Westchester Sex Cult Client List Accidentally Released: Report

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — The trial of accused human trafficker Lawrence Grecco is already sending shock waves through high society in New York City and the Hudson Valley after the Department of Justice accidentally released a client list for what prosecutors say was a prolific sex slave ring started in the dorm room of Sarah Lawrence College.

Grecco, aka Larry Ray, is accused by federal prosecutors of sex trafficking, forced labor and extortion that occurred in New York and North Carolina over a ten-year period, beginning in 2010. Federal authorities said the man targeted his daughter's friends and subjected them to physical abuse and sexual and psychological manipulation.

Ray lived with some of the victims in his daughter's Sarah Lawrence dormitory and afterwards in an Upper East Side apartment and in North Carolina, according to court documents.

He used physical and psychological threats and coercion to indoctrinate and exploit the college students, according to federal investigators.

Prosecutors said he extorted nearly $1 million from five of the victims, forced them to perform unpaid labor through force, fraud and coercion. He is also accused of coercing at least one victim to engage in prostitution.

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Now, the Daily Mail reports that a list of alleged clients of the student prostitute in the Sarah Lawrence 'sex cult' case was inadvertently published online.

According to the newspaper, the list, which was entered into evidence under seal in Ray's trial, includes "lawyers and businessmen and socialites throughout the Tri-state area."

The Daily Mail managed to grab a copy of the list of 121 names which was taken down almost immediately, but the damage had already been done. In addition to the newspaper capturing the since-deleted client list, the list of names has also been widely shared on Twitter and other social media platforms.

The list is said to have been compiled and included in an email by former Sarah Lawrence student Claudia Drury, 31, who has been testifying against Ray, who she claims coerced her into becoming a prostitute, according to the report.

"This file was inadvertently loaded to the U.S. v. Ray file share," Justice Department officials wrote shortly after the document was removed. "Please do not reproduce, share, or use this exhibit in any way, if you have downloaded this file, please delete it."

In 2010, prosecutors said Ray moved into on-campus housing with his daughter and her male and female roommates at Sarah Lawrence College. He presented himself as a "father figure" and subjected them and other victims to sexual and psychological manipulation and physical abuse.

His tactics included sleep deprivation, psychological and sexual humiliation, verbal abuse, threats of physical violence, actual physical violence, threats of criminal legal actions, alienating the victims from their families and exploiting the victims' mental health vulnerabilities.

The manipulation allowed Ray to get false confessions from seven of the victims that they caused damage to him and his family and associates. He then extorted payment for those false damages.

Authorities said the victims made payments to Ray by draining their parents' savings, opening lines of credit, selling real estate ownership and, at Ray's direction, performing unpaid labor and earning money through prostitution.

Prosecutors said Ray forced one student to engage in commercial sex acts to pay damages to him that she did not actually owe.

Beginning when she was just a college student, she was groomed by Ray and he collected sexually explicit photos and other personal information which he then used to coerce her into prostitution, investigators said. He is also accused of using physical violence, tying her to a chair, placing a plastic bag over her head and nearly suffocating her, prosecutors said.

"Mr. Ray allegedly used his proximity to his victims to lay the groundwork for psychological conditioning, eventually leading several young adults to become unwitting victims of sexual exploitation, verbal and physical abuse, extortion, forced labor, and an egregious case of prostitution," FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. said. "For the better part of the last decade, we allege there was no limit to the abuse Ray's victims received, and there is no way of knowing the amount of damage he may have caused them in the years to come."

In total, Ray collected more than $500,000 in forced prostitution proceeds from this victim, according to the indictment.