U.S. National Pleads Guilty to Alien Smuggling

On August 22, 2001, Ronald Eppinger, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Miami) to charges of smuggling aliens into the U.S. for purposes of prostitution, facilitating interstate prostitution, and money laundering. Mr. Eppinger promised to find women work as models if they would leave their homes in Eastern Europe and migrate to the U.S. On their arrival, Mr. Eppinger put them to work as prostitutes…[more]