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Six massage therapists face charges of fraud after Bellevue police say that they gave false information on applications to obtain massage therapist practitioner licenses.
Six therapists to date have been arrested, though the investigation continues and more arrests could be forthcoming, said Bellevue police spokeswoman Office Carla Iafrate. The locations of the massage parlors involved were not immediately available.
According to a press release from the Bellevue Police Department, an investigation identified the therapists has having used suspected counterfeit Chinese school and licensing credentials when applying to the Washington State Department of Health for a license to practice massage therapy.
The investigation began last September when the police department’s vice division received information about the suspected fraudulent licenses from the Department of Health and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, according to a press release.

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Six massage therapists face charges of fraud after Bellevue police say that they gave false information on applications to obtain massage therapist practitioner licenses.
Six therapists to date have been arrested, though the investigation continues and more arrests could be forthcoming, said Bellevue police spokeswoman Office Carla Iafrate. The locations of the massage parlors involved were not immediately available.
According to a press release from the Bellevue Police Department, an investigation identified the therapists has having used suspected counterfeit Chinese school and licensing credentials when applying to the Washington State Department of Health for a license to practice massage therapy.
The investigation began last September when the police department’s vice division received information about the suspected fraudulent licenses from the Department of Health and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, according to a press release.

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Your local purveyor of Backpage.com advertisements is Seattle Weekly, due to its ownership by Village Voice Media, which in turn owns Backpage.com. I was impressed to see that VVM managed to score a helpful counterpoint from the New York Times‘ David Carr, himself a former alt-weekly scrivener.
Carr quotes Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna (and gubernatorial hopeful) saying:
I think we have to be careful to protect the First Amendment rights of publishers, but free speech does not extend to the knowing facilitation of criminal activity. This is not just about children being prostituted, this is about human beings being trafficked into the sex trades, as adults and as children.
Somehow, Carr manages to equate juvenile prostitution with the time “we were under fire for publishing ads for strip clubs, escort services and massage parlors.” He even works in this hoary why-bother: “If Backpage.com retreats — not likely given the predispositions of its owners — some other alternative will immediately take its place.”

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… This is political pandering at its finest,” Suskin said.
Bruce Johnson, an attorney who is a leading scholar on the First Amendment and advertising, said the bill appears to run afoul of federal law.
The Communications Decency Act “severely hamstrings state regulation in this area,” Johnson said, adding that the bill may also be at odds with the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause and the First Amendment.
Backpage.com has been the nation’s leading source of online sex escort ads since Craigslist.org shuttered its adult services section in September 2010.
Other sex-trafficking bills introduced Monday would strengthen rules against pimping out those with mental disabilities, permit the state to inspect foot massage parlors suspected as fronts for prostitution and make it easier to seize the assets of those with ties to sex trafficking in civil court.

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… This is political pandering at its finest,” Suskin said.
Bruce Johnson, an attorney who is a leading scholar on the First Amendment and advertising, said the bill appears to run afoul of federal law.
The Communications Decency Act “severely hamstrings state regulation in this area,” Johnson said, adding that the bill may also be at odds with the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause and the First Amendment.
Backpage.com has been the nation’s leading source of online sex escort ads since Craigslist.org shuttered its adult services section in September 2010.
Other sex-trafficking bills introduced Monday would strengthen rules against pimping out those with mental disabilities, permit the state to inspect foot massage parlors suspected as fronts for prostitution and make it easier to seize the assets of those with ties to sex trafficking in civil court.

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… This is political pandering at its finest,” Suskin said.
Bruce Johnson, an attorney who is a leading scholar on the First Amendment and advertising, said the bill appears to run afoul of federal law.
The Communications Decency Act “severely hamstrings state regulation in this area,” Johnson said, adding that the bill may also be at odds with the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause and the First Amendment.
Backpage.com has been the nation’s leading source of online sex escort ads since Craigslist.org shuttered its adult services section in September 2010.
Other sex-trafficking bills introduced Monday would strengthen rules against pimping out those with mental disabilities, permit the state to inspect foot massage parlors suspected as fronts for prostitution and make it easier to seize the assets of those with ties to sex trafficking in civil court.

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… This is political pandering at its finest,” Suskin said.
Bruce Johnson, an attorney who is a leading scholar on the First Amendment and advertising, said the bill appears to run afoul of federal law.
The Communications Decency Act “severely hamstrings state regulation in this area,” Johnson said, adding that the bill may also be at odds with the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause and the First Amendment.
Backpage.com has been the nation’s leading source of online sex escort ads since Craigslist.org shuttered its adult services section in September 2010.
Other sex-trafficking bills introduced Monday would strengthen rules against pimping out those with mental disabilities, permit the state to inspect foot massage parlors suspected as fronts for prostitution and make it easier to seize the assets of those with ties to sex trafficking in civil court.

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Seattle police, Department of Homeland Security officials, and the Port of Seattle are investigating several Seattle-area “foot massage” parlors for connections to possible human trafficking, according to SPD records released Thursday.
In June undercover detectives from SPD’s vice/high-risk victims began making visits to four massage parlors, focusing mostly on a business in the Greenwood neighborhood in north Seattle.
Women at the businesses apparently didn’t speak much English, but offered officers “happy endings” and sex through pantomime, according to a police search warrant affidavit. On one visit, one of the female employees at the business gave a detective a 15 minute butt massage, the warrant says.
SPD eventually sent in an undercover female detective to ask about a job at the Greenwood business, but a man who police say runs the massage parlor told her he only hired women who spoke Mandarin Chinese.

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A massage therapist from Mercer Island has had her license suspended for entering a sexual relationship with the client and provided other clients with “full-body massage” — which included sexual contact — for a fee.
The state Department of Health’s Medical Quality Assurance Commission last month suspended Denise S. Su’s license, based on allegations of unprofessional conduct and sexual misconduct made by the state. If found guilty, she could permanently lose her license.
The statement of charges (attached here in a PDF file) against Su, 34, alleges that sometime between 2007 and 2008, she engaged in sexual contact with an unnamed client at an unidentified location. Shortly after, she began a romantic and/or sexual relationship with the client, which lasted for about a year ending in late 2008. The charges also claim that between 2008 and 2011, she provided other clients with a “full body sensual massage” that included masturbation with sexual release for a fee. 

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Seattle police raided a North Seattle massage parlor earlier this month and arrested one man for promoting prostitution.
Police records say vice detectives began investigating the spa on 102nd and Lake City Way NE. in June. Police made several visits to the business where, police records say, one women offered to give an undercover detective a handjob for $60.  Police also say the woman told the detective she “would have sex with me somewhere else when she got off work,” and gave the detective her phone number.
Detectives continued visiting the Lake City business between June and October, and employees continued to offer officers handjobs for $40-60, police records say. At least one woman working at the spa “did not appear to speak any English.”
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The 46-year-old man behind the ads, police records say, had also posted ads for a massage parlor in Kent.

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