The last of the three indicted operators of a brothel network catering to wealthy clients in the suburbs of Boston and Washington D.C. has been sentenced to more than 2 years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Julia E. Kobick on Wednesday ordered James Lee, 70, of Torrance, Calif., to 27 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. The defendant must also pay $548,490 in restitution to the Small Business Administration and $20,833 to Harvard Small Business Finance, LLC.

The ruling is not as severe as his boss Han Lee’s four-year prison sentence, but it is longer than the “booker” Junmyung Lee’s sentence of a year.

All three operators, arrested in November 2023, had pleaded guilty to their roles in the brothel network, which took in at least $5.6 million from at least 9,450 commercial sex acts with Korean sex workers, according to court documents. Prosecutors have said the three are not related.

James Lee’s involvement in the case was focused on renting the high-end apartments where the illegal sex took place. Prosecutors had said that he was the “sole and legal tenant of at least six locations used by this prostitution network,” including those in Cambridge and Watertown.

James Lee used both his name and a series of fake and stolen identities, which he backed up with multiple fraudulent driver’s licenses. In addition to leasing the apartments, he worked as a liaison between the sex workers and property managers. For this work, prosecutors say, he was paid a $1,000 per month commission per active lease.

According to a sentencing memo from Assistant United States Attorney Lindsey Weinstein, James Lee accepted payment from Han Lee on “at least 63 occasions” for renting the six apartments used in the network.

Weinstein also stated that James Lee took in at least $580,000 in federal COVID-19 relief funds that he fraudulently obtained through the use of his name, forged identities, shell companies, and bank accounts.

The prosecution requested a sentence of 33 months and three years of supervised release.

“The defendant played an integral role in a sprawling criminal organization that operated a multi-state prostitution network and money laundering operation,” Weinstein wrote in the sentencing memo, filed on Monday. “He protected the prostitution and money laundering organization in multiple ways, and it would not have been successful without his active participation.”

James Lee pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to coerce women to travel interstate to engage in prostitution, money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud.

Of the thousands of men who frequented the Boston-area services, the cases of more than 30 of them were heard in court in Cambridge in March. Each was found to have probable cause for a criminal complaint to be issued.