Prosecutors accused him of using physical violence and threats of criminal legal action to extort payments.
Prosecutors accused Lawrence Ray, 62, of using physical violence and threats of criminal legal action to extort payments from students between 2010 and 2020 at Sarah Lawrence, a private college located north of New York City. Ray moved into his daughter’s dormitory room at the college in 2010, prosecutors said.
Ray was arrested in 2020 and pleaded not guilty to charges including extortion, forced labour, sex trafficking and money laundering. His conviction came after a month-long trial in Manhattan federal court in which several victims testified. Prosecutors said Ray forced one female victim to engage in commercial sex acts and pay him more than $500,000 of her proceeds from prostitution. Ray collected sexually explicit photographs of her and once nearly suffocated her in order to coerce her into performing the acts, prosecutors said.
He also used psychological and physical abuse to coerce three other female victims to perform unpaid labour, prosecutors said. “Larry Ray is a predator. An evil man who did evil things. Today’s verdict finally brings him to justice,” Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement.
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