ATLANTA - A 42-year-old Atlanta woman has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for running a brothel in Buckhead and fraudulently collecting nearly $70,000 in pandemic relief loans.

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Jamika "Jae" Weese will also serve three years of supervised release, pay $69,000 in restitution and register as a sex offender, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. She pleaded guilty last year to transporting an individual across state lines for prostitution and to wire fraud.

According to prosecutors, Weese operated a brothel out of a Buckhead apartment beginning in 2017, directing women to meet clients and taking more than half of their earnings. Investigators said she forced some women into sex work through threats and physical abuse, including at gunpoint. She also arranged for

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