Overview
- Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced charges including first-degree rape, attempted first-degree rape, sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment and weapons offenses tied to a June 5 incident in a Financial District apartment.
- Court filings allege Dr. Maurizio Miglietta met a 28-year-old woman through a medical networking event, displayed a firearm he said was loaded, placed it near her head, then forcibly subjected her to oral sex and attempted vaginal rape.
- Miglietta was arrested Monday and arraigned Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, where he pleaded not guilty.
- Justice Ann Thompson set bail at $1 million cash or $3 million partially secured bond, ordered surrender of all firearms and his passport, imposed electronic monitoring if released, and issued a temporary order of protection.
- The 56-year-old is a Touro College surgery professor and honorary NYPD police surgeon with past Secret Service consulting; the DA provided a Special Victims tip line and set his next court date for Jan. 21.