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To our dismay, the Motown Museum is closed on Sundays, but dinner was waiting for us at Asim’s house in Ferndale: daal, brown rice and salad. Asim = Awesome. He fed us several times, housed us, made tea for us, set up the show and became my new favorite person. The show was at a place called The Loving Touch, which used to be a massage parlor and still has the original (suggestive?) flashing signs above the stage area (which I’m told usually houses a foosball table). It also has a green corner with a glass ceiling and wall plants. There are about ten pool tables and a bar with half-price drinks for bands that amounted to next to nothing compared to D.C. prices. We drank many WAB Raspberry Blonde ales that are brewed on that same block.

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Posted: 10:28 p.m. Sunday, April 1, 2012
Orlando gives free money to small city businesses
ORLANDO, Fla. —
WFTV found out the city of Orlando gives out tens-of-thousands of dollars in free money each year, to pay for makeovers for small businesses.
The city of Orlando footed the bill to spruce up a massage parlor in College Park which took a little more than $4,000 in taxpayer money for the owner to do repairs, paint and plant new shrubs.
“It made me happy that it matters to the city that small businesses are happy,” business owner Lu Mueller said.
The city dished out around $7,000 in free money to a bar-b-que restaurant. 
WFTV wanted to know why the city offers the free help.
“Would the city describe this as free money?  Absolutely not.  Every single program that we have is either distributed in a form or reimbursement or paid after jobs are created,” Orlando city employee Kathy DeVault said.

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Final defendant in Russian sex-trafficking ring sentenced to time served
The final co-defendant in a Russian sex-trafficking case was sentenced Monday in Orlando federal court, and a judge ruled she will serve no additional time behind bars.
Saida Babaeva is one of six people convicted in December for their roles in the sex-trafficking ring, which prosecutors said operated out of so-called massage parlors in Central Florida, Tampa, Boston, Cincinnati and Atlanta.
She was convicted of three counts and faced up to six months in prison. U.S. District Judge John Antoon II sentenced her to time served.
The 29-year-old is from Izeberbash, Russia, and is college-educated. Details about the hardships she endured as a child have been detailed in court documents.
Those records say Babaeva’s father worked for the government, and was fatally shot in a revenge killing when she was 11 years old.

See the full article from “Orlando Sentinel”

Final defendant in Russian sex-trafficking ring sentenced to time served
The final co-defendant in a Russian sex-trafficking case was sentenced Monday in Orlando federal court, and a judge ruled she will serve no additional time behind bars.
Saida Babaeva is one of six people convicted in December for their roles in the sex-trafficking ring, which prosecutors said operated out of so-called massage parlors in Central Florida, Tampa, Boston, Cincinnati and Atlanta.
She was convicted of three counts and faced up to six months in prison. U.S. District Judge John Antoon II sentenced her to time served.
The 29-year-old is from Izeberbash, Russia, and is college-educated. Details about the hardships she endured as a child have been detailed in court documents.
Those records say Babaeva’s father worked for the government, and was fatally shot in a revenge killing when she was 11 years old.

See the full article from “Sun-Sentinel”

Officials said six were convicted on various federal charges including conspiracy, traveling in interstate and foreign commerce to promote a prostitution business and using facilities of interstate commerce to promote a prostitution business. The other five were acquitted.
Prosecutors said the women came to America to work as prostitutes. Some defense attorneys in the case, however, argued the prosecution would have been more appropriate as a misdemeanor prostitution case in state court.
The trial began in mid-October and took a significant amount of time as the defendants were tried together, each had their own attorney and several used translators. Prosecutors say the women worked out of massage parlors in Orlando, Tampa, Cincinnati, Boston and Atlanta.
During the trial, jurors saw video taken by investigators during their undercover operations at the so-called massage parlors.

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ORANGE CITY — Four members of the new City Council took their oaths Tuesday night, then took up one of the biggest problems facing Florida residents: the proliferation of illegal prescription drugs.
After a special meeting during which the gavel was transferred from outgoing Mayor Harley Strickland to the man who defeated him in last week’s election, Tom Laputka, the council approved on first reading an ordinance limiting so-called “pill mills” to industrially zoned parcels. The businesses, legal in Florida, advertise themselves as pain clinics, massage parlors, detox centers and urgent-care facilities.
Alison Stetner, the development services director, said prescription-drug abuse is “the No. 1 safety threat to Floridians today,” causing seven deaths every day. Pill mills have been banned from the city on a short-term moratorium that was ending.

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Sex-trafficking trial under way in Florida
Published: Oct. 18, 2011 at 1:42 PM
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 18 (UPI) — Alleged members of a European sex-trafficking ring are on trial in Orlando, Fla., on federal charges, including racketeering and conspiracy.
Prosecutors say the alleged ringleader, Roman Caraiman of Moldova, has fled the country, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Eleven other defendants, including Caraiman’s 25-year-old wife, Tatiana Belinschi, were in court Tuesday.
Caraiman and Alexandr Postica are accused of recruiting women from other countries to work as prostitutes at massage parlors in Florida, Ohio, Michigan and Massachusetts, the Sentinel said.
The sex ring allegedly operated out of three Florida counties — Orange, Osceola and Hillsborough — since at least July 2009, with a portion of the proceeds going to Caraiman, Belinschi and Postica.

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Attorneys will take up other issues this afternoon, but the jury was sent home for the day.
The suspected ringleader, Roman Caraiman, is the only one of the 12 named in the 27-count indictment who will not be at trial — because he hasn’t been arrested.
Earlier this year, Caraiman told the Orlando Sentinel he fled the United States and was in Europe.
He left behind his baby and ex-wife, Tatiana Belinschi, who was one of the 11 defendants in the courtroom today.
It’s an unusually large trial for Orlando federal court — each defendant has an attorney, and Russian and Romanian translators are also in the courtroom. The trial is expected to last several weeks.
Federal prosecutors say Caraiman and Alexandr Postica recruited women to do sex work at massage parlors throughout the United States.

See the full article from “Orlando Sentinel”

Several people suspected of working in a Russian sex trafficking ring in Central Florida appeared in Orlando federal court Friday.
The first of those to appear was 25-year-old Tatiana Belinschi, who was recently indicted and arrested on charges ranging from racketeering to conspiracy to defraud the United States.
The 27-count indictment, unsealed this week, accuses Belinschi’s ex-husband, Roman Caraiman, and Alexandr Postica of recruiting women to work as sex workers at massage parlors around the United States.
Federal authorities said Caraiman imported people from Russia and sought to bring women from other countries to the United States, all to work in the sex trade.
None of those indicted by the grand jury are U.S. citizens. Belinschi is from the Republic of Moldova and told the court today she is seeking political asylum.

See the full article from “Orlando Sentinel”

Feds: Russian sex trafficking ring operating in Central Florida
A federal grand jury in Orlando has indicted a dozen people suspected of working in a Russian sex-trafficking ring in Central Florida for more than a year.
The 27-count indictment, unsealed this week, accuses Roman Caraiman and Alexandr Postica of recruiting women to work as sex workers at massage parlors around the United States.
Federal authorities said Caraiman imported people from Russia and sought to bring women from other countries to the United States, all to work in the sex trade.
None of those indicted by the grand jury are U.S. citizens.
Several have been arrested, including Tatiana Belinschi, a 25-year-old who goes by the alias “Laura.” She was booked into the Orange County Jail this week and is scheduled for arraignment Friday in Orlando federal court.

See the full article from “Orlando Sentinel”