The Manhattan District Lawyer’s workplace needs to grab greater than $111,000 from a sicko constructing tremendous who repeatedly raped a maid — together with $11,000 in money he stored in a piggy financial institution in his Flatiron condominium.
Jose Espinoza was convicted in December of rape, labor trafficking and different expenses and sentenced to 22 years in state jail for the years-long scheme.
Espinoza, 62, met the unlawful migrant from Paraguay in August 2017 and employed her to wash residences within the West sixteenth Road constructing the place he labored as an excellent, in change for intercourse.
However when she needed to finish the association a yr later, Espinoza beat her, took her passport, tracked her and stole her earnings, authorities mentioned.
He pressured the maid to open a joint checking account and between 2020 and 2024, when he was arrested, stored greater than $100,000 of her earnings “and used [it] for his profit and that of his members of the family,” the DA’s workplace mentioned in Manhattan Supreme Court docket papers searching for the cash.
Espinoza stuffed money the sufferer earned right into a piggy financial institution he stored in a rear bed room of his condominium, and “stored a hoop digicam on the piggy financial institution so he may … guarantee his management over it,” prosecutors mentioned in court docket papers.
The tremendous, who as soon as blackmailed the middle-aged maid into silence by demanding bare footage of her particular wants little one after which threatening to share them, additionally pressured her to have intercourse with him in entrance of her child.
The torment resulted in 2022 when the sufferer was present process remedy for breast most cancers and instructed a social employee of her ordeal.
Lawyer Joseph Caldarera, who reps Espinoza and declined touch upon the forfeiture, mentioned he plans to attraction his shopper’s conviction.
