Posted on 04/05/2019 7:24:43 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
Kraft's attorneys allege that Jupiter police had enough evidence to close down Orchids of Asia long before they installed the video cameras. That evidence, they said, included statements by officers in a search warrant request that they had seen only men enter the spa, had seen online statements from customers that the spa's female employees accepted money for sex, had found evidence of sexual activity in the spa's trash bin and had gotten confessions from men leaving the spa.
But instead of closing the spa, the officers sent a health inspector to spy on the business, the lawyers said. They said that her report gave scant evidence of possible human trafficking, but the officers' request for a search warrant stated she had found ample evidence. The lawyers say investigators used that to persuade the judge that secret video was justified.
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from what I read here it sounds like the police just wanted to watch - for personal reasons more so then professional since they had plenty of evidence already and lied to the judge to get camera installed.
With a warrant - yes.
My guess the police and higher ups wanted the big media splash arresting celebrity clients would bring. So they waited.
And not to mention Jupiter Island.
It seems like a very interesting legal challenge to me. Even if the police installed the cameras illegally, does Kraft have any legal grounds to challenge it if he wasn’t the owner of the business establishment?
Not a Pats fan, but to me, this is a pretty transparent set-up! Now if Tom Brady was the one that was set-up, then it would be ok ;-)
I don’t care what a 77-year old widower does for fun., wheter it was an entrapment setup in advance particularly aimed at him, or he just walked into it.
But, I am surprised that a multi-billionaire (Forbes rates him at $6.5 Bn) would go to such a low-rate venue for his fun. Maybe he was slumming it; maybe some of his friends recommended it as a fun down-market dive experience. It was reported that other surprisingly wealthy clients were there. It’s not as if he can’t afford to support a girlfriend—I read that he has been “dating” a 39-year old actress.
Maybe he did it for the same reason Charlie Sheen did - he wasn't paying for the sex, but for her to go away after sex.
Given last weekends Mara Lago incident, I think Kraft got swept in a Cointel operation.
Fifty bucks for starting, fifty for stopping?
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