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… A federal jury has convicted a suburban Chicago massage parlor owner of forcing undocumented immigrants to engage in prostitution. Federal prosecutors say a jury in Chicago found Alex Campbell guilty on Monday of several charges, including forced labor, harboring illegal aliens for financial gain, sex trafficking by force and extortion. During the trial, prosecutors contended the 45-year-old Campbell recruited undocumented immigrants to his Mount Prospect massage parlor with promises of a place to live and assistance with their immigration. He then confiscated their passports and visas and made them get tattoos. He told the women that the tattoos made them his property. Authorities say Campbell forced the women to work for him between July 2008 and January 2010.
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During the trial, prosecutors contended the 45-year-old Campbell recruited undocumented immigrants to his Mount Prospect massage parlor with promises of a place to live and assistance with their immigration.

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Massage Parlor Owner Found Guilty of Sex Trafficking
Updated: Tuesday, 31 Jan 2012, 7:46 AM CSTPublished : Tuesday, 31 Jan 2012, 7:46 AM CST
Sun-Times Media Wire
Chicago – A northwest suburban massage parlor owner who forced four foreign women into prostitution — and made them to get tattooed with his moniker to show he owned them — was convicted by a federal jury on Monday.
Alex Campbell was found guilty of three counts each of forced labor, harboring illegal alliens for financial gain, and confiscating passports and other immigration documents to force the victims to work. He was also convicted of one count each of sex-trafficking by force and extortion, a release from the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
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He offered them jobs in his massage parlor, a place to live, assistance with immigration and lured each of them to enter into a romantic relationship with him, the release said. After getting that trust, he forced them to get tattooed with his moniker, which he said made them his property.

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Suburban massage parlor pimp convicted
Posted 1/31/12 6:52 a.m.
CHICAGO (WLS) - A northwest suburban massage parlor owner who forced four foreign women into prostitution and tattooed them with his moniker faces at least 15 years in prison after he was convicted by a federal jury on Monday.
Alex Daddy Campbell was found guilty of three counts each of forced labor, harboring illegal immigrants for financial gain, and confiscating passports and other immigration documents to force the victims to work. He was also convicted of sex-trafficking by force and extortion.
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He offered them jobs in his massage parlor, a place to live, assistance with immigration and lured each of them to enter into a romantic relationship with him. After getting that trust, he forced them to get tattooed with his name, which he said made them his property.

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While Elgin’s 2011 crime report looks promising, burglaries alone increased 31 percent. Still, violent crime as a whole went down in the city by 17 percent and serious crime — including all burglaries, robberies, homicides and assaults — reached its lowest point in 40 years. Full story.
As State of the State address nears, Quinn focuses on teacher pensions
In response to a dire new report on state finances, Gov. Pat Quinn said yesterday he wants schools and universities to help pay for their employees’ retirement costs. A statement from Quinn’s budget office said the practice of state government paying for the retirement of downstate teachers and professors “requires careful examination and reform” because “employers need to have a stake in funding their own employees’ pension costs.” Full story.
Former Mt. Prospect massage parlor operator guilty of human trafficking

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CHICAGO — A federal jury has convicted a suburban Chicago massage parlor owner of forcing undocumented immigrants to engage in prostitution. 
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CHICAGO — A federal jury has convicted a suburban Chicago massage parlor owner of forcing undocumented immigrants to engage in prostitution.  Federal prosecutors said a jury in Chicago found Alex Campbell guilty on Monday of several charges, including forced labor, harboring illegal aliens for financial gain, sex trafficking by force and extortion.   During the trial, prosecutors contended the 45-year-old Campbell recruited undocumented immigrants to his Mount Prospect massage parlor with promises of a place to live and assistance with their immigration.   He then confiscated their passports and visas and made them get tattoos. He told the women that the tattoos made them his property. Authorities said Campbell forced the women to work for him between July 2008 and January 2010.    

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… The Hustlers still recognize their strong ties to the Vice Lords, but maintain a certain partiality toward independence, so that they are free to work with other gangs when they have the opportunity to make money,” the Gang Book notes.
That includes renting out drug turf. In North Austin, a four-square block area on Chicago Avenue east of Laramie is operated by a small, unaffiliated group called “Dirty Us.”
The crime commission said one faction of the Hustlers, “The Goon Squad,” joined forces with members of the Gangster Disciples to conduct a wide range of lucrative criminal activities.
“They are involved extensively in… assault, murder, graffiti, armed robbery, extortion, drug trafficking, prostitution, fire arms ales, renting drug turf to independent dealers, and laundering money through businesses owned by the gang,” it states.

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CHICAGO — A federal jury has convicted a suburban Chicago massage parlor owner of forcing undocumented immigrants to engage in prostitution. Federal prosecutors say a jury in Chicago found Alex Campbell guilty today of several charges, including forced labor, harboring illegal aliens for financial gain, sex trafficking by force and extortion. During the trial, prosecutors contended the 45-year-old Campbell recruited undocumented immigrants to his Mount Prospect massage parlor with promises of a place to live and assistance with their immigration. He then confiscated their passports and visas and made them get tattoos. He told the women that the tattoos made them his property. Authorities say Campbell forced the women to work for him between July 2008 and January 2010.
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During the trial, prosecutors contended the 45-year-old Campbell recruited undocumented immigrants to his Mount Prospect massage parlor with promises of a place to live and assistance with their immigration.

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Prosecutors say Alex Campbell recruited victims to his Mount Prospect massage parlor between July 2008 and January 2010 with promises of a place to live and help with their immigration status. He then allegedly confiscated their passports and visas.

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Learning had shifted from monasteries and cathedral schools into the newly established universities. Muslim scholars had brought Arabic translations of Greek texts into the west, and their subsequent translation into Latin introduced Christian scholars to the works of Aristotle and others. Christian doctrine was encountering a wide range of competing beliefs, including those of Greek philosophy and its Jewish and Muslim interpreters. Aquinas brought to that era a synthesising brilliance with regard to texts and ideas which has left a deep imprint on western religion, politics, law and ethics.
Unlike his warring brothers, Aquinas was happier reflecting upon life than immersing himself within it. It was ideas, not politics and current affairs, that captured his imagination. As a young man he defied his family’s wishes that he should enter the Benedictine order, opting instead to join the recently established Dominicans or Order of Preachers, which he had encountered during his studies in Naples in 1242-43. His family arranged for him to be kidnapped and imprisoned and they even sent a prostitute to seduce him (nobody explains why seduction by a prostitute might make him more inclined to join the Benedictines than the Dominicans). Aquinas resisted and eventually his family capitulated.

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Brothel madam, 51, fights to win back her ‘bought’ adopted kids  with help of judge ‘boyfriend’, 77
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Kimberly Miniea, 51, from Chicago, has run a successful brothel since 1987 where her ‘girls’ charge $220 per trick. She has been arrested many times for prostitution offences but never jailed.
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Miniea was arrested most recently in December 2010 on charges of pandering for running a house of prostitution in Berkeley.
It followed yet another undercover operation in which a vice cop posed as a prostitute who wanted to work at the brothel.
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Miniea insists that the judge was never involved in any illegal activity at the brothel and only that he is her ‘platonic’ boyfriend.
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Arrests: Daughter Kim Petersen was a 17-year-old high school student when she was arrested for helping Miniea run her sex business in 2007, left, and Las Vegas call girl Vicki Ward, was also tied to Miniea’s brothel-operation

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