Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries is facing one count of sex trafficking and 15 counts of interstate prostitution.
Attorneys for former Abercrombie & Fitch chief executive officer Mike Jeffries have filed an unopposed motion to determine his competency to stand trial.
Jeffries’ romantic partner, Matthew Smith, faces similar charges, as does an alleged middleman James Jacobson, who is said to have recruited men to attend, where some have alleged they were forced to engage in commercial sex with Jeffries and Smith. Both men also pled not guilty at their arraignments.
“The Michael Jeffries who presented himself did not even come close to resembling a master’s degree-educated individual, who was just nine years earlier the chief executive officer of a publicly traded company,” they said.A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York had no comment on the filing Monday.
The two lawyers attested that they questioned his “competency to rationally assist — on a sustained and consistent basis — counsel in connection with the possible factual and legal defenses to the allegations he was facing. As a result of that concern, the undersigned encouraged Mr. Jeffries to seek a neuropsychological evaluation and mental health therapy, if necessary.”
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