Police Used Fake Bomb Threat To Install Cameras In Robert Kraft Sex Spa Case

Robert Kraft’s attorneys were right the whole time. The police installed cameras with the help of a fake bomb threat. The whole thing was part of the investigation, as confirmed in a court filing made public Wednesday.

Jupiter Police Department officers “caused a phony ‘suspicious package’ warning to be issued for the Spa in order to force an evacuation so the JPD could install hidden cameras inside several of its private massage rooms, as well as in the Spa’s lobby.”

“This ruse concealed the execution of the Warrant from the Spa, its employees, and its customers, none of whom received notice of the issuance of the Warrant or the placement of hidden video cameras on Spa premises,” Jack Goldberger, Kraft’s Florida-based attorney, wrote. 

The Patriots owner is one of the 24 men charged with soliciting prostitution. Kraft pleaded not guilty to his charges and demanded a jury trial.

Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Howard Coates approved the “delayed notice warrant.”

Police officers used the bomb threat to instal the cameras on January 18, as confirmed in the filling by Kraft’s attorneys. The video surveillance operation was limited to five days.

The filling took issue with inspections conducted by Florida Department of Health specialist Karen Herzog whose reports were included in other warrants around the state as part of the prostitution sting.

Jupiter police detective Andrew Sharm wrote in the warrant application that “Herzog advised it appeared as though the female employees were living there as there were two rooms with beds, including sheets and pillows.” 

“Sharp made his reckless leap over to human trafficking based on supposed ‘evidence’ consisting of such things as observing a refrigerator stocked with food, two beds, and clothing‐all of which may be routinely observed at any number of places of employment, including law offices, for reasons having nothing to do with human trafficking,” Goldberger wrote.

“It strains credulity, however, to believe that Herzog would have observed such items and linked them to trafficking but somehow omitted those pictures from her report, choosing instead to include pictures of an open refrigerator and freezer.”

“In sum, the worst offenses that jump out from this record are not those committed by one or another masseuse or patron whose massage allegedly included (a) consensual sexual act,” Goldberger wrote. “Far more worrisome than any alleged misdemeanor are the astonishing lengths to which law enforcement went in order to orchestrate a calculated, systematic campaign to blow past established constitutional limits.”