time of the purported bomb scare, he saw young women leave the massage parlor around lunchtime every day and walk around the mall, without talking to anyone or eating anything.”
Hold onto yo slave hos by letting them walk free every lunch.
If it’s true, Kraft is a lot less resourceful than Eliot Spitzer, who at least (allegedly) had the sense to pack his $5g/night Russian hooker into a suitcase and lug her into his own home when his wife wasn’t around instead of visiting a Massage Parlor.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/eliot-spitzer-sneaked-his-5g-a-night-russian-escort-into-his-home-in-suitcase-she-claims
You’d think a billionaire would happily spend more to hire a vogue-model-caliber masseuse in a discrete luxury hotel room. But nope, he cheaped out on a $75 massage in a strip mall from women who really appear to be in sad shape. Maybe a bout of Trump Derangement Syndrome has caused temporary insanity?
Gee wil a kers, what a cheap sake, really a hoe n a strip mall, well at least it’s a woman; u’ll get my attention when it’s sumthing other than a natural behavior next time mayb he’ll spend sum of them Jackson’s
Plainly this is Donald Trump’s fault, somehow, but if the accusation is “human trafficking” could it be that Trump’s proposed tightening of undocumented immigration would actually reduce the number of brothels next to Outbacks?
Perhaps the number of brothels would be the same, just with fewer prostitutes per brothel. The article doesn’t indicate that the women are undocumented immigrants. However, the name of business indicates that the women are of Asian background. If they’re immigrants, a wall along the Mexican border would not have stopped any of them from entering the country.
Let’s trot out “and would not have prevented “. In this case border wall. In the case of depraved mass shooting it’s stricter gun laws. Somehow stating that provides justification for not enacting the policy the author opposes. Guess what: enacting a particular policy/law won’t end all instances of behaviors it is designed to stop. It doesn’t mean that enacting the policy/law is not worthwhile.
Hookers go right over the wall by attaching their hooks to the top.
Jdhzzz, perhaps what Vince is implying is that money spent on a wall may not be the best use of funds to address a real immigration issue. Trafficking of women is a real issue, adding barriers at the Southern border won’t do much to reduce that problem.
If only those women were allowed to self-identify as men, the problem would’ve been solved. But Trump, who is a modern equivalent of a slave owner, has denied them American liberties and American values; therefore it’s Trump’s fault.
Young women are having sex with rich older men? Stop the presses!
M & Peter P.
From the NYTimes as quoted by Philip:
“Robert K. Kraft, the billionaire owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, was charged Friday with two counts of soliciting sex”
From Wikipedia:
“In the United States, solicitation is the name of a crime, an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solicitation
So the situation is as you might expect, Kraft was accused of offering money to someone to commit the crime of prostitution.
Confusingly, in other jurisdictions the roles may be reversed:
“In England and Wales, the term soliciting is usually “for a person (whether male or female) persistently to loiter or solicit in a street or public place for the purpose of prostitution” – from the same Wikipedia article.