Manhattan prosecutors say a private equity executive turned his New York City apartment into a torture chamber of “grotesque sexual violence.”

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.

  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    47·
    19 hours ago

    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
      22·
      13 hours ago

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

    • Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.world
      9·
      14 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.orgEnglish
      12·
      19 hours 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.

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
    37·
    20 hours ago

    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
      11·
      13 hours ago

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

    • obvs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      632·
      23 hours ago

      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…

        • keckbug@lemmy.world
          14·
          13 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.

      • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
        28·
        20 hours 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
        47·
        22 hours ago

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

    • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      7 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.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      11·
      10 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.

  • Mooseford@lemmy.todayEnglish
    21·
    11 hours ago

    Ah yes, wearing a rosary. It all tracks. Incoming Trump pardon in 5…4…3…

  • Lembot_0002@lemm.ee
    173·
    22 hours ago

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