Sarah Blaskey, Nicholas Nehmas, Caitlin Ostroff

Miami Herald

Seated at a round table littered with party favors and the paper-cutout footballs that have become tradition at his annual Super Bowl Watch Party, President Donald Trump cheered the New England Patriots and his longtime friend, team owner Robert Kraft, to victory over the Los Angeles Rams on Feb. 3.

Sometime during the party at Trump’s West Palm Beach country club, the president turned in his chair to look over his right shoulder, smiling for a photo with two women at a table behind him.

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The woman who snapped the blurry Super Bowl selfie with the president was Li Yang, 45, a self-made entrepreneur from China who started a chain of Asian day spas in South Florida. Over the years, these establishments — many of which operate under the name Tokyo Day Spas — have gained a reputation for offering sexual services.

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Nineteen days after Trump and Yang posed together while rooting for the Patriots, authorities would charge Kraft with soliciting prostitution at a spa in Jupiter that Yang had founded more than a decade earlier.

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Kraft was one of nearly 300 men accused of paying for sexual services at 10 spas across Florida raided Feb. 19. Investigators said women working in those spas were victims of human trafficking being held in sex slavery.

Kraft is charged with paying women at Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter twice during the NFL playoffs, including the morning the Patriots won the AFC Championship game in Kansas City.

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Jupiter police said the acts were captured on video surveillance.

Kraft pleaded not guilty in both cases and asked for a non-jury trial.

The charges Kraft faces are both first-degree misdemeanors, punishable by up to a year in jail.

Florida statutes require a minimum of 10 days in jail for any prostitution solicitiation offenses after the first violation. A conviction also carries the possibility of a $5,000 fine, 100 hours of community service and participation in educational programs.

TCPalm journalist Mary Helen Moore contributed to this report.