The previous CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch could have dementia and a competency listening to is required to evaluate whether or not he can face intercourse costs, defence legal professionals have mentioned.
Mike Jeffries, 80 and who was CEO of glitzy retailer Abercrombie & Fitch for greater than 20 years, is free on $10m (£7.7m) bond after pleading not responsible in October to federal intercourse trafficking and interstate prostitution costs.
Legal professionals for Jeffries mentioned in court docket papers unsealed on Monday in federal court docket in New York, {that a} neuropsychologist who examined the defendant in October concluded he possible has dementia with behavioural disturbance, Alzheimer’s illness and Lewy physique dementia.
The legal professionals wrote the neuropsychologist concluded that cognitive impairments, together with reminiscence loss, diminished consideration, processing velocity slowness, and ease of confusion means Jeffries wouldn’t be able to helping his attorneys.
In a joint letter to the choose, defence legal professionals and prosecutors prompt consultants who’ve evaluated Jeffries testify at a two-day competency listening to in June so {that a} ruling on competency can observe.
Prosecutors mentioned in October that 15 accusers have been induced by “force, fraud and coercion” to have interaction in drug-fuelled intercourse events wherein the boys have been typically directed to put on costumes, devour alcohol and muscle relaxants, use intercourse toys and endure painful erection-inducing penile injections.
They have been additionally required to signal non-disclosure agreements, the indictment mentioned.
The occasions befell between 2008 and 2015 within the Hamptons, the resort on Lengthy Island the place Jeffries has a house, in addition to at inns in England, France, Italy, Morocco and St Barts, based on the indictment.
