The attorneys for the manager at Orchids of Asia Day Spa revealed in an emergency court hearing this week that hidden camera footage of two employees performing oral and manual sex acts on Robert Kraft had been leaked to the press.
Lei Wang's lawyers appeared before Judge Leonard Hanser on Wednesday after filing a motion asking that all videos that were recorded by the Jupiter Police Department during their sting operation be barred from release.
The defense team argued that if the videos leaked to the press it would compromise their client's right to a fair trial in the case, where she is currently facing 30 counts including soliciting an individual to commit prostitution, maintaining a house of prostitution and deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution.
A temporary order to bar the release of the tapes was granted, but the lawyers found themselves in court again on Thursday after learning that The Blast had been approached by a third party offering to sell them footage of Kraft at the spa.
Wang's lawyers argued that the leaked footage had to have come from someone inside the Jupiter Police Department or the State Attorney's office, and asked the judge to hold the two agencies in contempt of court.
Police had previously noted however that there was also hidden cameras in place throughout the spa that were installed by owner Hua Zhang.
The defense team, police department and state attorney's office did not respond to requests for comment.
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Camera shy: Attorneys for Lei Wang (above in mugshot) appeared in court on Wednesday to order that all videos obtained by police from the Orchids of Asia sex sting be barred from release
Happy ending: The lawyers were back in court on Thursday despite the judge granting that motion when The Blast revealed footage of Robert Kraft (above on Sunday at a Boston Celtics game) was leaked to the site
The Blast was reportedly approached earlier this week with footage of Kraft at the spa.
'Representatives of our news operation viewed the footage, and upon watching, can verify the tape appears to show Kraft in the massage parlor with another person, presumably the massage therapist,' reported The Blast.
'In the video, the 77-year-old is already undressed and laying on the massage table with his hands placed behind his head. The camera angle is an overhead shot, and it’s believed the camera was placed in the ceiling.'
It is then noted that while 'only a portion of the videos collected by authorities' were available to view, 'it was enough to verify it’s legit.'
The footage was briefly posted online on another website as well, but was removed shortly after DailyMail.com viewed the brief snippet on Friday morning.
There has been a great deal of drama surrounding the release of the tapes in recent days after the lawyer prosecuting the case for the 15th judicial circuit announced that he intended to comply with requests to obtain the footage submitted by media outlets.
It was later revealed that the lawyer who made that statement did not have the authority to release the tapes to another party, or even make that decision on behalf the office.
That did not matter in the end however because hours after announcing the attorney announced his intent to release the video, a circuit court judge ruled that no video of Kraft or any other man accused in the sting would be released until a hearing was held in the case.
That hearing will now take place on April 29, giving Kraft two more weeks to try and find an argument that might get him out of his current predicament.
Should the judge side with the prosecution after that hearing, the State Attorney's office will release the videos after they 'pixelate or blur depictions of obscene or pornographic images before releasing such records to the public.'
The ruling came from Judge Hanser of the 15th Circuit Court after Kraft and his lawyers submitted a 32-page letter.
That 32-page letter made multiple arguments for why Kraft's team did not believe the three tapes of their client should be released to the public.
At the same time, the letter called out prosecutors for allegedly lying in court.
The defense team wrote in that letter that prosecutors repeatedly told them and the judge that no video would be released until a judge ruled on the case.
As proof of this, the lawyers offered up emails, court transcripts and more in the legal filing as evidence to back his claim.
'The state's position is the two videos of [Kraft] committing two separate sexual acts and paying money for those acts and a third video that captures the traffic stop of [Kraft] inside the spa are not items that constitute active criminal intelligence information or active criminal investigative information and are not exempt from public disclosure,' read a memorandum submitted by State's Attorney David Aronberg.
He then noted: 'Neither the State nor the Jupiter Police Department have any objection to any of the videos in the case being released.'
Aronberg went on to attack Kraft for the arguments he and his legal team made in a bid to halt the release of the tapes.
The state filed the memorandum on Monday in response to Kraft's 2nd amended motion for a protective order, which he filed last week.
Facials: Officers with the Jupiter Police Department had revealed in a report that there were also hidden cameras set up throughout the spa (above) by owner Hua Zhang
Waterworks: Wang's (above at her arraignment ion March) defense team asked that the Jupiter Police Department and State Attorney's office be held in contempt, claiming one of the agencies leaked tape
Kraft, who has spent the past two weeks dismissing any allegations of sex trafficking, said in his filing: 'Because the Jupiter Police Department deems the masseuses who are alleged to have performed acts to be victims of a sexual offense the videos are confidential.'
Aronberg dismissed that idea, and noted that all the spa employees who were arrested in the operation had been booked, photographed and named by authorities.
The prosecutor then revealed that two employees of the spa who were not arrested had been cooperating with authorities for months and interviewed by experts in the field of human trafficking.
It is noted that prosecutors would be willing to hold
