CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Matthew Smith, the associate of former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries, was launched on $10 million bond Tuesday of their intercourse trafficking case with situations together with dwelling detention and GPS monitoring.
Smith, 61, pleaded not responsible to intercourse trafficking and prostitution prices in a federal court docket on New York’s Long Island.
Smith was arrested Oct. 22 together with Jeffries and a 3rd man, James Jacobson, on prices of luring males into drug-fueled intercourse events by dangling the promise of modeling jobs with the trend-setting retailer.
Prosecutors mentioned in court docket papers that the lads had been induced by “pressure, fraud and coercion” to have interaction in intercourse events between 2008 and 2015 through which they had been typically directed to put on costumes and endure painful erection-inducing injections.
Jeffries and Jacobson have pleaded not responsible and had been beforehand launched on bond. But Smith, a twin U.S.- British citizen, was initially detained after prosecutors raised considerations that he may flee the nation.
Under the phrases of the bail settlement, Smith will flip over his passport and he and Jeffries shall be restricted to $125,000 in month-to-month withdrawals from a belief arrange for his or her profit.
Smith’s legal professional, Joseph Nascimento, mentioned his shopper is completely satisfied that prosecutors agreed to bail situations “that can enable Mr. Smith to answer these allegations in court docket whereas on dwelling confinement.”
Jeffries took over as CEO of Abercrombie in 1992 and led the corporate’s transformation right into a mainstay of early 2000s teen tradition.
Jeffries left Abercrombie in 2014, and the Ohio-based firm mentioned in a assertion posted on Instagram that it was “appalled and disgusted” by the allegations in opposition to him.
