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Federal authorities say they’ve busted a global underground immigration ring, and at the center of the scheme — strip clubs across Manhattan.
They said the club — Cheetah’s — is one of several at the center of an underground immigration ring that stretches from Times Square to the heart of Russia.
Immigration And Customs Enforcement Agents Announce 'Operation Dancing Brides,' Break Up Alleged Mafia-Run Scheme To Import Foreign Women To Work In Strip Clubs
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“Today’s arrests bring to an end a long-standing criminal enterprise operated by colluding organized crime entities that profited wildly through a combination of extortion and fraud,” ICE HSI Special Agent-in-Charge James T. Hayes, Jr. told 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa. “As alleged, the defendants controlled their business and protected their turf through intimidation and threats of physical and economic harm. Today, that business model has been extinguished.”
1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa with the details of the 10-year operation
Investigators said Russian and Italian mobsters were working together in the elaborate scheme to bring Russian and Eastern European women into the United States and funnel them to strip clubs to work as exotic dancers.
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#1 - Fri Dec 2, 2011 12:02 AM ESTIt looks like the headline should be different, something like kidnapped.
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#2 - Fri Dec 2, 2011 12:09 AM ESTIt looks like the headline should be different, something like kidnapped.
I usually use the headline from the original article-- but I'm open to suggestions for a change in headline.
Suggestions, anyone?
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I agree with the headline being changed, and here is a good example of why. I'd like to offer additional news articles that also are related to human trafficking http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/somaly-mam-sex-trafficking-slavery-hiv-aids-cambodia_n_1119460.html
So I just wanted to add another incident which had been reported this week.
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