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Date: 09-26-2025
Case Style: United States of America v. Howard Rubin
Case Number: 25-CR-281
Judge: Margo K. Brodie
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Kings County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn
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Description: New York, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking and prostitution.
Between 2009 to 2011, the commercial sex acts primarily occurred at luxury hotels in Manhattan, New York. Beginning in 2011, the defendant HOW ARD RUBIN leased a luxury penthouse apartment located near Central Park, New York (the "Penthouse"). RUBIN and the defendant JENNIFER POWERS transformed one of the bedrooms in the Penthouse into a sex "dungeon" that was painted red and soundproofed; had a lock on the door; was furnished with BDSM equipment to which women could be strapped and restrained; and contained devices to shock or electrocute them, among other items. RUBIN also traveled out of state to engage in commercial sex acts with women, including to Las Vegas, Nevada.
The defendant HOWARD RUBIN paid different women for commercial sex multiple times a week, sometimes on consecutive days. The defendant JENNIFER POWERS frequently arranged the women's flights to New York, often to LaGuardia or John F.
Kennedy Airports in Queens, New York, and transportation to the Penthouse; facilitated the women's entry with the Penthouse building doormen; and coordinated with the women to ensure that their visits to the Penthouse did not overlap. After the sexual encounters, RUBIN often described the encounters in detail to POWERS, who used the information to manage fallout with the women because of RUBIN's violence. Additionally, after the sexual encounters, RUBIN and/or POWERS used RUBIN's money to pay the women by wire transfer or a payment service such as PayPal or Venmo. At times, POWERS structured the payments to avoid sending a single transaction of$10,000 or more. If RUBIN was satisfied with the way that the women had endured a sexual encounter, the women received $5,000 per encounter; if he was dissatisfied, he paid them several thousand dollars less.
Outcome: An indictment is not proof of guilt.
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