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Found another recent human trafficking arrest that I didn’t see before. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lawrence-ray-charged-multiple-offenses-including-extortion-sex-trafficking-forced-labor
A sex-trafficking svengali created a cult à la Nxivm — preying on classmates of his daughter at Sarah Lawrence College, Manhattan authorities said Tuesday.
Lawrence Ray — who once served as best man at former top city cop Bernie Kerik’s wedding — made half a million dollars pimping out one co-ed, federal prosecutors said in an indictment.
“If you’re not angry, you don’t have a soul,’’ William Sweeney, assistant director of the FBI’s New York office, said of the case at a Manhattan press conference.
Ray allegedly embarked on his sick scheme in 2010, when he moved into the on-campus pad where his daughter, then a sophomore at the prestigious school, lived with seven female and male roommates.
The suspect — who was convicted in 2001 in a pump-and-dump stock fraud scheme — had been released from prison in a separate child-custody-battle case just days earlier.
At first, the twisted dad presented himself as a caring “father figure,’’ according to the indictment.
He soon began lecturing the young group “on his personal philosophy and conducted his ‘therapy’ sessions … during which he learned intimate details about their private lives, vulnerabilities, and mental health struggles with the pretense of helping them,’’ the document said.
Ray, who was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, then launched what amounted to a decade-long reign of terror over his victims — including for several years from a one-bedroom Upper East Side apartment, the feds said.
He allegedly used psychological torture and physical violence to keep his victims under his thumb and force them to do his bidding.”
From March 25, 2020 https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/25/do-you-recognize-this-person-contra-costa-authorities-release-photo-of-person-in-human-trafficking-investigation/
MARTINEZ — Authorities in Contra Costa are trying to identify a female subject whose picture turned up in the course of a human trafficking investigation, and they’re at the point where they need the public’s help.
Last week, the Contra Costa District Attorney released a photograph that appears to be a video still, along with a request for anyone who knows the person in it to call their office. Authorities have not revealed how the person relates to the investigation.
It is incredibly rare for investigators to publicly release a photograph in the midst of an ongoing criminal investigation, especially one relating to sexual abuse or human trafficking. A District Attorney would not say why it was done in this instance.
It is unclear what importance the photo has, but for several months, authorities in several federal and state law enforcement agencies have been investigation what they describe as one of the biggest child trafficking cases to hit this region. It centers on an Oakland dental surgeon named Cassidy Lavorini-Doyle, who was charged with approaching a woman and attempting to buy her two daughters.”