A twisted Manhattan financier who preyed on teenage ladies fantasized about how he may get away with the sick abuse even after his arrest — prosecutors revealed Tuesday as he was sentenced to 16 years behind bars.
Journals Michael Olson stored following his launch on $1 million bond revealed his “hidden intent” to proceed terrorizing younger ladies, together with a 14-year-old lady he raped and fed medicine to till she overdosed, Manhattan prosecutors instructed the court docket.
Olson, 56, allegedly wrote that he “ought to have taken the 14-year-old to Mexico” as a result of he believed it will be simpler to get away with youngster marriage there.
“He brainstormed lists of concepts as to how he would proceed or would get away with these crimes sooner or later,” Assistant District Legal professional John Fuller mentioned.
The lists, which Olson titled “Life Targets,” included wicked concepts like getting his victims pretend IDs to defend the actual fact they had been underage and tossing out intercourse toys earlier than they had been found by investigators, Fuller alleged.
The deranged theories had been penned in simply the few weeks earlier than the financier was hit with dozens of further counts for persevering with to succeed in out to underage ladies on-line whereas he was out on bail.
“He ruminated on in search of out not solely the [14-year-old] sufferer… however quite a few different victims who had been all kids,” prosecutors mentioned.
The perv’s sinister scribblings had been revealed as prosecutors urged the decide to condemn him to the 15-year most of post-release supervision following his 16-year jail time period.
It was the newest sickening flip within the case in opposition to Olson, who was first charged with luring the 14-year-old lady through social media and drugging and raping her in lodge rooms round New York Metropolis on a weekly foundation beginning in December 2022.
The previous financier labored for Dwight Mortgage Belief, an actual property oriented funding agency, earlier than he was arrested on Might 26, 2023, when the teenager overdosed in a Manhattan lodge room the place EMS staff discovered a number of medicine together with ketamine, cocaine and Xanax.
“There will be few issues extra horrifying for a father or mother than receiving a cellphone name that their 14-year-old daughter is at Bellevue after a drug overdose after which subsequently studying of [Olson’s] predatory conduct in opposition to her for months,” Fuller mentioned.
Olson’s protection legal professional, Jeffrey Lichtman, mentioned he thought a five-year minimal of post-release supervision would suffice for his consumer, who can be in his late 60s after serving out his sentence.
However Manhattan Supreme Court docket Justice Ann Scherzer imposed the prosecution’s 15-year post-release supervision ask after she expressed that she felt she couldn’t belief Olson, and that it was her “robust accountability to the group to verify there may be any person watching” him.
After he was arrested on the extra prices, Olson wrote a letter from behind bars to his household wherein he detailed his plan to get a lowered sentence at a remedy facility, prosecutors have mentioned.
The creep, who had been discovered unfit for trial in a ruling that was later reversed, wrote that he needed to be cautious to not “behave too usually” or he’d get despatched again to Rikers Island.
Prosecutors had been in search of a sentence of 25 years in jail earlier than Olson lower a deal in December.
He pleaded responsible to 9 counts of the appalling 76-count indictment, together with rape, felony sale of a managed substance and aggravated patronizing of a minor for prostitution.
The 14-year-old sufferer penned a brief impression assertion learn by prosecutors at Tuesday’s sentencing, wherein she mentioned she “longed for peace” after Olson robbed her of “issues [she] may by no means have again.”
The teenager first encountered the perv on Instagram after he replied to a publish she made about not having the ability to afford new garments.
Over the subsequent few months, Olson admitted he raped the lady on a number of events, paying her $700 every week in trade for intercourse, prosecutors have mentioned.
He additionally took the kid on journeys to Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Miami, pretending that she was his daughter whereas buying her boarding passes utilizing her first identify and his final identify, in accordance with the indictment.
“Michael Olson preyed on and abused 5 weak kids in lower than six months,” Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg mentioned in an announcement.
“My Workplace’s Human Trafficking Unit was laser-focused on guaranteeing accountability on this case for the total scope of his horrific conduct. My ideas are with the younger survivors as they proceed to heal.”
Olson declined to talk when given the possibility earlier than he was sentenced.
His legal professional mentioned outdoors the courtroom that Olson appears ahead to “getting previous his level in his life.”
“It’s a really extreme sentence, nevertheless it’s additionally a really severe crime,” Lichtman mentioned.
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