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.

    • obvsEnglish
      672·
      8 months 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…

      • Skvlp@lemm.ee
        51·
        8 months ago

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

      • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
        32·
        8 months 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.

      • Komodo Rodeo
        6·
        8 months ago

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

        • keckbug
          16·
          8 months ago

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

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      16·
      8 months 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
      5·
      8 months 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.

  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    58·
    8 months 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
      30·
      8 months ago

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

    • sunflowercowboy@feddit.orgEnglish
      131·
      8 months 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.

    • Komodo Rodeo
      10·
      8 months 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.

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
    40·
    8 months 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
      15·
      8 months ago

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

    • IhaveCrabs111
      282·
      8 months ago

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

    • Stern
      28·
      8 months ago

      Presidential pardon power only hits federal crimes, not state.