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Robert Kraft claims police surveillance footage showing him inside a Florida massage parlor is the result of an “unlawful sneak-and-peek search warrant” … and he’s demanding officials keep it under wraps.
Kraft has filed fiery new documents in his prostitution case in Palm Beach County — slamming officials for putting hidden cameras inside of massage rooms as a ridiculous “governmental overreach.”
“Florida resorted to the most drastic, invasive, indiscriminate spying conceivable by law enforcement — taking continuous video recordings of private massages in which customers would be stripping naked as a matter of course — in order to prosecute what are at most misdemeanor offenses,”
Kraft says because we do not live in a police state — and because government must answer to the rule of law — the tapes must never go public.
The New England Patriots owner continues his attack … saying, “Law enforcement had no satisfying justification for going to such extreme, invasive lengths just to investigate run-of-the-mill suspicion of solicitation.”
Kraft says … because of other evidence collected in the case — including positive semen tests found in the spa’s trash — there was no need to plant the hidden cameras to “build a solicitation case around low-level consensual sex acts.”
There’s more … Kraft also says the narrative about the sting operation targeting human trafficking is B.S. — since officials have no real facts proving human trafficking ever occurred at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa visited by Kraft.
“Law enforcement peddled these falsehoods to try and manufacture a patina of necessity [to put cameras in the massage rooms], where none exists.”
Kraft is facing 2 misdemeanor counts of soliciting a prostitute during 2 visits to the spa in January. Officials say surveillance footage shows the 77-year-old receiving sex acts from spa employees in exchange for money.
Over the weekend, Kraft issued a statement on the case — saying he is “truly sorry” for his actions.