Warrants: Sexual favors reported

Although search warrants have been routinely sealed during the investigation, three related to the Oct. 20, 2010, raid briefly became unsealed in January. The State Journal obtained them during the day they were publicly available.

The warrants show that at least four people — two former Rising Sun employees, a former client and a Madison Police detective — described paid sexual favors at Rising Sun. They describe men paying up to $180 an hour, with half going to the front desk attendant and half as a "tip" to a woman of their choosing, for an experience that begins with a shower, continues on a bed and ends with a sex act — or the offer of one.

"I asked (her) what we could do," reported a Madison Police detective who went into the Rising Sun in an undercover capacity while wired for sound on June 2, 2010. "She stated, 'We could do everything, everything.'"

"I asked her if I would be getting a 'happy ending,' and she stated that I would leave out of there 'very happy,'" he said.