Michael Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, could face trial next year on federal sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges after Bureau of Prisons medical staff declared him mentally competent to stand for the proceeding.

In May, U.S. District Judge Nusrat Choudhury ordered the 81-year-old to be hospitalized, finding he was unable to understand the case against him, in which he’s charged with running a sex trafficking ring in the Hamptons along with his romantic partner, Matthew Smith, and a third defendant, James Jacobson.

But after treatment at Federal Medical Center Butner, Jeffries’ competency was restored, the facility’s acting warden Blake Lott said in a letter to the court made public Wednesday.

“Mr. Jeffries is now competent to stand trial,” Lott wrote, a

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