Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO arrested on federal sex trafficking charges

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries and 2 different men person been arrested connected enactment trafficking and interstate prostitution charges, a spokesperson for national prosecutors said Tuesday.

Details of the transgression charges weren’t instantly available. They travel aft years of intersexual misconduct allegations, made successful civilian lawsuits and the media, from young radical who said Jeffries lured them with promises of modelling enactment and past pressed them into enactment acts.

Jeffries’ lawyer, Brian Bieber, said by email helium would “respond successful item to the allegations aft the indictment is unsealed, and erstwhile appropriate, but program to bash truthful successful the courthouse — not the media.”

Information connected lawyers for the different defendants wasn’t instantly available.

Brooklyn-based U.S. Attorney Breon Peace and FBI and constabulary officials were acceptable to clasp a quality league aboriginal Tuesday.

Jeffries near the New Albany, Ohio-based institution Abercrombie & Fitch successful 2014.

One civilian suit filed successful New York past twelvemonth accused Abercrombie of allowing Jeffries to tally a sex-trafficking enactment during his 22-year tenure. It said that Jeffries had modelling scouts scouring the net for victims, and that immoderate prospective models became sex-trafficking victims.

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Abercrombie past twelvemonth said it had hired an extracurricular instrumentality steadfast to behaviour an autarkic probe aft a study connected akin allegations was aired by the BBC.

The BBC probe included a twelve men who described being astatine events involving enactment acts they said were staged by Jeffries and his partner, Matthew Smith, often astatine his location successful New York and hotels successful London, Paris and elsewhere.

When the civilian suit was filed successful New York past year, Bieber declined to remark connected the allegations.

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