#sex-trafficking

#sex-trafficking

Howard "Howie" Rubin, a once-prominent Salomon Brothers investment banker featured in the 1985 Wall Street expose "Liar's Poker," must remain in a federal jail in Brooklyn indefinitely as he fights sex-trafficking charges, a judge ruled on Wednesday. It was the third bail denial for Rubin, accused of paying women, many of them former Playboy models, $5,000 to engage in "fetish play," then constraining and torturing them, including by electrocuting them against their will.

The law is meant to offer hope to people who are facing long sentences for crimes related to their victimization: women who kill their abusers, for instance, or victims of sex trafficking who harm the people who have trafficked them. These people are often referred to as criminalized survivors, recognizing their dual status as victims and defendants. Similar laws have already been passed in California, Illinois, New York, Georgia, and Oklahoma and proposed in several other states.

She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald's. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter. Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for companionship with young women looking to make money.

By the time Jeffery Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl, he had established an enormous network of wealthy and influential friends. Emails made public this week show the crime did little to diminish the desire of that network to stay connected to the billionaire financier. Thousands of documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday offer a new glimpse into what Epstein's relationships with business executives, reporters, academics and political players looked like over a decade.

One of Henriques' victims was a 17-year-old prospective student, to whom he gave a tour of the college April 25, the U.S. Attorney's office said. After reviewing her tour registration form, which listed her date of birth, he asked her what grade she was in, and she told him what local high school she attended. Hours after finishing the tour, Henriques texted the victim using the phone number included on her admissions form and offered to pay her $400 for "some fun."

"don't make me kill you"

What my prosecutors felt here is that for Mr. Cai, who was exposing our victim to the human traffickers, the sex traffickers, and that's what made him qualify for pimping and pandering, said San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe. He basically turned her over to the sex traffickers, who have been trafficking her on a true human trafficking level.

Former Manhattan financier Howard Rubin wined and dined a "revolving door" of blonde, buxom babes at an eatery near the penthouse apartment off Central Park where he allegedly abused women in BDSM sessions in his penthouse's sex dungeon, The Post has learned. The sadist ex-George Soros exec, who was busted on sex trafficking charges Friday, was at the restaurant "at least once a week if not more," the restaurant manager told The Post.

A man running a sex ring operating out of Dubai's most glamorous neighbourhoods, and exploiting vulnerable women, has been identified by a BBC investigation. Charles Mwesigwa, who says he is a former London bus driver, told our undercover reporter he could provide women for a sex party at a starting price of $1,000 (740), adding that many can do "pretty much everything" clients want them to.