Robert Kraft's Lawyers Question Evidence From Recent “NSA-Style” Surveillance Sting

As part of an expensive investigation into human trafficking and prostitution in the South Florida region, billionaire Robert Kraft was caught in a sex sting at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa, located in Jupiter, Florida, and consequently charged with two counts of soliciting sex.

The police had used video surveillance to see what was going on inside several massage parlor and day spa locations.

A spokesman for Kraft has denied the illegal activity and now his attorneys have alleged that the police might have conducted an illegal search. They alleged that the police misrepresented evidence in an effort to obtain a search warrant that would allow them to secretly install video cameras inside of a massage parlor location. They say that the footage violates Constitutional privacy against unreasonable searches.

They want the evidence thrown out...

That includes everything that has been collected against Kraft. If they get their way then that means that the case could eventually be dismissed. Legal experts have criticized the police in this matter, who, they argue, had no authority for their sneak and peek surveillance operation. While others have insisted that the actions were completely legal.

Friends of Kraft, Michael Rubin more specifically, have commented on the recent incident and suggested that the situation, if anything, has been eye-opening to Kraft, by highlighting the reality and potential for discrimination in the country.

Rubin insists that the entire incident was fabricated, made up, by law enforcement. He alleges that Kraft had been videoed illegally and that he had been illegally pulled over. He admits that he now sees how the system is broken.

So far, even though hundreds have been arrested, the police still haven't charged anyone with human trafficking from the incident and have reportedly been unable to prove that human trafficking was linked to the investigation.

Kraft's case is now drawing attention to the reality that police can secretly install cameras inside of a private business venue; possible thanks to delayed-notice search warrants also known as sneak-and-peek warrants. Something which became a formality thanks to the USA Patriot Act. According to Martin County Sheriff, W Snyder, the police had posed as employees of other occupations and then attempted to gain access to the parlors to install their cameras.

Use of those sneak-and-peek warrants has reportedly been on the rise, with more than 9,000 warrants being used in 2016 alone, that's an increase of more than 12,000 percent since back in 2006, when there were only about 75 that had been issued.

Kraft's lawyers have asserted that the Florida police involved in the incident had staged a fake bomb threat in an attempt to install their surveillance cameras and eventually obtain that footage of Kraft.

They staged a suspicious package to try and get everyone out of the venue so that they could come in and secure their own cameras to collect that video surveillance. They further insist that the police had no authority to do something as drastic as pursue a sneak and peek warrant to collect the footage that they did; they've called out law enforcement for the astonishing lengths they were willing to take to make it happen. His lawyers have also insisted that police deliberately misled a judge to get their warrant for the spying.

Kraft has already refused a plea deal and his attorneys allegedly don't want to waive a speedy trial.

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