A retired financier has been charged with sex trafficking after allegedly running a New York City penthouse sex dungeon over the course of a decade.

Howard Rubin, 70, was arrested Friday morning in Fairfield, Connecticut, while his former personal assistant, Jennifer Powers, 45, was taken into custody in Texas.

A newly unsealed 10-count indictment accuses the pair of running a sex trafficking operation, recruiting dozens of women to perform BDSM acts with Rubin that were at times reportedly non-consensual and left some with painful injuries requiring medical care.

“During many of these encounters, Rubin brutalized women’s bodies,” the indictment states, adding that he spent at least $1 million to operate and maintain the sex network, which ran from 2009 to 2019.

Prosecutors say that

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