Former Soros Fund Management portfolio manager Howard Rubin faces federal sex trafficking charges for allegedly running a decade-long abuse operation.
A former Soros Fund Management portfolio manager has been indicted on charges of luring women — including former Playboy models — to his Manhattan penthouse with a room outfitted with a soundproof «dungeon», where prosecutors say he subjected them to violent sexual abuse.
Howard Rubin, 70, a retired New York financier also known as «Howie» and «H», has been indicted alongside Jennifer Powers, 45, his longtime assistant, on federal sex trafficking and bank fraud charges.
Prosecutors allege that between at least 2009 and 2019, Rubin ran an extensive network where he recruited women to engage in sex in exchange for money, often relying on force, fraud and coercion.
Rubin is accused of using nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) and coercion to silence women who suffered violent, torture-like abuse.
FBI Assistant Director Christopher Raia said that Rubin allegedly bankrolled an operation that left women physically and psychologically scarred. Rubin allegedly poured more than $1 million into flights, payouts to women and maintaining the Central Park Manhattan penthouse that was outfitted with restraints and shock devices.
«The defendants allegedly exploited Rubin’s status to ensnare their prospective victims and forced them to endure unthinkable physical trauma before silencing any outcries with threats of legal recourse», Raia said in a news release announcing the charges Friday.
