{"id":591707,"date":"2021-07-15T05:06:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T09:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591707"},"modified":"2021-07-15T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T09:06:09","slug":"ron-kind-rented-property-to-masseuse-suspected-of-prostitution-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-kind-rented-property-to-masseuse-suspected-of-prostitution-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Kind Rented Property to Masseuse Suspected of Prostitution, Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fron-kind-rented-property-to-masseuse-suspected-of-prostitution-human-trafficking%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591707&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.540540540541\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Police records show business owner kicked out of South Dakota for illegal activity<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ron-Kind-736x514-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ron-Kind-scaled-e1626213609300.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ron-Kind-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ron-Kind-1024x715.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ron-Kind-768x536.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ron-Kind-1536x1073.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ron-Kind-2048x1430.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ron-Kind-1400x978.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ron-Kind-703x491.jpeg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 July 15, 2021 5:00 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"106.40766902119\">\n<p><span>Before opening an alleged prostitution parlor on property owned by Rep. Ron Kind (D., Wis.), a Chinese masseuse lost her occupational license in another state after local police linked her to human trafficking and prostitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chunyan Yang began managing a South Dakota massage parlor in August 2013, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Yang-application.pdf\">local records<\/a> show. Within months, Sioux Falls police heard reports of &#8220;females being held against their will&#8221; at the establishment and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Sioux-Falls-police-summary.pdf\">launched<\/a> an investigation into &#8220;human trafficking&#8221; and &#8220;prostitution,&#8221; naming Yang as a subject. Two years later, she <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Yang-guilty-plea.pdf\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to practicing massage without a license and left South Dakota for Plymouth, Minnesota. But when Yang applied to renew her license in the city as owner of &#8220;Asian Health Massage,&#8221; Plymouth&#8217;s city council <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Yang-application-denial.pdf\">denied<\/a> the application, citing a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Plymouth-police-rec.pdf\">police background check<\/a> that linked the business to &#8220;illegal activity&#8221; through reviews on illicit sex massage sites.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The reviews state that they had sexual experiences with staff or massage therapists at this location,&#8221; then-Plymouth police chief Mike Goldstein <a href=\"https:\/\/nwsccc-plymouth.granicus.com\/player\/clip\/715?view_id=4&amp;redirect=true\">testified<\/a> at a council hearing. One such <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RubMaps-reviews.pdf\">review<\/a> described a masseuse named &#8220;Anna,&#8221; who &#8220;began to play around&#8221; with the client&#8217;s testicles before performing a penile maneuver that &#8220;made [him] pop in no time.&#8221; Goldstein later testified that Yang &#8220;used a number of different names over the last several years&#8221; and that &#8220;one of those names was Anna.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following the ordeal, Yang became the registered agent of La Crosse, Wis.-based Impression Spa in 2018. The parlor has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/ron-kind-rubs-elbows-with-law-firm-for-alleged-prostitution-ring\/\">advertised<\/a> on RubMaps\u2014which <\/span><i><span>USA Today<\/span><\/i><span> describes as &#8220;Yelp for sex spas&#8221;\u2014and rents office space from Kind, paying the Democrat up to $50,000 in 2018 and 2019 rental income.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kind has staunchly defended Impression Spa, calling criticism of its advertisements a &#8220;baseless, defamatory attack against an Asian woman-owned small business&#8221; in a May statement. The Democrat has yet to address Yang&#8217;s past legal issues and longstanding ties to prostitution, and his campaign did not return a request for comment on whether he vetted Yang&#8217;s business history before renting his property to her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yang&#8217;s alleged prostituting continued after the masseuse lost her license in Minnesota. In February 2017, police arrested an Asian Health Massage employee for prostitution following a sexual interaction with an undercover officer, Fox News <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/wisconsin-congressman-ron-kind-massage-agent-prostitution\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> in May. Yang personally directed the officer toward a &#8220;dimly lit room&#8221; before the massage, the police report states. She later told police that the business was registered in her &#8220;daughter&#8217;s name&#8221; as city officials denied her license renewal application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In May, Kind&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/ron-kind-rubs-elbows-with-law-firm-for-alleged-prostitution-ring\/\"><span>blamed<\/span><\/a><span> Impression Spa&#8217;s advertisements on RubMaps and other sexual sites on Google, saying that &#8220;because of Google&#8217;s algorithms, [the ads] get attached to various sites that the small business has no control over.&#8221; A Google spokesman pushed back on the defense, however, telling the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span> that the company &#8220;does not run Google ads&#8221; on any of the illicit sites in question and &#8220;prohibit[s] content that promotes compensated sex acts.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wisconsin attorney Joe Veenstra of Johns, Flaherty &amp; Collins also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/ron-kind-rubs-elbows-with-law-firm-for-alleged-prostitution-ring\/\"><span>defended<\/span><\/a><span> Impression Spa\u2014which has since been renamed Asian Sunny Massage\u2014as a &#8220;perfectly legitimate business.&#8221; In a May statement, the attorney threatened &#8220;serious legal action&#8221; toward &#8220;anyone in the press&#8221; publishing &#8220;political hit pieces.&#8221; Veenstra, however, did not disclose his status as a Kind campaign donor. The firm&#8217;s managing partner, Brent Smith, has also served as Kind&#8217;s campaign treasurer since August 2020, campaign finance disclosures show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Veenstra did not return a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Voters in Wisconsin&#8217;s Third Congressional District first elected Kind in 1996. He will likely face retired Navy SEAL Derrick Van Orden in 2022 after defeating the Republican by less than 3 points in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Police records show business owner kicked out of South Dakota for illegal activity  Collin Anderson \u2022 July 15, 2021 5:00 am Before opening an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}