As the nation renews debate over gun control, the Supreme Court must decide whether to press ahead with a Second Amendment case it has accepted for the coming term, its first in a decade. Gun-control groups operate under a no-news-is-good-news approach to the Supreme Court, leery of giving what they view as a strengthened conservative…
WASHINGTON — The bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation known as the “First Step Act” put in place improvements in the care of pregnant inmates, but advocates say it was a baby step and are calling for more to be done. The new law bans restraining federal inmates during pregnancy, labor and postpartum recovery unless the…
A federal judge in Mississippi on Friday blocked a state law that prohibited abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, around six weeks into pregnancy. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves said in the ruling that the law “prevents a woman’s free choice, which is central to personal dignity and autonomy.” “S.B. 2116 threatens immediate harm…
At least 11 states, from California to Vermont, passed new protections addressing workplace harassment in 2018 — and many of them go into effect in the new year. California also passed a new law requiring women on corporate boards by the end of 2019. The reforms come as the #MeToo movement has raised the curtain…
A fourth woman has filed a lawsuit accusing former Soros Fund portfolio manager Howard Rubin of brutalizing her in his Manhattan penthouse sex dungeon, saying he ignored her repeated use of their agreed-upon safe word, “pineapples,” during an S&M session. The woman, who has requested anonymity in her $7 million Manhattan Supreme Court suit as…
Three women filed a $27 million lawsuit on Thursday against Howie Rubin, a Wall Street figure they say raped and beat them, the New York Post reports. Rubin, 62, formerly worked as the portfolio manager for Soros Fund Management and as a trader for Bear Stearns. The women bringing the complaint against him are all…
Another woman has filed a lawsuit alleging that the former investment manager of billionaire George Soros’s company raped and tortured her. She is the fourth to make such claims. The 20-year-old woman, who requested anonymity, said a friend arranged for her to meet Howard Rubin, 62, in November 2015 for dinner and drinks. The friend…
Three women are accusing a New York millionaire of rape and violence after enticing them to visit his swanky penthouse in Manhattan. In a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn on Thursday, Howard Rubin, 62, a successful businessman on Wall Street, was accused by three women of rape and such severe physical abuse that at least one…
A former portfolio manager for an investment fund founded by financier George Soros sexually abused women at a Manhattan penthouse dungeon, according to a $27 million Brooklyn federal suit. Howie Rubin, 62, whose high-stakes dealing was featured in the best-selling books “Liar’s Poker” and “The Big Short,” rented the lavish Metropolitan Tower pad in Midtown…
Having first made headlines this past November, it appears that Howard Rubin, the former investment fund manager for George Soros, has been charged with a new allegation of rape. In November, it was reported that three women who alleged that Rubin raped them in his penthouse sex dungeon had joined forces and filed a $27…
