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Defendants Allegedly Arranged for Women to Travel to a Sex ‘Dungeon’ in a New York City Penthouse, Where He Exceeded the Scope of Their Consent by Violently Abusing ThemA 10-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging retired New York-based financier, Howard Rubin, also known as “Howie” and “H,” along with his personal assistant, Jennifer Powers, with sex trafficking and transporting women in interstate commerce for sex acts with Rubin. Rubin was also charged with bank fraud in connection with misrepresentations made to a bank in the course of financing Powers’s mortgage for the Texas home of...

A close associate of liberal billionaire George Soros has found himself in hot water. Six women have accused former Soros money manager Howard Rubin of taking kinky hobbies too far. The Daily Mail reported that Rubin, “is being accused by six women of beating them during sadomasochistic sex sessions at a specially constructed 'sex dungeon' in his Manhattan apartment.” The “right-hand man” of Soros, was “blamed for incurring $377 million of losses at Merrill Lynch in 1987,” is now being “accused of paying women up to $5,000 in order to take part in BDSM sex,” the Daily Mail said. Several...

As a high-earning money manager — including for the Soros Fund — Howard Rubin seemed to have it all. There was the multi-million-dollar co-op on the Upper East Side, as well as a $9 million waterfront estate in the Hamptons. Rubin and his wife, Mary, were known for their generosity on the city’s philanthropy circuit; from 2015 to 2016, the couple gave nearly $500,000 to charitable causes, including the New York Junior League and Hope for a Cure. But there was one other real-estate holding he kept hidden: a luxurious Madison Avenue penthouse, outfitted with blow-up photos of Playboy models...