They’d rent the women hotel rooms, which would also be used for commercial sex, authorities said, and use force, threat, fraud or coercion to get the women to comply, authorities said.
“Simon and his co-conspirators used cellular telephones to field phone calls from prospective clients,” federal prosecutors said, adding that the 37-year-old would then instruct the women via text message to go to a specific hotel to “engage in commercial sex acts.”