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Ryan Hemphill, who remains jailed after his arrest last month, pleaded not guilty to a 116-count indictment charging him with predatory sexual assault and other crimes dating to last October. The 43-year-old, who is also a lawyer, threatened to have victims arrested or disappeared in a bid to keep them silent, prosecutors said.

“The defendant told these survivors that he was untouchable,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said. “The indictment makes clear that he was wrong.”

Hemphill’s apartment, near the Empire State Building, was outfitted with numerous surveillance cameras, and investigators have recovered images showing dozens, if not hundreds, of other women, many of them naked and blindfolded, Curzer said.

Investigators also found hundreds of bullets and high-capacity magazines, and a large amount of drugs, including heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, and fentanyl, prosecutors said.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 points 17 hours ago

demon did demon things

Not surprised

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

Uhh yeah? The title did say he was in private equity.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

A jury found him innocent of beating his girlfriend in 2015. He said that he was just really into kinky sex. The jury bought it. And here we are. Potentially hundreds of victims in.

https://nypost.com/2015/03/23/court-finds-sm-loving-lawyer-not-guilty-of-assault/

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well, he is into "kinky" sex. His partners... not so much.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"Kinky" rape is basically just rape

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Yes, that's a valid description.

[–] BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

The system works! /s

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I was curious what firm, looks like he is the founder of Madison Park Capital Advisors.

Disturbingly, he was VP of the Public Justice Foundation.

He also was the CFO for UN Peacekeeping where he developed a school for young women in Gaza. I'd say this should be investigated, but with Israel doing a genocide, who knows if those ladies are around to tell their story.

He's also been involved with the Bronx Opera Children's program.... So seems like something else that should be looked into.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 25 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Predators often hide among charity efforts. It gives them cover, power and easy access to victims.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 20 hours ago

Yup, that was what jumped out at me too. Dude was 100% using charity as a cover to surround himself with vulnerable potential victims.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

Sort of sounds like a problem that could be solved with a sealed oil barrel and the Hudson river TBH...

because that might be where the prison transport van gasses up before driving him to prison.

[–] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

Often you'll realize good is done by the root of evil. The root of evil is our want, for in that wanting we induce suffering on ourselves or others. The hope is that our actions will be beyond us, constructive.

What a vile and wicked man.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 99 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine this psychopath getting less than Luigi...

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

As Hemphill got to know the women, he convinced them to confide their past sexual traumas, which he then deliberately reenacted as he assaulted them, Curzer said. He took advantage of some victims’ inexperience, the prosecutor said, or crossed boundaries that victims had clearly articulated.

Interesting that you bring up Luigi...

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago

Yeah, because he's the benchmark now. He (allegedly) killed 1 person and they want to convict him as the worlds greatest terrorist, parading him around like he's worst of the worst. And then here we have a serial abuser who was torturing hundreds of women for years.

[–] skvlp@lemm.ee 48 points 1 day ago

He’s deliberately being as vile as possible. He’s truly is filth.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Just checking, does the U.S. perform executions for non-capital crimes?

[–] keckbug@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago

Well, very technically, theres no such thing as (formal) executions for non-capital crimes. If there were, they’d be called capital crimes.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 108 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Trump administration material for sure.

[–] thyristor@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can already smell a pardon coming up.

[–] albert180@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They can only pardon federal crimes

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

Don't forget that they don't give a shit.

[–] VeryInterestingTable@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Believe it or not. Also pardoned. /s

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 22 hours ago

You had me at the first quarter of that headline

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LMFAO

He couldn't hire an attorney for his case and ended up with a public defender. Turns out THERE ARE some things you can't buy.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 12 points 22 hours ago

I wonder if this is a plan to get his likely conviction overturned at a later date for "ineffective counsel"

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

American Psycho

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 77 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I imagine most people in Private equity are like this.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 13 points 19 hours ago

I knew a lawyer who thought he was working too hard, tried investment advising for a few months and returned to practicing law because he said it's more honest.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

I imagine a lot of them sleep 4 hours a night and do cocaine before staring at a computer screen while squiggly lines go up and down. And then they meet with the CEOs of a few competing companies and advise them to all raise prices at the same time.

[–] jellygoose@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 20 hours ago

Don't legitimize Trumps illegal deportations.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 20 hours ago

Where they'll hire him as a consultant.

[–] bomberesque1@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago

Nice cross dude

I can't help feeling that there's a message there

[–] ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 day ago

Man there truly are villians out there.

[–] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is he a good or bad guy by modern USA standards? Sorry, everything is changing so fast there...

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure MAGAs are calling for him to become the new pope

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can we skip all the trial and investigation part up to were the cunt pardons him? The outcome will be the same, but you'll save some taxpayers money.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Presidential pardon power only hits federal crimes, not state.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago

I don't think Trump can pardon these charges because they're from the Manhatten DA's office.