Money manager Howard Rubin arrested on federal sex trafficking charges

Famed wealth manager Howard Rubin was arrested Friday greeting connected charges of enactment trafficking and transporting women crossed authorities lines for commercialized enactment acts implicit the people of a decade, according to a caller indictment.

Rubin participated successful enactment acts with the women successful luxury hotels, and later, a rented penthouse flat successful Manhattan that was converted into a alleged "sex dungeon," the tribunal filing says.

"During galore specified encounters, Rubin engaged successful behaviour beyond the scope of the women's consent," an indictment alleges.

The 70-year-old Rubin, whose ceremonial idiosyncratic assistant, Jennifer Powers, was besides arrested and charged successful the case, is scheduled to beryllium arraigned connected Friday day successful national tribunal successful Brooklyn, New York.

Rubin was arrested by FBI agents astatine his location successful Fairfield, Connecticut.

Powers was arrested successful Texas and is scheduled to look successful national tribunal successful that authorities connected Monday. She is besides charged with slope fraud successful transportation with alleged misrepresentations she made to a slope portion financing the owe for her and her husband's Texas home.

Rubin was sued successful 2017 by 2 self-identified Playboy models and different exemplary from Florida, who claimed they were beaten, sexually abused and raped by Rubin successful aggregate incidents successful New York City successful 2016.

"As alleged, the defendants utilized Rubin's wealthiness to mislead and enlistee women to prosecute successful commercialized enactment acts, wherever Rubin past tortured women beyond their consent, causing lasting carnal and/or intelligence pain, and successful immoderate cases carnal injuries," Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella said successful a statement.

"Today's arrests amusement that nary 1 who engages successful enactment trafficking, successful this lawsuit successful luxury hotels and a penthouse flat that featured a alleged enactment 'dungeon,' is supra the law, and that they volition beryllium brought to justice," Nocella said.

"Human beings are not chattel to beryllium exploited for enactment and sadistically abused, and anyone who thinks different tin expect to find themselves successful handcuffs and facing national prosecution similar these defendants," helium said.

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