Cambridge Brothel: Man To Plead Guilty To Running Prostitute Ring

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A Watertown man and a Georgia woman agreed to plead guilty to pimping women from Cambridge to Virginia to Georgia in a long-running interstate prostitution ring, the Department of Justice announced Friday.

Jineok Kim, 38, of Watertown, Mass., and Susan Bashir, also known as “Susan Redmon,” or “Susan Redmond,” 41, of Stone Mountain, GA., agreed to plead guilty Friday to one count of conspiracy to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce individuals to travel in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution and one count of conspiracy to engage in money laundering.

If convicted, the two face up to 5 years in prison and three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine for the interstate prostitution charge. But they could face up to 20 years in prison, three years supervised release and then a fine of $500,000 for the money laundering charge.

On March 15, Kim and Bashir were charged and arrested along with Yoon I. Kim, 36, of Haymarket, Va.; Taehee Kim, who also goes by the name “Hyunsook Kim,” 46, of Haymarket, VA.; and Kyung Song, 52, of Lexington.

According to the court documents filed Friday, Kim participated in an interstate prostitution network from spring 2016 to December 2017, and Bashir worked for the prostitution network from at least 2013 until March 2018. The prostitution network had multiple brothels in high-end apartments in Cambridge; Atlanta, Ga.; and eastern Virginia.

They advertised appointments with Asian women primarily on three websites: www.bostonasiandolls.com, www.exoticasiansatlanta.com, and www.redhotflowers69.com. The women advertised on the websites were moved from city to city within the network, working as prostitutes for the organization.

Bashir’s role involved screening potential clients that called to book an appointment and then arranging logistics for the client to meet with one the advertised women.

Bashir also updated the prostitution websites and calculated the payments for each prostitute based on the number of clients she had met with. In addition, Bashir collected the cash earnings from the women working at the Georgia brothels and made bulk deposits at ATMs, funneling the money into accounts allegedly controlled by Taehee Kim and Yoon Kim.

Jineok Kim transported women working as prostitutes and supplies, including bulk orders of condoms, to and from brothel locations in Cambridge. Jineok Kim got cash proceeds from each of the Cambridge brothel locations and allegedly laundered the proceeds according to Taehee Kim’s instructions, which including depositing the money into accounts belonging to Taehee Kim or sending postal money orders to Taehee Kim.

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