The alleged brothel “johns” implicated in the Greater Boston and DC suburb sex-trade case will be hauled into Cambridge District Court beginning in March.

The Criminal Clerk of Cambridge District Court announced today the probable cause hearings will be held on March 14, 21 and 28 and “no continuances will be granted, absent extraordinary circumstances,” the hearing order states.

All the alleged “johns,” called “Cambridge sexual conduct for a fee” defendants by the clerk’s office, are alleged to have paid for sex with prostitutes at brothels in Greater Boston.

On Nov. 8, 2023, the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts announced the arrest of three people accused of running a high-end brothel out of the suburbs around Boston and Washington D.C.

Prosecutors said clients included “elected officials, high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances, professors, attorneys” and others, and a Homeland Security investigator filed applications for criminal charges against 28 alleged Johns in December.

Those defendants, who are not named in the hearing order, now face the show-cause hearing they have fought to block. The SJC ruled they had to answer to the criminal clerk and those hearings are now on track.

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