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Cops find $600K stashed in teddy bear during massage parlor raid in N.J. town
nj.com ^

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


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must have been a really big teddy bear.
1 posted on 05/13/2025 1:09:48 PM PDT by algore
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Must have been a really horny she bear to have collected that much money.


2 posted on 05/13/2025 1:11:23 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: algore

Must have taken a lot of Happy Endings to make that much.


3 posted on 05/13/2025 1:11:39 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: algore

Happens every time!


4 posted on 05/13/2025 1:11:42 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: algore

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.


5 posted on 05/13/2025 1:13:58 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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6 posted on 05/13/2025 1:14:42 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: algore

This thread is useless without pics.


7 posted on 05/13/2025 1:14:49 PM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you disarmed because they intend on doing things you would shoot them for.)
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8 posted on 05/13/2025 1:16:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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When did I ever refuse, except one time? And why? Because I believe this drug business is going to destroy us in the years to come.

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.

9 posted on 05/13/2025 1:16:54 PM PDT by PGR88
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A plot right out of “The Night of the Hunter.”


10 posted on 05/13/2025 1:17:01 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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See post #6 lol


11 posted on 05/13/2025 1:17:39 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: Larry Lucido

i miss that show...


12 posted on 05/13/2025 1:19:49 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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LOL 4 star reviews from many men

https://reviews.birdeye.com/bliss-170076346203666


13 posted on 05/13/2025 1:21:35 PM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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I’ll bet there was a lot more than $750,000 found.


14 posted on 05/13/2025 1:24:15 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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This thread is useless without pics.

You wants pics? Ok, here ya go.

600,000 dollars picture

$600,000 in cash

15 posted on 05/13/2025 1:25:32 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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Edison police chief wants a new Rolex


16 posted on 05/13/2025 1:28:52 PM PDT by Swanks
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To: algore

Robert menendes?


17 posted on 05/13/2025 1:32:17 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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a Rolex and a Cartier?
18 posted on 05/13/2025 1:34:52 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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It was a million, but, you know, some of it, accidentally, fell in to somebodies pockets, before the count.
19 posted on 05/13/2025 1:35:18 PM PDT by Ez2BRepub (Democrats Suck)
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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.


20 posted on 05/13/2025 1:36:54 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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