Well-known New York financier Michael Olson’s neighbor is coming forward to relate how he used to see a young girl outside the Olson apartment. The neighbor said she was always friendly and looked to be 11 or 12 years old. Since she was friendly, he thought nothing of it until Olson was arrested and indicted last week was indicted on 17 criminal counts that included his alleged sexual abuse of the teen he is accused of grooming through Instagram.
It wasn’t clear if the young girl the neighbor saw with the couple was the same girl Olson’s accused of raping at hotels across the city. Prosecutors said Olson targeted vunerable Asian girls who wrote on social media about money troubles or self-harm. The young girl the neighbor described is also of Asian descent.
Olson first contacted his 14-year-old accuser in December 2022 when she posted on Instagram about struggling to afford clothes, according to the indictment.
He allegedly raped her multiple times, including a handful of dates between April and May 2023, in exchange for $700 a week.
Authorities learned of Olson’s alleged activities May 26, when the victim overdosed on a lethal cocktail of cocaine and ketamine in a Manhattan hotel room.
Dwight Mortgage Trust, Olson’s employer, fired him on the day he was indicted.
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