Felicia Rosario is escorted to the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse by federal brokers Tuesday as she begins her testimony.
Alec Tabak
Accused Sarah Lawrence intercourse cult chief Larry Ray, his alleged cohort and one in every of his victims donated cash he earned via his felony enterprise to a Democratic politician in North Carolina, a witness testified Tuesday.
Alleged sufferer Felicia Rosario, 39, whom Ray thought of his “spouse,” testified in Manhattan federal courtroom that he would switch cash into her checking account throughout their relationship, which spanned a few decade from 2011 to 2020.
A few of the cash she wired to Ray’s daughter, Talia, who in 2018 labored as a marketing campaign supervisor for a Democratic politician in North Carolina, Rosario testified.
Along with the wire transfers, Rosario, Ray and his alleged cohort, Isabella Pollok, donated to the marketing campaign Talia labored for, she testified.
“What monetary help, if any, did you present?” federal prosecutor Mollie Bracewell requested Rosario concerning the marketing campaign Talia labored for.
“We donated to the marketing campaign,” Rosario responded, including that they used “ActBlue” software program to make the donations.
The politician Talia labored for was not named in courtroom Tuesday, however a LinkedIn web page for Talia states she was the marketing campaign supervisor for State Home candidate Lowell Simon.
Simon didn't return a voicemail left by The Submit. Talia has not been charged with a criminal offense.
In accordance with information revealed by OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks marketing campaign contributions, Rosario made two $2,600 donations to Simon’s marketing campaign in 2018 and one other two to the North Carolina Democratic Social gathering that totaled $10,500 that very same 12 months.
Information revealed by OpenSecrets additionally reveals that Pollok made two $2,600 donation to Simon in 2018 and one $5,200 donation to the North Carolina Democratic Social gathering that very same 12 months.
Pollok additionally made a single $13 donation to former Florida Democratic politician Andrew Gillum, who ran for governor of the Sunshine State in 2018, in response to the data.
Whereas prosecutors didn't particularly say how the donations relate to the case towards Ray, the costs towards him embody cash laundering and tax evasion.
Earlier in her testimony Tuesday, Rosario described seeing Ray and Pollok the morning after they allegedly spent an evening torturing sufferer Claudia Drury at a Manhattan resort room.
“They have been playful,” she stated. “They have been speaking about how properly the night time had gone. They talked about how they actually obtained her this time.”
In October 2018, Ray and Pollok allegedly confronted Drury, whom that they had allegedly pressured into prostitution, ordered her to strip bare, handcuffed her to a chair and suffocated her with a plastic bag, she testified final week.
Throughout the seven-hour-long torture session, Ray and Pollok stopped and ate burgers that they had ordered from a close-by diner, Drury testified.
After they returned to the New Jersey house the place they lived with Rosario, Ray and Pollok have been “pleased” as they described the sadistic abuse, Rosario stated Tuesday.
Ray is charged in a 17-count indictment with racketeering, intercourse trafficking and a number of different crimes. He faces a most sentence of life in jail if convicted on all counts.
Pollok has additionally been charged for her alleged position within the enterprise and has pleaded not responsible.
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