'Java Juggs' owner pleads guilty to operating coffee-stand brothels

[bananas]

Source: Reuters



The owner of Seattle-area drive-up coffee stands that offered caffeine and sex acts and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in tips for her baristas pleaded guilty to felony charges of fraud and promotion of prostitution, the county prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.

Carmela Panico, 52, must forfeit some $250,000 that police seized from her home last year and surrender her five coffee businesses in the Seattle area, the Herald of Everett newspaper reported, citing the Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

A paralegal with the office confirmed the plea deal but did not provide specifics.

“The business was popular,” an affidavit filed late last month in Washington state Superior Court in Snohomish County said.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/03/java-juggs-owner-pleads-guilty-to-operating-coffee-stand-brothels/

[Botany]

1. “The business was popular,”

[wilt the stilt]

2. Steven Tyler

Is this your other job?

[JustAnotherGen]

11. You saw that too!

[wilt the stilt]

12. I'm from yonkers

and we used to see him in high school with his band "chain reaction. My friend also played with him in the high school band. he was a drummer.

[JustAnotherGen]

15. Cool

Permanent Vacation was my first concert that I went to without my parents in tow. It was awesome!

[wilt the stilt]

18. I never went to a concert with my parents

I started going to concerts in the sixties.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. Your lucky

I got dragged to everything from Aretha Franklin to CCR to Kenny Rogers and even Charlie Pride - you name it or the band - good chance I saw them.

Music/Art were huge to my parents and now . . . I kind of regret not paying attention to all the concerts I went to as a little kid with them. Including the guy in your avatar in 1977 when we first moved back to the state.


Hey - Jerry Garcia or Maria on Sesame Street? Tough call!

[MrScorpio]

3. Only in Seattle, right?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. A new, successful coffee business in Seattle doesn't mean beans...

[Blue_Tires]

20. Yeah, I'm wondering why she just didn't run a cathouse

instead of this charade of masking it as a legit business...

http://election.democraticunderground.com/10023113598
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023123117

[mindwalker_i]

5. In Soviet Coffe Shop

You GIVE cup of Joe.

[benld74]

6. Reminds me of a Benny Hill skit,

2 guys sitting at table in outdoor café
Waitress brings coffee
Asks if they want sugar
They reply yes
She reaches into her blouse for the sugar and gives it to them
She asks them if they want cream
They immediately say NO

[L0oniX]

9. They'll have to go to China for that...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2356033/Human-breast-milk-new-luxury-item-Chinas-super-rich-firms-offering-wet-nurse-services.html

Human breast milk becomes new luxury item for China's super-rich with firms even offering wet nurse services
Bizarre trend sees elite paying thousands of dollars a month for service
Domestic staff firms offer expressed milk or served straight from the breast
Reports in China on trend caused outrage on country's equivalent of Twitter

[L0oniX]

7. Another case of big gobmint shutting down small business?

[eggplant]

13. Job killers.

hehheh heh.

[L0oniX]

16. Yer bad!

[FLPanhandle]

8. Sounds like simple flashing not prostitution

Unless I misread something.

[TlalocW]

10. C'mon, it's Seattle

This is just an example of what you have to do in order to stand out from the thousands of different coffee stands that are there.

TlalocW

[cosmicone]

14. Another victimless crime successfully prosecuted. Bravo! n/t

[heaven05]

17. should sex

between two consenting adults who agree that money is to be exchange be illegal? This faux puritanical, faux moralistic society is a big laugh sometime. Christians have really messed life up for consenting adults with this stupid sin shit.....

[jamzrockz]

21. You cant blame this on Christians

not in Seattle. This is that dirty, dark and stinking part of the political spectrum where the far left and the christian right meet. This time, the christians have nothing to do with it

[DeadLetterOffice]

22. I'm sorry...

...but my brain stopped processing information after "drive up... sex acts."