Some alleged brothel 'Johns' skip cambridge court hearing, probably still found

The alleged “Johns” brothel, which has issued up to 600 US dollars per hour for prostitutes, now enter a court in Cambridge. Many refuse to appear and names are read aloud, but not written in a chaotic scene.

However, the criminal charges will continue against the first six suspected sex buyers of brothels who work in Watertown and Cambridge.

Sharon Casey, court clerk of the district court in Cambridge, found the likely reason for the first six men called in court. Only two of the previously mentioned hearing mentioned so far, which began at 10 a.m. at the Cambridge youth court, although it was not dispensed with. Casey said she found those who did not appear in delay.

The Herald tries to confirm the accused mentioned in court.

The accused's lawyers have long fought to keep all criminal proceedings privately, but the Supreme Court of Massachusetts finally ordered the public hearings. At the hearing on Friday, some lawyers continued the fight, as the second defendant called.

“Before I say something and say the Supreme Court with great respect, my client is still against this public hearing and asks that they rethink it again,” said lawyer Howard Cooper on behalf of his client who was the second.

“Ok,” said Casey. “That is rejected.”

Court documents for the cases continued will be available on Monday before the district court in Cambridge, said Casey. The men are said to have paid up to 600 US dollars per hour for prostitutes – some that they have applied for by name according to court proceedings.

The scene in front of the square, the youth court in Cambridge, is full of demonstrators and the media, all of which have been delayed for months.

There is a live broadcast in court proceedings that someone kept outside the court on a cell phone. One of the alleged “Johns” that appeared today was followed by demonstrators along the street that shouted at him.

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It is time for the public to find out who at least some of the alleged customers of Greater Boston Bordels, when the first of three hearing groups takes place at the Cambridge District Court today.

At the end of January, the clerk's office published a message that the show cause will take place on three consecutive Fridays in March, with the first being today. No information was provided in the announcement, so the courtroom will be the first place where the public experiences of its identity. The hearing takes place at 10 a.m. in the youth court in Cambridge

“No continuations are granted without exceptional circumstances,” says the hearing regulation.

On November 8, 2023, the US lawyer of the Massachusett district announced the arrest of three people

The leader or Madame of the Operation, Han “Hanna” Lee from Cambridge, gave himself guilty last September and her supply boy and “Booker” Junmyung Lee from Dedham followed next month. The third operator, James Lee from Torrance, California, owed his role in his role in the operation at the end of the last month. The public prosecutor said he had secured a number of false identities to rent the apartments in which the gender took place.

The trio, which is not related, according to the prosecutors, was arrested in November 2023 and charged with a federal jury in the federal jury in the following February.

However, the customers of illegal trade have never been identified.

According to the public prosecutors, customers were submitted “elected civil servants, high -tech and pharmaceutical managers, doctors, military officers, government companies with security checks, professors, lawyers and others” and an investigator of the homeland applications for 28 suspected Johns in December.

“Select a profession, you are probably represented in this case,” said the then American lawyer Joshua Levy in November 2023 when he announced the case. “You are the men who have fueled this commercial sex ring.”

The alleged customers fought hard to keep their charges privately, but in the end the Supreme Court of Massachusetts decided in November that the hearing of the show cause would be public.

The court found that the “employee magistrate within the framework of its discretion” acted appropriately and within the scope of her discretion area when she decided to grant public access to the hearings. That the US law firm publicly made it public that the defendants were powerful, “legitimate public concerns about potential preference and bias when such hearings have been held behind closed doors, and that these concerns outweighed the interests of continued anonymity for the seizures.”

This is a developing story.

Originally published: March 14, 2025 at 8:28 a.m. Edt