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An ex-financier and his personal assistant used PayPal and, to a lesser extent, wires, cash and other peer-to-peer platforms to pay women that he allegedly imprisoned and sexually abused in his penthouse in Midtown Manhattan, civil and criminal complaints in Brooklyn allege. A 17-page indictment unsealed in the Eastern District of New York on Sept. 26 accuses Howard Rubin, a retired investment adviser who held senior positions at Merrill Lynch, Soros Fund Management and other brand-name firms, of raping and torturing at least 10 women at various times from 2009 until at least 2019, and attempting to buy their silence...