Howie Rubin
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Famed retired cash supervisor Howard Rubin was arrested Friday morning on expenses of sex trafficking and transporting girls throughout state traces for business sex acts over the course of a decade, based on a brand new indictment.
Rubin participated in sex acts with the ladies in luxurious lodges, and later, a rented penthouse condo in Manhattan that was transformed right into a so-called “sex dungeon” outfitted with bondage, self-discipline, dominance, submission and sadomasochism tools, authorities stated.
“During many such encounters, Rubin engaged in conduct beyond the scope of the women’s consent,” the 10-counting indictment alleges.
The 70-year-old Rubin, whose former private assistant, Jennifer Powers, was additionally arrested and charged within the case, is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday afternoon in federal court docket in Brooklyn, New York.
Rubin was arrested by FBI brokers at his residence in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Powers was arrested in Texas and is scheduled to look in federal court docket in that state on Monday. She can also be charged with financial institution fraud in connection with alleged misrepresentations she made to a financial institution whereas financing the mortgage for her and her husband’s Texas residence.
The indictment alleges the sex trafficking of six girls, a few of whom have been additionally recognized as girls who have been transported throughout state line with the intent to have interaction in prostitution, in violation of the Mann Act.
“Rubin and Powers required the women to sign non-disclosure agreements … which purported to require the women to assume the risk of the hazards and injury of the BDSM encounters with Rubin, prohibit the disclosure of information about the BDSM sex with Rubin and require the payment of damages in the event of a breach,” the Brooklyn U.S. Attonrney’s Office stated in an announcement.
“Rubin used the NDAs to threaten the women with legal consequences and public shaming if they sought legal recourse,” the workplace stated.
The workplace additionally stated that after Rubin’s alleged sexual encounters with girls, “Rubin and/or Powers used Rubin’s money to pay the women by wire transfer or a payment service such as PayPal or Venmo.”
“At times, Powers structured the payments to avoid sending a single transaction of $10,000 or more, to avoid triggering reporting obligations by the bank,” the workplace stated. “The indictment alleges the defendants spent at least $1 million of Rubin’s money operating and maintaining the trafficking network.”
If convicted of sex trafficking, Rubin and Power every face a most attainable sentence of life in jail and a compulsory minimal sentence of 15 years in jail.
Rubin was sued in 2017 by two self-identified Playboy fashions and one other mannequin from Florida, who claimed they have been crushed, sexually abused and raped by Rubin in a number of incidents in New York City in 2016.
“As alleged, the defendants used Rubin’s wealth to mislead and recruit women to engage in commercial sex acts, where Rubin then tortured women beyond their consent, causing lasting physical and/or psychological pain, and in some cases physical injuries,” Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella stated in an announcement.
“Today’s arrests show that no one who engages in sex trafficking, in this case in luxury hotels and a penthouse apartment that featured a so-called sex ‘dungeon,’ is above the law, and that they will be brought to justice,” Nocella stated.
“Human beings are not chattel to be exploited for sex and sadistically abused, and anyone who thinks otherwise can expect to find themselves in handcuffs and facing federal prosecution like these defendants,” he stated.
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