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Sick sex ‘drive’ — Trapped prostitutes shuttled to tricks by 6 cabbies: DA
Steven Hirsch
A father and son from Queens ran a lucrative — and cruel — brothel on wheels for two decades, using six livery drivers to deliver hookers to hotels and apartments, Manhattan prosecutors said in announcing the ring’s breakup yesterday.
In a sick twist, the dad, Vincent George Sr., 55, not only taught Vincent Jr., 33, how to pimp, but may at one point have either employed his own daughter as a hooker or pawned her off on yet another pimp, prosecutors said, declining to elaborate.
Johns on the go could purchase and enjoy a sex act without ever leaving the back seat, officials said of the operation, quoting the price scale at $200 to $500 per customer.
Business was good — one woman alone allegedly earned half-a-million dollars for the father and son last year, and the Georges employed five women at the time of the bust, officials said.
But as nice as they were to customers, the alleged father and son pimps were nasty to their prostitutes, threatening them, giving them little money so as to keep them helpless, and even branding them with tattoos — including a bar code on one woman’s neck, according to officials.
At least one of the women had a heart tattoo on her breast with the word “Vee,” which is the dad’s nickname.
At least three of the women had tattoos featuring the son’s nickname, “King Koby.”
The father and son trafficked their women from Queens and from Allentown, Pa., into the city, forcing them to solicit johns at upscale hotel bars and outside of strip clubs, officials said.
The women were made to pass out cards reading, “Professional Masseuse,” according to court documents.
“As is typical in domestic sex-trafficking cases, the trafficked victims were required to turn over all prostitution proceeds directly to their traffickers, who doled out only a few dollars a night to buy food and other necessities,” Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance said in announcing the indictments.
“As a result, the women had no control over their finances, making prostituted victims essentially helpless if they were to attempt to leave the operation,” he said in a written statement.
“They branded victims with tattoos depicting their street names, and at least one of the women was tattooed with a bar code as well,” the DA said.
The women were given quotas, and were threatened with violence for being late or not bringing in enough cash, officials said.
The father and son are being held without bail on charges of sex trafficking, money laundering and prostitution since their arrests in early April.
The six livery cab drivers pleaded not guilty today to charges of promoting prostitution — with one defense lawyer saying it’s hardly a bad deal for a driver to tell a fare where he can find a prostitute.
Bail was set in amounts ranging from $5,500 to $20,000 for the drivers, Ausama Ahmad, 36, of Brooklyn; Qabari Gaber, 56, of Manhattan; Theo Jones, 51, of Union City, NJ; David Lombardo, 55, of Linden, NJ; Assaf Nahomove, 40, of Fair Lawn, NJ; and Sokol Perkaj, 51, of Ossining.
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