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Famed lawyer Sanford Rubenstein accused of sexually assaulting woman after Al Sharpton's birthday bash
The high-powered attorney, who has been front and center in many of the city's police brutality cases, allegedly assaulted a 42-year-old business executive, police sources told the Daily News. The alleged victim is a 'top official' at Sharpton’s National Action Network, according to sources and the civil rights advocacy group. The alleged incident took place Wednesday at Rubenstein's swanky E. 64th St. apartment.
Sanford Rubenstein needs a lawyer.
The high-powered attorney has been accused of raping a woman at his Manhattan home following the Rev. Al Sharpton’s 60th birthday bash on Wednesday, the Daily News has learned.
The alleged incident, first reported at NYDailyNews.com, took place at Rubenstein’s swanky E. 64th St. apartment hours after Sharpton’s star-studded party at the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan, law enforcement sources told The News.
The alleged victim is a 42-year-old business executive and a “top official” at Sharpton’s National Action Network, according to sources and the civil rights advocacy group.
The accusation is being investigated by the NYPD as a third-degree rape, a law enforcement source said. Such a charge is brought in a case in which a victim is “incapable of consent,” suggesting that the woman may have been intoxicated or passed out during the alleged encounter.
Reached on Saturday night, Rubenstein, 70, declined to comment. He has not been charged.
“Sanford Rubenstein vehemently denies any misconduct,” said his lawyer, Michael Ross.
The alleged victim could not be reached.
In a statement, Sharpton’s National Action Network, or NAN, sought to distance itself from the allegation.
“The allegations as reported occurred at a private residence after a NAN event and had nothing to do with NAN nor Rev. Al Sharpton, therefore we have no comment at this time,” the statement read.
Among the bold-faced names at Sharpton’s soirée were Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo, director Spike Lee and legendary singer Aretha Franklin.
That Rubenstein attended the bash was no surprise; he and Sharpton have been buddy-buddy for nearly 20 years.
Their alliance was formed in 1997 when Rubenstein was handling the civil case for Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was sodomized with a broom handle by a gang of cops inside a Brooklyn precinct house.
Rubenstein, in a self-published 2010 memoir, described how he became Sharpton’s go-to legal eagle. When one of Rubenstein’s associates suggested Sharpton be invited to a rally for Louima, Rubenstein initially balked.
“I’d never met Sharpton; all I really knew about him was what I’d learned from the media, which had generally portrayed him as a controversial figure — maybe too controversial, to my thinking,” Rubenstein wrote in the memoir, titled “The Outrageous Rubenstein.”
The high-powered attorney, who has been front and center in many of the city's police brutality cases, allegedly assaulted a 42-year-old business executive, police sources told the Daily News. The alleged victim is a 'top official' at Sharpton’s National Action Network, according to sources and the civil rights advocacy group. The alleged incident took place Wednesday at Rubenstein's swanky E. 64th St. apartment.
Sanford Rubenstein needs a lawyer.
The high-powered attorney has been accused of raping a woman at his Manhattan home following the Rev. Al Sharpton’s 60th birthday bash on Wednesday, the Daily News has learned.
The alleged incident, first reported at NYDailyNews.com, took place at Rubenstein’s swanky E. 64th St. apartment hours after Sharpton’s star-studded party at the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan, law enforcement sources told The News.
The alleged victim is a 42-year-old business executive and a “top official” at Sharpton’s National Action Network, according to sources and the civil rights advocacy group.
The accusation is being investigated by the NYPD as a third-degree rape, a law enforcement source said. Such a charge is brought in a case in which a victim is “incapable of consent,” suggesting that the woman may have been intoxicated or passed out during the alleged encounter.
Reached on Saturday night, Rubenstein, 70, declined to comment. He has not been charged.
“Sanford Rubenstein vehemently denies any misconduct,” said his lawyer, Michael Ross.
The alleged victim could not be reached.
In a statement, Sharpton’s National Action Network, or NAN, sought to distance itself from the allegation.
“The allegations as reported occurred at a private residence after a NAN event and had nothing to do with NAN nor Rev. Al Sharpton, therefore we have no comment at this time,” the statement read.
Among the bold-faced names at Sharpton’s soirée were Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo, director Spike Lee and legendary singer Aretha Franklin.
That Rubenstein attended the bash was no surprise; he and Sharpton have been buddy-buddy for nearly 20 years.
Their alliance was formed in 1997 when Rubenstein was handling the civil case for Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was sodomized with a broom handle by a gang of cops inside a Brooklyn precinct house.
Rubenstein, in a self-published 2010 memoir, described how he became Sharpton’s go-to legal eagle. When one of Rubenstein’s associates suggested Sharpton be invited to a rally for Louima, Rubenstein initially balked.
“I’d never met Sharpton; all I really knew about him was what I’d learned from the media, which had generally portrayed him as a controversial figure — maybe too controversial, to my thinking,” Rubenstein wrote in the memoir, titled “The Outrageous Rubenstein.”
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