Category Archive for : ‘Interstate Prostitution Ring’

MSN
By Jerry Barmash
11/13/24

Baldwin Man Found Guilty of Running Sex Trafficking Ring: Feds

A federal jury convicted a Baldwin man on Tuesday of sex trafficking by force and two counts of interstate prostitution, prosecutors announced.

Michail McKen, 36, ran a sex trafficking business in Nassau and Suffolk counties, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said.

The verdict came after a six-day trial.

“The defendant stands convicted today of luring vulnerable women into his web of deceit and coercing them to have commercial sex with men all over the country, including on Long Island,” Peace said. “He falsely

USA Today (Contributing: Reuters)
By N’dea Yancey-Bragg, Mark Williams, Hannah Phillips, and Julius Whigham II
October 22, 2024

Ex Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries, 2 Others Charged with Sex Trafficking Male Models

Michael Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, was arrested and is being charged with two others in the operation of a secretive, international sex trafficking scheme that lasted for years, cost millions of dollars and involved dozens of victims, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Jeffries, who served as CEO of the clothing company from 1992 to 2014, and Matthew Smith, 61, of West Palm Beach and James Jacobson, 71, of