Overview
- A Manhattan federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging Jason Khan with sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion based on alleged attacks between 2019 and 2021.
- Prosecutors say Khan ran the website FootPadNYC.com and placed ads promising paid 'foot model' work to arrange hotel-room interviews that investigators allege became settings for sexual assaults.
- At least three women reported assaults to law enforcement, two completed hospital rape kits, and prosecutors say each victim expressed lack of consent that Khan ignored.
- Khan was arrested in the Northern District of New York after a joint SDNY, FBI and NYPD investigation and faces a statutory minimum of 15 years in prison for each count.
- Prosecutors and NYPD officials urged anyone with information or additional victims to come forward as the SDNY continues the investigation and the case moves through federal court.