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 saved in a piggy financial institution in his Flatiron residence.
Jose Espinoza was convicted in December of rape, labor trafficking and different fees 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 scrub residences within the West sixteenth Avenue constructing the place he labored as a brilliant, in alternate for intercourse.
However when she wished to finish the association a yr later, Espinoza beat her, took her passport, tracked her and stole her earnings, authorities stated.
He pressured the maid to open a joint checking account and between 2020 and 2024, when he was arrested, saved greater than $100,000 of her earnings “and used [it] for his profit and that of his relations,” the DA’s workplace stated in Manhattan Supreme Court docket papers in search of the cash.
Espinoza stuffed money the sufferer earned right into a piggy financial institution he saved in a rear bed room of his residence, and “saved a hoop digital camera on the piggy financial institution so he might … guarantee his management over it,” prosecutors stated 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 youngster after which threatening to share them, additionally pressured her to have intercourse with him in entrance of her child.
The torment led to 2022 when the sufferer was present process therapy for breast most cancers and informed a social employee of her ordeal.
Lawyer Joseph Caldarera, who reps Espinoza and declined touch upon the forfeiture, stated he plans to attraction his consumer’s conviction.
