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Ridgewood NJ, an undercover operation by Rochelle Park Police detectives has resulted in prostitution charges against the owner of a massage salon in the township and two employees. The operation was initiated based on a tip from a concerned citizen. Here are the key details:
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Ramsey NJ, according to Ramsey Police , officers found Donna Olsen, 35, and Carlo Maltempti, 48, at an Extended Stay America hotel just off Route 17, while responding to a welfare check request. A preliminary investigation led to the arrests of the two occupants in the hotel room.
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Fair Lawn NJ , on Thursday February 10th at 3:16 pm the Fair Lawn Police Detective Bureau, after receiving information of illicit activity, sent an undercover officer into CW Body Works Therapy, 7-09 Fair Lawn Avenue, and arrested Qiufeng Wang, age 57 of Fair Lawn, after she offered the officer a sexual act. She was released after being charged with prostitution.
Continue reading No Happy Ending : Fair Lawn Police Make Prostitution Arrest at Message Therapy Spa
Raid of Rentboy, an Escort Website, Angers Gay Activists
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORDAUG. 26, 2015
For some gay activists, it had shades of bathhouse raids and gay-bar roundups from decades ago. On Tuesday, federal authorities burst into the Union Square office of the gay-escort website Rentboy.com and arrested the chief executive and several employees on prostitution charges.
Rentboy, which federal authorities called the biggest male-escort website, had been around for almost two decades, allowing escorts to pay to advertise themselves. It was well known in the gay community, hosting pool parties, dances and awards shows throughout the country.
After federal authorities charged its top executives with promoting prostitution, seized the website and went after the business’s assets on Tuesday, many gay activists were infuriated. The Transgender Law Center, a civil-rights group, criticized the arrests, as did some male sex workers. Several activists said they would use the episode to renew calls to decriminalize prostitution.
“To many in our community this feels like a throwback to when the police raided gay bars in the ’50s and ’60s,” Justin Vivian Bond, a performer and an activist who is transgender, wrote in an email. “This invasion of a consensual hookup site which is run for and by members of the L.G.B.T. community feels like a real slap in the face after gentrification and the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations drove so many gay bars out of business and forced people to meet online instead of in person,” the activist added, referring to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Danny Cruz said he had posted ads on Rentboy “to supplement income” for about seven years, starting when he moved to New York. He said he had talked regularly to the executives who were arrested, both about his business and about staying safe.
“I don’t see why the government would be interested in what two people do behind closed doors,” Mr. Cruz, who is now involved in the Sex Workers Outreach Project in Los Angeles, said.
Ashley Rae Goldenberg
After Macy’s announced the company will be joining NBCand severing ties with presidential candidate Donald Trump, Trump has responded by issuing a statement declaring, “Clearly, NBC and Macy’s support illegal immigration.”
In his statement, Trump writes,
“Clearly, NBC and Macy’s support illegal immigration, which is totally detrimental to the fabric of our once great country. Both Macy’s and NBC totally caved at the first sight of potential difficulty with special interest groups who are nothing more than professional agitators, who are not looking out for the people they purport to represent, but only for themselves. It is people like this that are actually running our country because our leaders are weak and ineffective.”
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/trump-nbc-macys-support-illegal-immigration#.m8wpb1:RxEQ
