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When the victims got to Philadelphia, the Botsvynyuk brothers turned on them, according to prosecutors. The brothers took away all their documents, forced the immigrants to live in pitiful conditions with little or no furniture, work at least 16-hour days with little food and rarely, if ever paid them as promised, according to U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger. 
The victims were also told that they owed the brothers between $10 and $50 thousand to basically buy their freedom, according to the indictment.
Workers who tried to escape were allegedly beaten and those who did escape often had family members back home threatened by the brothers.
In one instance, one of the brothers threatened to force a victim’s daughter (who was nine-years-old at the time) into prostitution to pay off the family “debt,” according to the indictment.

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An overseas tip sparked the investigation in 2005, but authorities said they had to overcome language and trust barriers as they worked with victims. The group includes young Ukrainian men desperate for work after finishing military service and a woman who was told her young daughter would be forced into prostitution in Ukraine if she fled, the FBI said. About eight victims are now cooperating.
There is no evidence the retailers and other employers, who typically hired cleaning crews through subcontractors, knew of the abusive working conditions, Memeger said.
The victims are expected to get temporary visas so they can stay in the U.S. legally while the court case unfolds, and can later apply for permanent residency, officials said.
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The brother arrested in Germany, 51-year-old Omelyan “Milo” Botsvynyuk, raped one of the victims and threatened to force the young daughter of another victim into prostitution, authorities charged.

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per month with free room and board by working for the Botsvynyuk organization. They smuggled the workers into
the United States
and put them to work as cleaning crews in retail stores, private homes and office buildings without paying them. They used physical force, threats of force, sexual assault and debt bondage to keep the victims in involuntary servitude. The indictment further alleges that even after some of the victims escaped, the defendants continued with their extortionist activities in order to recoup the organization’s investment in the workers. If direct threats failed and the workers did not return or make good on their debts, the Botsvynyuk brothers threatened violence to the workers’ families still residing in
Ukraine
. In one instance, according to the indictment, Omelyan Botsvynyuk threatened to place a worker’s then nine-year-old daughter into prostitution to pay off the family debt.

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An overseas tip sparked the investigation in 2005, but authorities said they had to overcome language and trust barriers as they worked with victims. The group includes young Ukrainian men desperate for work after finishing military service and a woman who was told her young daughter would be forced into prostitution in Ukraine if she fled, the FBI said. About eight victims are now cooperating.
There is no evidence the retailers and other employers, who typically hired cleaning crews through subcontractors, knew of the abusive working conditions, Memeger said.
The victims are expected to get temporary visas so they can stay in the U.S. legally while the court case enfolds, and can later apply for permanent residency, officials said.
…
The brother arrested in Germany, 51-year-old Omelyan “Milo” Botsvynyuk, raped one of the victims and threatened to force the young daughter of another victim into prostitution, authorities charged.

See the full article from “The Associated Press”

per month with free room and board by working for the Botsvynyuk organization. They smuggled the workers into
the United States
and put them to work as cleaning crews in retail stores, private homes and office buildings without paying them. They used physical force, threats of force, sexual assault and debt bondage to keep the victims in involuntary servitude. The indictment further alleges that even after some of the victims escaped, the defendants continued with their extortionist activities in order to recoup the organization’s investment in the workers. If direct threats failed and the workers did not return or make good on their debts, the Botsvynyuk brothers threatened violence to the workers’ families still residing in
Ukraine
. In one instance, according to the indictment, Omelyan Botsvynyuk threatened to place a worker’s then nine-year-old daughter into prostitution to pay off the family debt.

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Google scrambles to save license in China
BEIJING, China – China is threatening to revoke Google’s business license over the company’s decision to redirect Chinese traffic to computers in Hong Kong that are not governed by the communist government’s censorship practices.
Israeli FM: No Palestinian state by 2012
JERUSALEM – Israel’s hard-line foreign minister said Tuesday that there was “no chance” a Palestinian state would be established by 2012 — a message that threatened to cloud the latest visit by President Barack Obama’s Mideast envoy.
UN: human traffickers make $3 bn a year in Europe
MADRID – Traffickers who subject women and children to prostitution and forced labour are engaged in one of Europe’s most lucrative crimes — a €2.5 billion a year, modern-day slave trade whose victims are growing by 50 per cent annually, a United Nations agency said Tuesday.

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He canceled all vacations being taken by city police and ordered them all back on the job. He called state and county authorities for help. He announced the curfew and asked the residents of his city (and theirs) to understand.
“I have to do something to protect the lives of the people in the city of Chester,” he said.
And if that means temporarily restricting their freedom to go where they want to go when they want to go there, so be it.
He is not a nightstick-in-the-cummerbund sort of mayor, but he knows when to say “enough is enough.”
He has asked city council to extend the curfew for 30 days and it will no doubt comply.
Still, Butler was quick to point out the curfew may not last that long.
If it works and the violence subsides, it could be lifted sooner.
And then what? Then the city’s meaner streets will return back to the control of the thugs, drunks, drug addicts, pimps, whores and gang members.

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Claims: Porn star and former prostitute Devon James claims Tiger is the father of her nine-year-old son
For it seems that at the same time as Woods has launched a final concerted attempt to win his wife back, he’s been seen twice in recent days in the company of another blonde.
On the second occasion last week, Woods is said to have been with the unnamed woman on a golf course in Florida while his wife and children were visiting her brother in Shanghai.
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The first is said to be a boy, Austin Brinling, born nine years ago to former prostitute and porn star Devon James, who has previously claimed she was the golfer’s mistress for two-and-a-half years.
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Earlier this year, Miss James claimed she began an affair with Woods in 2006 after he hired her and another prostitute for £2,000 to have sex with him after they met at party.

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But some residents of Camden’s Waterfront South neighborhood have voiced a different opinion of Parry and Stetser, whom they knew as “Fat Face.”
In interviews earlier this year, residents said the duo had bullied them for years.
In court Tuesday, Stetser admitted that, as members of the department’s Special Operations Division’s 4th Platoon, he and the other officers planted drugs on suspects, threatened others with arrest using planted drugs and added drugs to the amount seized during arrests to expose suspects to greater penalties.
Stetser, who joined the department in 2003, acknowledged the officers stole money from drug suspects and paid prostitutes for information with drugs. He said the officers failed to report all of the drugs seized during an arrest so that drugs could be used later as planted evidence.

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In court Tuesday, Stetser had traded his police blues for a charcoal suit. He still sported the close-cropped haircut of a police officer and answered questions from U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler with a respectful: “Yes, sir.”
In May 2007, Stetser was assigned to the 4th Platoon, a division of the city’s police force with wide latitude to make drug busts all over the city. In court, he admitted that between then and when he was suspended in October 2009, he held back drugs â mostly crack cocaine â taken in seizures. He planted the drugs on some suspects to increase the amount confiscated or to build cases against people who did not have drugs in their possession.
Stetser said other drugs went to pay informants, many of them prostitutes, for information.

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