Posted on 05/13/2025 1:09:48 PM PDT by algore
Authorities in Edison say they executed the township’s largest asset seizure to date during a raid Thursday at a massage parlor suspected of prostitution and money laundering, recovering more than $750,000 — including $600,000 in cash sewn inside a giant teddy bear.
The yearlong undercover investigation led by the Edison Police Department’s Vice Unit targeted Bliss Spa on Woodbridge Avenue and the Edison home of its manager, 47-year-old Daniela Diienno.
Police said they recovered $650,000 in cash — most of it concealed inside the stuffed animal — as well as a 2025 Tesla Model Y, a Rolex and a Cartier watch.
Additional funds were seized from Diienno’s bank accounts, bringing the total haul to $754,373, according to Edison Police Chief Thomas Bryan.
Diienno was charged with first-degree money laundering, second-degree promoting organized street crime, third-degree promoting prostitution and fourth-degree maintaining a house of prostitution.
She was held at the Middlesex County Jail pending a detention hearing.
Attorney information for Diienno was not listed in court records.
Four other women — ages 26 to 45 from New Jersey and New York — were each charged with engaging in or soliciting prostitution and released on summonses.
Bliss Spa was hit with multiple health code violations and had its business license suspended, officials said.
“The amount of cash seized and the elaborate concealment methods used show just how sophisticated and profitable these illegal operations can be.”
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Must have been a really horny she bear to have collected that much money.
Must have taken a lot of Happy Endings to make that much.
Happens every time!
Remember that episode of Married with Children?
Al Bundy to Chicago cops: I guess you’ll have to take the money as evidence right?
Chicago cops: What money?
Al Bundy: Of course, silly me.
This thread is useless without pics.
I mean, it's not like gambling or liquor or even women which is something that most people want nowadays and is forbidden to them by the pezzonovante of the church.
Don Corleone.
A plot right out of “The Night of the Hunter.”
See post #6 lol
i miss that show...
I’ll bet there was a lot more than $750,000 found.
You wants pics? Ok, here ya go.
$600,000 in cash
Edison police chief wants a new Rolex
Robert menendes?
Hawaii 5-0 had a better idea with a bear stuffed with narcotics.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0598077/
Just lucky I guess.
A favorite of mine.
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