Muthawah Howard Robin is accused of sex trafficking

The famous famous Bond Salum Bond merchant Howard Robin On Friday morning, his former personal assistant was arrested on charges of trafficking in sex and transporting women through state lines for commercial sex over a decade.

Robin, 70, participated in sex work with women in luxury hotels in New York, and then, a fifth rented apartment from two bedrooms in Manhattan that was converted into the so -called “sexual cell” equipped with slavery, discipline, hegemony, presentation, and narration, in addition to the settlement of peace, The indictment of 10 currencies.

Prosecutors said that the equipment included a “shock or electrical women.”

“During many of these meetings, Robin is participating in a behavior outside the approval of women,” the indictment in the US boycott court in Brooklyn, New York.

“During many of these meetings, Robin brutal women’s bodies, causing fear of their safety and/or leads to great pain or injuries, which sometimes required women to seek medical attention,” the indictment is charged.

The indictment said that Soros’s fund to manage the boxes and his former personal assistant, Jennifer Powers, 45, spent at least one million dollars of Robin’s money “running and continuing the trafficking network” “, which lasted from 2009 to 2019 at least.

Robin was arrested by the FBI agents at his home in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is scheduled to be called on Friday afternoon at the Brooklyn Federal Court.

Powers were arrested at her home in Sutik, Texas, and is scheduled to appear before the US District Court in the Northern Province in Texas next week. The authorities said that they were charged with bank fraud regarding the alleged distortions she provided to a bank while financing her mortgage and from her husband’s home in Soutcell, Texas.

In a letter to Judge Ko, the general prosecutors requested that Robin be detained without a guarantee, “Because no condition or a set of conditions can guarantee the appearance of Robin reasonably in the court as required or the safety of society.” The message noted that he had “an extraordinary wealth, some of which were held in accounts abroad.” In 2024, Robin had more than $ 74 million in the Cayman Islands account.

Prosecutors want a “large bail package” for the authorities.

A lawsuit was filed against Robin in November 2017 by two PlayBoy models whose identity and another model of Florida, who claimed were beaten, sexual abuse and rape by Robin in multiple accidents in New York City in 2016.

In April 2022, a civil jury in the Brooklyn Federal Court, Robin, was found responsible for sex trafficking six women who had filed a lawsuit against him and his authority, and ordered him to pay a total of $ 3.85 million in compensatory and punitive damage. The forces are not found responsible by that jury.

Robin is currently appealing to civil rule.

A spokesman for the US Public Prosecutor’s Office in Brooklyn had no comment when he was asked about the reason for the delay in nearly eight years between filed the civil lawsuit against Robin and the office who is obtaining a criminal indictment against him. At a time when the lawsuit was filed, the lawyer of the women who filed Robin CNBC said that the US Prosecutor’s Office had contacted him about the investigation of the financier.

After the prosecutors of Robin, he told a woman who saw her to have a commercial race from 20014 to 2019, “This is according to his arrangements, he was contacted on the dark network to target women who filed a civil lawsuit against him, but he did not eventually keep the murderer.”

Robin, after he worked as a bond trader in Salomon Brothers, also made a mission in Bear, Stearns and Merrill Lynch.

He won a general reputation in 1987 Make not authorized deals in Merrill LynchThe company said at the time contributed to a huge loss of $ 250 million in the hostage securities. Robin’s work in Mary, which led to his termination, was detailed in Michael Louis Wall Street’s memoirs.

The forces in the indictment are accused of facilitating Robin’s commercial nationality confrontations from 2011 to 2019, allegedly recruiting women to travel to New York and paying the price of their business with Robin, in addition to managing the “implications of complaints from women” caused by these actions.

CNBC requested a comment from Robin’s lawyer, Michael Gilbert, and Powers’ lawyer.

The indictment claims that sex trafficking for six women has also been identified as women who were transferred through state lines with the intention of engaging in prostitution, in violation of Man’s law.

“Robin and the authorities are asking women to sign a non -disclosure agreements … which have been claimed to require women to bear the risks and injury of BDSM with Robin, to prohibit BDSM information with Robin and requires the damage to the breach event.”

The office said: “Robin NDAS was used to threaten women with legal consequences and public disappointment if they sought legal asylum.”

Prosecutors said in their letter to the judge that “Robin and Pour are kept hidden from NDAS empty in Amna in the shed, which women are required to sign.”

“Women were not provided with a copy of NDAS before they were asked to sign,” the prosecutors wrote. “Women were asked to testify that they were not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of signing, sometimes they were provided with alcohol and/or drugs by Robin, or the forces or conspirators participating before they were presented to NDA.”

The office also said that after Robin’s alleged sexual confrontations with women, “Robin and/or authorities used Robin’s funds to pay women by negative conversion or payment service such as PayPal or Venmo.”

The office said: “Sometimes, the powers organized payments to avoid sending one treatment of $ 10,000 or more, to avoid providing reporting obligations by the bank,” the office said. “The indictment claims that the defendants spent at least a million dollars of Robin’s money that is working and preserving the network of trafficking.”

If sex trafficking is convicted, both Robin and authorities face each of them as the maximum of life imprisonment and the minimum mandatory for 15 years in prison.

“As claimed, the defendants used Robin’s fortune to mislead and recruit women to engage in commercial sex, as Robin tortured women after their approval, causing physical and permanent psychological pain, and in some cases, physical injuries,” Brokelin’s lawyer Joseph Nusela said in a statement.

“The arrest of today shows that no one participates in sex trafficking, in this case in luxury hotels and the apartment of Benthaus, which included the so -called” cell “, it is higher than the law, and it will be brought to justice.”

“Humans are not used for sex and a sadistic treatment, and anyone who believes otherwise can be expected to find themselves on handcuffs and face the federal claim of such defendants,” he said.

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