Ronald Fleming is a restaurant supplies entrepreneur with a decades-past record of statutory rape, having a wife and children and running his business since.
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Despite alleging he reformed, he actually continued to offend by downloading child porn and paying for sexual services from girls smuggled in from Central America and held captive by a pimp named Jerry.
He hired hacker Raj Garg to plant evidence related to Congressman Luke Bolton and restaurant owner Eugene Lee, who were harassed as part of a conspiracy theory campaign run by Ron Duca. But when Garg was tracked, he sold out Fleming. When Fleming was arrested, he agreed to a sting to catch the pimp and save the girls.
However, the police let Fleming drink at the sting, where one of the girls, Marian, was driven up by accomplice and car service driver Vincent Johnson. Fleming hid a gun police didn't find and shot himself in an attempted suicide out of depression. Johnson sped away before Marian was to get out of the car, but stopped when he was blocked by a cab and surrendered. Johnson was arrested, Marian was rescued, and she assisted the team in tracking Jerry and rescuing the remaining girls.
Fleming was hospitalized, presumably being charged and imprisoned if having recovered from the shot. (SVU: "Real Fake News")