(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - New Orleans Field Office) Sex Trafficking Scheme Used Threats, Violence and Coercion to Compel Women into Prostitution in New Orleans and Elsewhere Additional defendants were sentenced today for their respective roles in a sex trafficking scheme operated out of the Riviera Motel in New Orleans, which compelled multiple women to engage in prostitution in New Orleans and elsewhere, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana. Duane Phillips, 31, was sentenced to 251 months in prison; Anthony Ellis,...
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