A retired Big Apple financier who once had ties to George Soros was arrested Friday for allegedly sex-trafficking numerous women in a penthouse turned BDSM “sex dungeon,” federal prosecutors said.
Howard Rubin was picked up at his home in Fairfield, Ct,. on a 10-count indictment for “torturing women beyond their consent,” Brooklyn US Attorney Joseph Nocella charged in a statement.
Retired NYC financier Howard Rubin was arrested Friday for alleged sex-trafficking. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
The famed former money manager — known as “Howie” and “H” — is accused of abusing the victims first at a luxury New York City hotel and then later at a two-bedroom penthouse that he morphed into a dungeon filled with BDSM equipment between 2009 and 2019, prosecutors said.
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