Prostitution Case Against Robert Kraft On Thin Ice After Bombshell Ruling

A woman accused of sexually servicing Patriots owner Robert Kraft said she would fight the efforts to get her to testify against him. This was another blow to prosecutors’ case after the judge barred the use of the spa video against the Patriots owner. Lei Wang said she would invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the prostitution case.

Wang provided sexual services to the Patriots owner at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida, and is charger in her own case with deriving support from prostitution by leading the business.

Wang’s lawyer, Katie Phang, told CNBC that this filling “isn’t normal.”

“I did it as a preventative measure knowing that … prosecutors may try to prove their case through my client.”

Wang’s filing happened less than 24 hours after Palm Beach County Judge Leonard Hanser took prosecutors the right to use the spa video as evidence against the Patriots owner.

Kraft’s second visit at the spa happened hours before he watched the Patriots defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game, en route to the sixth Super Bowl title.

The Patriots owner pleaded not guilty.

Hanser’s ruling opened the door to the possibility that Kraft’s case may be dismissed.

Wang has a hearing on Monday.

“I’m obviously very pleased with it,” Phang said. “Judge Hanser got it right … It should all be suppressed. I think it’s potentially fatal to the state not to have the video evidence against my client.”

The cops didn’t take any steps to “minimize the recording of activities not related to crimes under investigation.”

“The fact that some totally innocent women and men had their entire lawful time spent in a massage room fully recorded and viewed intermittently by a detective-monitor is unacceptable and results from the lack of sufficient pre-monitoring guidelines,” Hanser wrote.

Joseph Tacopina, a New York lawyer, who represents the customers of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa who received services at the spot.

“I think the amount of violations that occurred in this case by law enforcement is astonishing,” said Tacopina. “There’s a ton of Fourth Amendment violations here.”