Kraft, 80, pleaded not guilty and attorneys led the fight to get the evidence against him and the other men dismissed. Two weeks later, the team won a sixth Super Bowl under Kraft’s ownership. Police say they recorded Kraft, a widower, paying for sex acts at the spa on consecutive days in January 2019, including the morning of the AFC Championship game the Patriots won in Kansas City that evening. It ended without any significant convictions. Kraft and the others were charged in February 2019 after an investigation into possible prostitution, stemming from a wider investigation into whether Chinese women were sex trafficked to Florida. Prosecutors chose not to challenge the ruling with the state supreme court. He determined that a warrant allowing the installation of hidden cameras inside a massage parlor in Jupiter did not sufficiently protect the privacy of innocent customers receiving legal massages. Prosecutors dropped misdemeanor solicitation charges against Kraft and almost two dozen other men after an appeals court upheld Hanser’s 2019 ruling. The judge in Palm Beach county, Leonard Hanser, agreed with prosecutors and attorneys for Kraft that the recording he ruled inadmissible at trial was not part of the permanent court file.
