According to court documents, since 2009, Asuen has owned an online prostitution business—first named Prime DC and later DMV INDYS—that used Craigslist and Backpage to recruit prostitutes from throughout the United States to work in the Washington, D.C. area. He paid the travel and hotel costs and received 40 percent of the women’s hourly rates; the women would keep 60 percent. Once the prostitute arrived at the pre-arranged hotel, he or an associate would take their photograph and post it—along with details about the prostitutes, the services they would perform, and their rates—on the business’ website to solicit clients.
Asuen also partnered with Kuraye Tamunoibi Akuiyibo, 33, of Washington, D.C., who operated another D.C.-based online prostitution enterprise called Classy DC Escorts. The two men and their employees shared information about their clientele, prostitutes, and the services of various money collectors. Akuiyibo admitted that he assaulted an employee whom he believed was going to open a rival prostitution business and threatened to hurt a prostitute whom he thought had cheated him of money.
Since 2009, Asuen employed more than 50 prostitutes and generated more than $1.8 million in gross revenue. Akuiyibo employed more than 100 prostitutes from throughout the United States and Canada and generated more than $1.6 million. Court records state that both men laundered the proceeds from their prostitution enterprises through bank accounts and purchases, including luxury items such as cars, watches, and jewelry.
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