Dorm devil had sick vic stash: feds
A creepy sex cult leader kept a polygraph machine in the New Jersey home where he is accused of manipulating Sarah Lawrence College students, a prosecutor revealed Tuesday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lindsey Keenan shared new details about evidence found at Lawrence Ray’s residence in Piscataway, N.J., following his arrest earlier this month.
Investigators found around 40 journals, 44 hard drives, 37 cell phones, three cameras, 27 memory cards, around 15 floppy discs, seven recording devices, 15 flash drives, around 70 CDs — and a polygraph machine, Keenan said.
Ray, 60, is accused of extorting Sarah Lawrence College students he met through his daughter beginning in 2010. He allegedly maintained a stash of compromising information on his victims to keep them in his perverted orbit. He subjected victims to sexual and psychological manipulation and physical abuse, prosecutors say.
“Ray’s tactics included sleep deprivation, psychological and sexual humiliation, verbal abuse, threats of physical violence, physical violence, threats of criminal legal action, alienating the victims from their families, and exploiting the victims’ mental health vulnerabilities,” authorities said.
Ray served as best man at the wedding for former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik. Ray’s attorney, Marne Lenox, asked that Judge Lewis Liman order he receive treatment for diabetes behind bars. She vaguely alluded to other medical issues, but declined to go into specifics. As the attorney discussed Ray’s health in Manhattan Federal Court he stared down, bizarrely contorting his jaw.
Also on Monday, New York magazine reported that Ray took over the Piscataway home by manipulating its alcoholic owner. One of Ray’s victims reportedly did yard work there naked and he frequently made bizarre renovations that resulted in property fines. The magazine’s exposé last year sparked the feds’ investigation.
A worker at a Milwaukee brewery shot five co-workers dead before killing himself Wednesday, authorities said.
The shooting sent the sprawling Molson Coors beer factory on the city’s west side into lockdown and generated a furious response from police and first responders.
Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales identified the shooter as a 51-year-old Milwaukee man. The names of the attacker and his victims were not immediately released by officials.
“This is a tragic day for our city,” Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett told reporters. “This is a tragic day for our state.”
Milwaukee police raced to