You know, if I ever decide to start a brothel, I am not going to use something like a massage parlor as my front, because everyone does that and they keep getting caught. I’ll have to use an accountant’s office or something. No one would suspect that.

Yesterday the authorities raided three “tanning salons”–one on Aurora (obviously), one in Tukwila, and one in Renton–and arrested a bunch of people on prostitution and money laundering charges [PI]. “Federal prosecutors say that Nguyen booked more than 70 flights in 2006, 2007 and 2008, allegedly carrying prostitutes to work at these brothels. The prostitutes were shuttled between Seattle and California or Seattle and Texas, Woo said. Woo said the women are from various Asian countries and that some are in the United States legally and others are not.”

The neighbors appear to be thrilled. If convinced, the two main main masterminds face up to 25 years each in jail for the two charges: 5 for prostitution and 20 for money laundering.