It can be nice to go into business with your family. But, uh, not like this:
A Florida man and his mother jointly ran a sprawling prostitution ring for nearly a quarter-century, washing hundreds of thousands of dollars via various front companies and real estate purchases, according to police, who nabbed the pair as they allegedly prepared to flee the country. ...
Many of the escorts working for the mother-son team were registered as real estate agents and had valid real estate licenses, the 103-page affidavit contends.
So if you've ever been signing a real estate contract in Florida and you just felt like something was, I don't know, weird about the situation ...
... now you know why!
Meanwhile, it sounds like this mother-son duo has been engaged in shady practices for some time:
The mother-son duo [Margareta von Lambert and Christopher Jelavic] went into business in 2000, and have been targeted by investigators multiple times in the past, but have never been prosecuted until now, according to the affidavit. Their primary company, Pretty Woman Escorts, offered Latin American and European women for $300-$400 an hour, the affidavit states.
Police performed a "trash pull" at one of prostitution ring's dispatch locations and "turned up a list of customers' names and contacts, along with the services they booked."
Jelavic, meanwhile, was at one point observed by police "lugging a heavy duffel bag they believe was loaded with cash."
The two will be arraigned on October 2.
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