Norristown-Area Prostitution Sentencings Begin Tuesday

Suspects in the Norristown-area prostitution ring charged in September of 2014 will be sentenced on Tuesday and on Friday, the Criminal Investigations unit of the IRS said.

Khasim Stephenson, the alleged ringleader of the prostitution enterprise, will be sentenced Friday, while Kristina Schlueter, one of the prostitutes that helped him organize the business, will be sentenced Tuesday, the IRS said.

Stephenson controlled and operated the ring from Orlando, Florida, recruiting prostitutes and sending them to the King of Prussia Best Western, on 127 S. Gulph Road, among numerous other locations around the country, to provide sexual services to male customers for a fee, according to the IRS.

Court documents detailing law enforcement surveillance of Stephenson and other prostitutes reveal how Stephenson would frequently pressure his workers to increase their earnings.

“Get your money up (expletive),” Stephenson said to a prostitute identified as ”T.J.” on one occasion.

“I’m tryna stack that bank account,” Schlueter told Stephenson after she made a $700 deposit.

Stephenson also ordered other prostitutes, named “B.O.” and “N.E.W.” in court documents, to get t-shirts made with a zoomed-in image of Stephenson on the front, and the saying “chose up (expletive) or self destruct, the greatest of all pimps” written on the back.

Stephenson also wanted the shirts to contain his telephone number, per the documents.

The crew of prostitutes, which also included “J.L.W.”, J.A.”, and T.N.” lived in the Gulph Road Best Western for several weeks at a time while working on an on-call basis, per the IRS.

Stephenson had a slew of nicknames or psuedonyms, including “Christopher Brown,” “Daddy,” and “Sincere,” the IRS said.

It is not known where the nicknames came from.

Stephenson required all prostitutes to deposit their earnings - $150 per half hour and $250 per hour - into one of his several bank accounts.

Schlueter helped “Sincere” to control the cash receipts form the enterprise, the IRS said.

The ring was advertised via word-of-mouth and internet sites like Craigslist and Backpage, according to the IRS.

The defendants both pleaded guilty in March, according to court documents.