Between 1986 and January 2000, Defendant Lakireddy Bali Reddy, who was the organizer and leader of the illegal sex, labor and human trafficking ring, and his codefendants, members of his family, conspired to bring Indian nationals into the US with fraudulent visas. Defendant Bali Reddy brought many of his victims through exploiting the H-1B visa system, claiming that the victims were computer programmers. Once in the US, the victims were forced to clean Defendant Bali Reddy's building and be his sex slaves. The Indian victims usually entered the US with fraudulent identities and fraudulent Indian passports. Defendants arranged for the falsification of the those documents, the transportation and harboring of the victims, and for their employment. Specifically, Defendant Lakireddy Bali Reddy arranged that Venkateswara Vemireddy enter the US on a fraudulent visa, bringing his sister, posing as his wife, and two minor Indian girls, posing as their daughters, into the US. In similar ways, between 25 and 99 Indian nationals were brought into the US. At least some of the victims were young women and girls from extremely impoverished Indian families, who were desperate to come to the US and depended entirely on Defendant Lakireddy Bali Reddy for employment, living expenses and arrangements and income both in the US and in India. Many of the victims were abused both physically and verbally at the hands of Defendant Bali Reddy, his family and his associates. In addition, many of the victims, if not all, did not speak English and were kept in complete isolation for such an extented period of time that they sustained extreme psychological injuries.
Defendant Jayaprakash Lakireddy, the brother of Defendant Lakireddy Bail Reddy, is Defendant Annapurna Lakireddy's husband. Defendants Kumar Lakireddy and Prasad Lakireddy are Defedenant Bail Reddy's sons.