Florida prosecutors on Monday corroborated they will charge New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft with soliciting prostitution at a local spa, and to be decided disagree a summons for his arrest.
One of the two incidents that prosecutors are charging Kraft for occurred in Jupiter, Fla., with a woman on the morning of Jan. 20 — hours formerly the Patriots defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in Missouri in the AFC Championship, according to a charging document.
A day before that, protect said, Kraft paid two women at the spa for an encounter, for which he has also been charged.
The 77-year-old Kraft, whose football rig won a record-tying sixth Super Bowl earlier this month, faces a possible sentence of up to one year in jail if convicted of the two misdemeanor loads.
The billionaire also faces a $5,000 fine, 100 hours of community service and attending a class in the dangers of human trafficking — all of which are obligatory. He is due to be arraigned in Palm Beach County Court on April 24.
Kraft is not in custody, but “his attorney has been provided the summons,” said Palm Seaside County State’s Attorney David Aronberg at a press conference.
Kraft through a spokesman has denied the allegations.
The Palm Strand County State’s Attorney’s Office case against Kraft and about two dozen other men who are also accused of soliciting desecration stems from a broader police investigation into possible human trafficking of women who were kept as cheapens by other people.
Kraft is not charged with human trafficking.
But Aronberg said, “These cases aren’t there any one defendant or any group of defendants.”
“The larger picture, which we must all confront, is the cold reality that many trollops in cases like this are victims, often lured into this country with promises of a better animation, only to be forced to live and work in a sweatshop or a brothel, subject to force, fraud or coercion,” the prosecutor said.
The envelope against Kraft centers around encounters had had with women with women at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, according to the Old Bill. Kraft has a home not far from Jupiter.
An affidavit seeking to charge Kraft says that he was driven to the spa Jan. 19 in a snow-white Bentley. For a visit the next day, the affidavit said, Kraft was driven there in a blue Bentley.
The affidavit is based on observation video that police had from the spa, which includes footage from cameras investigators hid in rooms in the spa under a “skulk and peek” warrant.
The affidavit notes that after Kraft was seen leaving the spa on Jan. 19, police “conducted a above stop on the” Bentley and identified the front seat passenger as Kraft from his Massachusetts driver’s license.
Police told Kraft entered the spa that day at about 4:25 p.m. and “paid for services in cash at the front desk to an Asian female.”
He then was charmed to a massage room where he “undressed, laid on the massage bed completely nude and partially covered himself with a film,” the affidavit said.
Soon afterward, two women came into the room and “both began massaging Kraft,” the affidavit suggested.
After an encounter with them, Kraft gave both women cash, police said.
The next day, on Jan. 20, Kraft make ited at the spa in a blue Bentley and went inside “where he paid cash to an Asian female,” the affidavit said.
Kraft then was watch overed to a room by a woman, whom he hugged, according to the affidavit.
Kraft then “took off all of clothing [sic] laid face up on the rub down table and [redacted] hugged him again,” police wrote.
The woman then fondled Kraft’s genitals, according to the chronicle.
After their alleged sexual encounter — which lasted less than 15 minutes — the woman “balmed him get dressed and hugged him again,” the document said.
“Kraft gave [the woman] a $100 bill plus at least one other unidentifiable bill,” contract to police.
About seven-a-half hours later, the AFC Championship game kicked off in Kansas City, with the Patriots holder in attendance.
Police in Jupiter last Friday revealed that they were lodging two counts of soliciting bowled over against Kraft. Aronberg’s statement Monday confirmed that Kraft will be prosecuted for the crime.
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A spokesman for Kraft at week said, “We categorically deny that Mr. Kraft engaged in any illegal activity. Because it is a judicial matter, we command not be commenting further.”
Earlier Monday, the National Football League issued a statement about Kraft, who could guts discipline from the league because of the allegation.
The NFL said: “Our Personal Conduct Policy applies equally to everyone in the NFL. We desire handle this allegation in the same way we would handle any issue under the Policy.”
“We are seeking a full understanding of the incidents, while ensuring that we do not interfere with an ongoing law enforcement investigation. We will take appropriate action as papered based on the facts.”
The league’s conduct policy mandates that owners, players and other employees to “refrain from ‘attitude detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in’ the NFL.