BALTIMORE (AP) - A Baltimore financier is accused of spending more than $90,000 on a sex-trafficking business, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Charles “Chuck” Nabit, 64, who owns the Westport Group LLC, was arrested Wednesday and released after posting a property bond. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release that Nabit is charged with using a phone and the Internet to promote a prostitution business.
His attorney could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday after the charges were announced, The Baltimore Sun reported.
Nabit’s arrest grew out of charges against an alleged trafficker who records show was indicted in October after an investigation that began in Howard County. According to the criminal complaint, commercial sex workers trafficked by Deangelo Johnson told investigators that Nabit used a cash app to pay Johnson directly for sex acts, and investigators documented 52 occasions beginning in March 2019.
If convicted, Nabit faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison, according to the news release.
A six-count indictment against Johnson, who has been jailed since being arrested last year, says that he routinely took “half or all” of the money victims working for him had earned and charged them for drugs he sold them.
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