Overview

• Rubin, 70, pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn federal court after FBI agents arrested him in Fairfield, Connecticut, as a 10-count indictment was unsealed in EDNY.
• Former assistant Jennifer Powers was arrested in Southlake, Texas, with prosecutors alleging she recruited women, arranged travel and maintained the Manhattan penthouse room.
• The indictment details encounters from 2009 to 2019 at luxury hotels and a leased penthouse converted into a red, soundproofed room with restraints and devices to deliver electric shocks.
• Ten Jane Does are identified, with prosecutors alleging violence beyond consent, injuries requiring medical attention, encouragement to use alcohol or drugs, and threats tied to nondisclosure agreements.
• Prosecutors say at least $1 million funded the operation, payments were routed via wire and apps with transactions structured to avoid bank reporting, and they cited overseas assets and alleged witness threats in seeking detention; the sex-trafficking counts carry a 15-year mandatory minimum and up to life.