County prosecutors will visit college campuses throughout New Jersey this fall to forge a relationship with survivors of assault through community forums, state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced Thursday at a campus sexual violence conference. The forums will be an opportunity for prosecutors and law enforcement to hear directly from survivors and assure them that allegations will…
The bill aims to end secret, mandatory arbitration proceedings for claims brought by employees against their employers. When local attorney Elizabeth Jubin Fujiwara started representing sex discrimination victims in Hawaii in 1986, it was rare to come across employees who were bound to go through secret arbitration proceedings rather than the court system. But over…
A Miami litigator expressed skepticism about the #MeToo movement during a bond hearing in the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building on Saturday. Kristi Kassebaum, a personal injury and criminal law attorney with the Kassebaum and Basile firm, made her remarks while speaking on behalf of her client Alejandro Perez. Perez, a fifth-grade teacher with Charles R. Hadley…
Frustrated when doctors couldn’t find her MRI results, a celebrated cellist with migraines decided to take matters into her own hands. What Alisa Horn, found out was devastating — a diagnosis of early-stage multiple sclerosis. When she found out was nearly as bad — right before taking the stage to perform “An American in Paris”…
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…
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…
A $27 million federal lawsuit was filed on Thursday that reads like something between American Psycho and a sinister version of Fifty Shades of Grey. Wall Street bigwig Howard Rubin stands accused of luring three unsuspecting women – two of which were former Playboy models – to his private sex dungeon in Manhattan, New York,…
A former manager of one of George Soros’ investment funds has been accused of human trafficking, violent rape and assault in an extraordinary $27million lawsuit filed by three Florida models. Howard ‘Howie’ Rubin, 62, is accused of sexually assaulting three women, two of whom are former Playboy bunnies, at an $8million penthouse in Manhattan in…
