( September 14, 2026, 9:19 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a New York federal judge’s award of nearly $5 million in attorney fees to six women who prevailed on Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) claims against bond trader Howard Rubin, holding that the judge reasonably used a case-specific lodestar analysis and acted within his broad discretion in setting above-usual local rates and trimming the claimed hours by 15%....