Mike Jeffries, former chief govt officer of Abercrombie & Fitch Co., pleaded not responsible to at least one depend of intercourse trafficking and 15 counts of interstate prostitution Friday afternoon on the federal courthouse in Central Islip, N.Y.
He appeared earlier than U.S. Justice of the Peace Steven Tiscione for the arraignment, in a crammed courtroom that included his son and his spouse. Jeffries is now confined to his houses in New York Metropolis, Lengthy Island and Florida.
His subsequent trial date is about for Dec. 12.
Jeffries was arrested earlier this week and launched on a $10 million bond.
Jeffries, 80, who exited the highest job at Abercrombie & Fitch in 2014 after a 22-year run, is accused of getting orchestrated a intercourse trafficking and prostitution enterprise that concerned hiring dozens of males and transporting them all over the world.
On Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. legal professional’s workplace of the Jap District of New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York Police Division held a press convention detailing the arrests and fees in Brooklyn. James Jacobson, who’s alleged to be a intermediary, faces the identical fees.
Mapping out the indictment, Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional of the Jap District of New York, alleged that the sexual trafficking and prostitution enterprise lasted a minimum of from the tip of 2008 till early 2015. Jeffries was stated to have spent “thousands and thousands of {dollars} on a large infrastructure” to assist it and “a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars} in money for business intercourse,” in addition to cash for journey, resort rooms and a safety firm, Peace stated.
Fifteen John Does are named within the indictment that was revealed throughout Tuesday’s press convention.