An Atlantic City man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for running a Korean prostitution ring in Mississippi by harboring women who were in the United States without authorization.
Federal court documents show Chi Sung Jung, 52, pleaded guilty in July in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to one count of bringing in and harboring aliens.
Jung has been held without bond in New Jersey since February, when he requested he be prosecuted closer to his home.
Jung was sentenced Nov. 1. The judge's sentencing order was entered in online court records last week.
Prosecutors say Jung organized and led the escort service that used online advertisements to arrange meetings for sex.
Jung faced up to 10 years in prison.
A federal grand jury indicted Jung and Moonseop Kim, 54, on multiple counts after Biloxi police arrested Kim and a 27-year-old woman on prostitution charges in September.
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The police sting involved an undercover operation in which an officer responded to an online ad for a date with a “super hot and sexy Korean girl.” The officer met the woman at a hotel. Police arrested the woman and Kim, her driver.
Authorities linked Kim and the woman to a multi-state prostitution ring based in Atlantic City and operated in Biloxi out of a rental home. The woman arrested with Kim lived there.
Investigators said Jung paid the rent and utilities and paid Kim for work including chauffeur service for the women.
Kim pleaded guilty to illegally transporting the women and was sentenced in May. He received credit for time served and was turned over to immigration officials for deportation.
