The private assistant for alleged S&M bondage fiend financier Howard Rubin — who prosecutors say had each facet of her life paid for by her multimillionaire boss — had her mother and father safe her bail Wednesday in her federal sex-trafficking and tax fraud case.
Jennifer Powers, 45, pleaded not responsible Wednesday to prices she recruited and paid girls to come back to Rubin’s twisted “sex dungeon” in his Midtown penthouse house, and lied on her taxes concerning the $9 million Rubin shelled out to fund her and her husband’s way of life.
Powers, who was initially launched on a private recognizance bond after an look in federal courtroom in Texas, had her bond set at $850,000 when she appeared earlier than Brooklyn Federal Court docket Justice of the Peace Decide Peggy Kuo.
Her father, Larry Mcguffin, who appeared in particular person, and her mom, Maria Teresa Mcguffin, secured the bond with their Texas dwelling and a part of their stake in a enterprise the couple owns.
Powers will stay on dwelling detention, forbidden from contacting Rubin or any of the alleged victims within the case. She, her father and her lawyer declined remark as they left the courtroom.
The feds allege Powers served as Rubin’s proper hand in a plot to psychologically and sexually brutalize a number of girls, and even procured the “bondage cross” used to chain and restrain them within the soundproof, locked “dungeon” in a bed room of his penthouse house close to Central Park.
The Midtown Manhattan house constructing the place Howard Rubin is accused of sexually brutalizing and torturing girls in a “sex dungeon” in his house. (Google)
Rubin is accused of beating and raping the ladies, even after they fell unconscious, ignoring their “safe word” or gagging them so that they wouldn’t be capable to say it.
On a number of events, girls confided in Powers relating to what Rubin made them endure, believing that Powers cared about their well-being,” the feds alleged in courtroom filings. “In reality, Powers made excuses for Rubin, blamed the women for Rubin’s behavior, or provided damage control by encouraging women to tend to their injuries with bruise cream and ice, or in some instances paying off the women in consultation with Rubin.”
Powers is charged with intercourse trafficking, violating the Mann Act and tax fraud. Her husband, who additionally faces tax fraud prices, faces arraignment at a later date.
Rubin, who was arrested Friday morning in Fairfield, Conn., stays held with out bail.
