Howard Rubin, a former New York financier with past ties to billionaire George Soros, was arrested on federal charges alleging he trafficked and abused women in a Midtown Manhattan penthouse outfitted as a soundproofed BDSM “sex dungeon.”

Federal authorities arrested Howard Rubin, 70, at his Fairfield, Connecticut, home Friday morning on charges of sex trafficking and transporting women across state lines for commercial sex acts. Prosecutors in Brooklyn allege Rubin lured women, including former Playboy models, to luxury hotels and a leased West 57th Street penthouse between 2009 and 2019, where he restrained, beat, and shocked them.

Rubin, once a high-profile Wall Street figure who managed funds for George Soros and worked at Salomon Brothers, is accused of spending more than $1 m

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