Prosecutor says no evidence of human trafficking at spa in Robert Kraft case

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1. reported

   Police entered Orchids of Asia through an investigation described as targeting suspected human trafficking. A health inspector testified that clothing, beds and other conditions looked to her like possible trafficking. A prosecutor later told the court that the state had no trafficking evidence at the spa, and Kraft was never charged with trafficking.

   AP reports on the prosecutor's representation and inspector testimony; appellate opinion's account of the investigation and charges

   Police say Kraft paid for sex twice; prosecutors charge him with solicitation · Charges dismissed September 24, 2020 after surveillance was suppressed; no conviction

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   Trump removed Kennedy Center trustees, installed major inaugural donor Robert Kraft's wife Dana on the replacement board and became chair. That board removed leadership, stripped ex officio voting rights, declared an off-agenda Trump renaming unanimous after dissent was muted and exterior signage had already been prepared or purchased, and pursued closure decisions that courts repeatedly blocked or constrained. The institution then recorded artist departures, displaced programming and internal forecasts of earned revenue 70 percent below budget and contributed revenue 25 percent below budget. Behind Dana Kraft's appointment, Robert Kraft's documented power network includes a $1 million Trump inaugural contribution, $3 million to AIPAC's super PAC, a $20 million FCAS commitment, a stadium-based online-monitoring operation and control of Gillette Stadium. His file also records police allegations that he paid for sex twice, the trafficking premise and later prosecutorial retreat in that investigation, suppression of the surveillance, dismissal of his charges, an Epstein offer of legal-network help and his confirmed Macklemore ban. The money and relationships are documented; the reviewed evidence does not establish that they purchased Dana Kraft's appointment. Kraft confirmed the Gillette ban; broader venue-owner coordination remains Macklemore's allegation, although the promoter and Ed Sheeran confirmed that multiple venues rejected the lineup.

   Prosecutor's representation that the state had no trafficking evidence at the spa

   Kennedy Center — a donor's wife, a captured board and the Kraft power network · Governance and closure litigation remains active