10 Defendants Indicted For Operating A Prostitution Racketeering Enterprise Involving Approximately 40 Bay Area Brothels (United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California)

(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 23, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco has indicted 10 defendants for their alleged role in a far-reaching prostitution racketeering enterprise that recruited Asian women to work as prostitutes in approximately 40 brothels located throughout the Bay Area, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Tatum King, Acting Special Agent in Charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Francisco, and Police Chief Susan Manheimer of the San Mateo Police Department. The defendants - Allen Fong, Ya Huai Hung,...