Sarah Lawrence Parent Accused of Sex Trafficking and Abusing Students

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8. More articles about him and connection to Bernie Kerick

A New York con man and old friend of disgraced ex-NYPD top cop Bernie Kerik became the ringleader of a Nxivm-like cult at Sarah Lawrence College — brainwashing his daughter and her friends into following his so-called teachings, while taking advantage of them sexually and emotionally, according to a New York Magazine expose.

Bay Ridge-born Lawrence Ray, 59, who was convicted of securities fraud in 2003, reportedly manipulated the bright college kids into following his so-called self-improvement program, controlling every aspect of their lives and convincing them to give him money and sex.

Some of the students were able to escape the cult, but others remain under Ray’s spell, according to the report.

The alleged con began in 2010 when Ray moved in with his daughter, Talia, and her 19-year-old friends in a drab dorm on the Bronxville campus and in an Upper East Side apartment he rented during school breaks. He had just been released from prison after being locked up for violating his parole in the 2003 case, the article says.

https://nypost.com/2019/04/28/con-became-nxivm-like-cult-leader-at-sarah-lawrence-college-report/

There's a story about this in "The Cut";

https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence-students.html