Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner is now facing charges for allegedly buying sex at a high-end brothel that was busted by federal authorities in 2023. Toner is a former head of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and has a wife and two children.

Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner was identified Friday as one of 28 men accused of paying for sex through a high-end brothel ring operating out of the city and others on the East Coast. Toner is one of 23 men publicly identified thus far.

The Cambridge city councilor is one of 28 men who are being identified as the most frequent patrons of a brothel that operated out luxury apartments in Cambridge and Watertown, and that generated millions of dollars in revenue catering to rich and powerful figures.