Posted on 05/24/2020 12:32:20 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
The women were forced to live and work in filth and near darkness, the federal agent said, surviving on only the tips they received from performing massages and sexual favors.
Lon Weigand, deputy special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Arizona, described them as “Asian females” who may be sex-trafficking victims. He praised the joint operation between federal agents and local police in western Arizona that led to their rescue and credited “investigative techniques” with helping to crack a “transnational criminal organization.”
What Weigand didn’t say at that September 2018 press conference – although HSI documents show some supervisors knew – was that federal undercover agents repeatedly paid for and engaged in sex acts with suspected victims.
That fact, coupled with HSI’s refusal to let its agents testify, caused the collapse of a case that was more than three years in the making. All felony charges against the alleged ringleaders were dropped. And sex-trafficking experts said the women were likely re-traumatized.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
“Detectives were informed by HSI that the undercover sexual activity was authorized,” said Emily Fromelt, a Bullhead police spokeswoman.
It is illegal in Arizona, as in other states, for police to engage in sexual activity with subjects of an investigation.
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Homeland Security Investigations...HSI...
I don't think many people have heard of this agency before...
OK, HSI agents will have sex with Asian massage ladies...
What should they tell their wives?
James Bond did get into a hot tub with a KGB agent to get some information...A VIEW TO A KILL...
Were these people repatriated to their home countries?
My cousin was married to a DEA agent. He worked undercover. He did drugs, had sex with people during the course of investigations. She finally divorced him.
Are you kidding?
The federal agents were getting too much sex from these women to deport them.
>> re-traumatized
Good point.
The FIB seems to have a thing for the Rolling Stones. So, I guess it was OK to have a gas gas gas.
“It was strictly business, not personal”.
Now there’s commitment.
“It was strictly business, not personal”.
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I think that’s a good explanation...When the HSI agents have to speak to their wives...
I’m single. Where can I apply?
>> She finally divorced him.
I’m reminded of an off-duty undercover agent from 40 years ago. It was the intrigue of the job that gave purpose. Scrappy and fearless. I admired his independence, but knew his road to normalcy was also out of reach.
Depends on if their wives were born yesterday. :)
Most wives will clobber ya if you came up with an explanation like that for sleeping with another woman.
Bullshit! He was a thug with a badge.
He was 19 YO, and I don’t recall you being there.
Completely off topic but I remember watching the shield and the police leader said that Vic Mackey was Al Capone with a badge
It was a great show.
The 99%?
The agents will probably claim they were “taking one for the team” by helping the girls out. /s
I thought it was a great show, until they brought in the Albanian mafia and the Great Train Robbery.
Michael Chiklis showed up on Sons of Anarchy as a trucker that dropped hints that he might have been Vince Mackey. The trucker ended up driving through a railway crossing just as a train was coming.
It sounded like the producers wanted to give his story an ending.
Wow
Yeah I didn’t like that angle either but there actually is an Armenian mob and they are ruthless. Who knew? :-)
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