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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Attorney General's Office has charged a man with prostitution and money laundering for operating a massage parlor that offered more than back rubs.
Yanling Hao, 46, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with engaging in a pattern of unlawful activity, a second-degree felony; money laundering, a second-degree felony; exploitation of prostitution, a third-degree felony; and prostitution, a class B misdemeanor.
During the nearly yearlong investigation, undercover officers from the Statewide Enforcement of Crimes by Undocumented Residents Strike Force went to a massage business in Taylorsville. Undercover officers were offered sexual acts by the masseuse, the charges state.
One woman told investigators that Hao "had convinced her to move to Utah to work at the parlor by telling her that it was a legitimate massage parlor," charges state.
When she arrived, however, the woman said she was instructed to perform sex acts on clients and give Hao $40 of the $60 paid by those clients, according to charging documents.
