Federal prosecutors have announced that a network of "sophisticated" high-end brothels in the greater Boston area and eastern Virginia provided paid sex services to a range of clients, including elected officials, tech and pharmaceutical executives, military officers, doctors, government contractors with security clearances, and professors. The investigation into the involvement of sex buyers is ongoing. Three individuals have been charged with conspiracy to coerce and entice others to travel to engage in illegal sexual activity. The sex shops reportedly charged between $350 and upwards of $600 per hour, depending on the services requested. The appointments with sex workers allegedly took place in high-end apartment complexes with rent as high as $3,664. The brothels operated between July 2020 and the present in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, as well as in Fairfax and Tysons, Virginia. The investigation is ongoing, and authorities believe there may be potentially hundreds of yet-to-be-identified customers involved.