Corporate America Controls The Human Trafficking Industry

Via Philadelphia Community Podcast: Legendary Attorney Mike Papantonio has worked on major cases targeting wrongdoing by Big Pharma, tobacco, weapon manufacturers, and the automobile industry. He’s also written a series of legal thrillers informed by his work. Papantonio’s latest novel "Inhuman Trafficking" is based on a current case which addresses the 150-billion-dollar human trafficking business. The novel co-authored with Alan Russell shines a light on the complicity of some major businesses and corporations.

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I'm Loraine Ballard Morrill. Mike Papantonio is one of the few living attorneys inducted into the trial lawyer hall of fame. He's a TV host and commentator, and has worked on major legal cases, focused on big pharma, tobacco weapon manufacturers and the automobile industry. He's also the best-selling author of legal thrillers informed by his cases. Mike's newest book, "Inhuman trafficking," who he has co-authored with Alan Russell is based on the case about human trafficking that he's working on. And the book is in the tradition of the legal thrillers of John Grisham. Thank you so much for joining us today.

Thank you, Loraine.

Well, let's talk about the state of human trafficking before we get into the novel itself. What is happening? What, first of all, what is human trafficking and why is it such a big business?

Well, first of all, it's emerged as a $42 billion a year business, and we have a real misconception about what it is. What we focus on with the lawsuit that we filed, it's a national lawsuit that's going to hopefully drive this entire litigation, is the corporate side of it. The idea is we think that most of the time, it's just one individual who traffics two or three girls. Very, very different. As a matter of fact, this, this book, one of the models that it uses is the trucking industry model, where we find that, that women are, girls mostly 14, 15, 16 year old girls, are trucked from LA to, to the East Coast and up the Eastern seaboard. And what they do is they, they, they take a semi, they break it into maybe six or seven different little rooms. They stop along the way at truck stops.

They say, we're coming, we'll be there at three o'clock, everybody converges on that truck stop. And, you know, has sex with these minors and, and leaves. And, and to understand that it, it, you don't do that, one person doesn't do that. It takes a lot of cooperation. It takes cooperation of the truck stop. It takes the people that are organizing the logistics of the trucking process. So it's very different from what most people think, Loraine. Another case that this book focuses on, happened 60 miles from us, where they brought in H2B workers from, from the Ukraine. Told them that, how would you like to work in the service industry, come to the United States and we'll, we'll, we'll teach you how to do that. And they have something called a step up process. It's used very often in this, in this business, where they hire them as a, maybe a greeter at a restaurant.

And they say, how would you like to make more money? And then that same restaurant owns a strip club, and then they move them to the strip club as a greeter. And then they say, how would you like to make more money than that? And then they put them on a pole dancing at a strip club. Then the next and final step is always, how would you like to meet Tom? And Tom is a trafficker and they disappear. So it's a, that's the exactly what happened just 60 miles down the road. But that happens all over the country. I mean, it's, we, we're just, we don't seem to be aware of what's happening in our backyard.

Well, you know, that is really one of the reasons why you write these books.

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