Jun 14, 2008 1:23 pm US/Eastern
Report: Fake Firefighter Threatens Homicide
Braunstein In Jail For Sexually Abusing Co-Worker
NEW YORK (AP) ―
The former fashion writer convicted of sexually tormenting a co-worker while dressed as a firefighter said he'd go on a homicidal rampage if released from an Ohio prison.
Peter Braunstein told the New York Daily News in a jailhouse interview that he has "no desire" for rehabilitation.
There's little chance the former Women's Wear Daily writer will leave a Cincinnati jail anytime soon. New charges there could keep him behind bars for an extra two decades.
Last year, Braunstein was sentenced to 20 years in prison for robbery, burglary and sexual abuse, and 18 years to life in prison on a kidnapping conviction.
Authorities said Braunstein set off smoke bombs in the hallway outside the victim's Manhattan apartment on Halloween night 2005 as a ruse to get into her home. He then drugged her, tied her to a bed, stripped her naked, and over the next 13 hours videotaped and molested her.
The 44-year-old is also accused of robbing a Cincinnati doctor at gunpoint and tying him up in his office while on the run from New York police.
Braunstein told the News that if he ever got out of prison he'd likely go "on some insane homicidal rampage," targeting enemies in the fashion world.
"I would have no desire to try to rehabilitate myself and go back to being a guy with a job and meeting girls and having friends," he said. "I'm not interested in that whatsoever."
Until April 29, Braunstein was imprisoned at the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
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