Posted on 09/12/2009 8:11:51 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
A Brownsville man, who called himself Don Juan, and his girlfriend have pleaded guilty to smuggling undocumented immigrants into the United States to prostitute them.
Juan Luis Coronado, 37, aka Juan Hernandez, and Lee Ann Zieger, aka as Lee Ann Motilla, 40, entered the guilty pleas Wednesday, the same day their trial was scheduled to begin.
Coronado pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to import a minor for prostitution purposes.
Zieger, also of Brownsville, pleaded guilty to two counts of harboring aliens for prostitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. The two will be sentenced Dec. 8.
Coronado remained in federal custody without bond. Zieger remained out of jail on a $75,000 bond pending sentencing.
The April arrests of Coronado and Zieger were the result of a seven-month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation in which special agents monitored the couple.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Coronado admitted to asking a prostitute who was working for him to smuggle a 14-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico to work for him as a prostitute. He made the request in October.
Coronado also admitted to smuggling and managing two other undocumented immigrants who worked as prostitutes, federal authorities said.
The women who worked as prostitutes were housed at a hotel in Brownsville, where Zieger worked as a manager, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office.
Angela Dodge, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, confirmed that the hotel is the Value Place hotel on Media Luna Road.
Authorities also said that Zieger allowed a room at the hotel to be used for prostitution purposes by giving Coronado a room key labeled "property manager,"
Dodge confirmed that Coronado and Zieger also took women to the South Padre Island to be prostituted at the annual SPI Bikefest held in October.
Zieger admitted to furnishing Coronado with the room, which she knew was being used to prostitute the undocumented immigrants and to picking up the prostitutes after they crossed the border from Mexico, federal authorities said.
Zieger and Coronado each face up to 10 years in federal prison and fines of up to $250,000 each, followed by three years of supervised release.
High end call girls?
Maybe not.
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They should have gone to ACORN for help, they would have gotten their victims in safely, avoided taxes legally and probably have forged American birth certificates also. NOT kidding.
You're pretty close to the reason, actually that is one of the reasons. Think about it, you have a class of people who have never actually been free, you bring them here illegally, and you exploit them. Think collective farms with illegals(thinking they are now legal)as laborers! Oh, wait, you say that happens now only the farms aren't collectives?
The point is the liberals are the modern slave owners. Beck even pointed that the other day, they use blacks for organizations like ACORN but who are the people running it? White liberals.
Liberals vilify the whites but the white liberals plan on being in control once communism has a firm grasp on the country. I wouldn't be in Bozo's shoes for any amount of money.
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