This place is lastly being dropped at heel.
A Lengthy Island foot spa renting area from Suffolk County Clerk Vincent Puleo had its lease yanked by the elected official after it was revealed the store was providing happy-endings.
Okay&T Foot Spa in St. James is now not in enterprise after Puleo stated he came upon Wednesday from a Newsday report concerning the reputed randy exercise, the enterprise instructed The Submit.
The alleged soiled deeds first got here to gentle in on-line evaluations of the situation, with one lady saying her boyfriend was propositioned for some sexual shenanigans after getting a standard foot therapeutic massage.
“You need?” the shopper was allegedly requested by a masseuse who “tapped” his personal space and made a “suggestive hand gesture,” in accordance with a submit written on Yelp.
“He was supplied a contented ending! We had been each in shock about that,” the submit continued.
That evaluation, in accordance with the web site, was left in January — to which the proprietor, Tom Hagzan, responded the spa doesn’t tolerate that and the employee could be handled.
However it seems that won’t have been the case, and the spa continued providing prostitution providers to its largely male clients, a few of whom would arrive after closing, in accordance with the outlet.
Puleo expressed to The Submit that he was “shocked,” and “dissatisfied” to be taught what was allegedly happening within the enterprise, which is situated in a Lake Avenue strip mall he owns.
“[Puleo] was not concerned with the every day operations of the spa,” his spokesperson, Todd Shapiro instructed The Submit, including that the clerk is simply too busy in his elected place to micro-manage the companies he rents to and had no thought the spa was performing shady actions.
“As quickly as he came upon, he terminated their lease and reached out to the [District Attorney] and [Suffolk County police] to research,” Shapiro added.
It’s at the moment unclear whether or not DA Ray Tierney’s workplace is investigating the claims. A spokesperson for the DA didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
When reached by The Submit, reps for the spa claimed their lease “expired” however refused to answer the prostitution claims.
The Okay&T closure comes amid an aggressive crackdown on unlawful therapeutic massage parlors throughout Suffolk County.
On Thursday, Tierney indicted 10 individuals — together with a ringleader accused of operating 4 storefronts as fronts for prostitution — in a long-term, multi-agency investigation that authorities say generated greater than $1 million in illicit proceeds.
The alleged enterprise, which operated from February 2025 by means of earlier this month, spanned three Huntington spas and a Flushing parlor, in accordance with prosecutors.
Xiaolan Gong, 59, of Flushing, was hit with a high rely of enterprise corruption and now faces as much as 25 years after authorities stated she used the companies to run a large-scale prostitution ring whereas laundering the earnings into mortgage funds and a brokerage funding account.
Search warrants executed Monday on the 4 parlors and 4 defendants’ residences turned up money and gold bars prosecutors allege are tied to the operation, authorities stated.
9 co-defendants — eight of them ladies accused of providing sexual acts to undercover officers — had been additionally charged.
