An assistant principal at a Queens public elementary college lived a double life as a pimp –providing purchasers intercourse with a Los Angeles-based girl for $2,000 an hour, federal prosecutors stated.
Bond Ng, 47, a prime administrator at PS 16 in Corona, was arrested Sunday on expenses of coercing interstate prostitution for allegedly establishing paid sexual encounters between the girl and johns way back to 2011 — and as lately as December inside a luxe Lengthy Island Metropolis high-rise.
The assistant principal, who had made round $173,000 a yr, posed as the girl in flirty texts despatched to potential purchasers, in response to textual content messages obtained by federal human trafficking investigators.
“My charge is 2k love,” Ng texted one john, court docket papers confirmed.
Ng additionally advised a shopper to deposit cash in a Zelle account bearing his identify, a criticism alleged.
The accused principal-turned-pimp was launched on a $150,000 bond after showing in Brooklyn federal court docket Tuesday — the place prosecutors alleged that he “groomed” the girl, who had been “inexperienced at prostitution” earlier than they met.
Ng was “extra coercive than we initially thought,” Assistant US Legal professional Daniel Amzallag advised the court docket, as Ng sat on the protection desk carrying an unassuming argyle sweater over a white button-down shirt.
Prosecutors imagine that Ng was half of a bigger prostitution scheme, Amzallag added, citing Ng’s in depth journey lately to Medellin and Cartagena, Colombia — identified intercourse trafficking hotbeds.
The federal government additionally has proof that Ng had conversations with three totally different girls who labored at unidentified therapeutic massage parlors, the prosecutor stated.
A handbook launched by PS 16 firstly of the varsity yr identifies Ng as an assistant principal supervising “testing, college security and know-how.”
Ng’s launch situations name for him to steer clear of PS 16, and to not depart New York Metropolis along with his case pending. It was not instantly clear Tuesday afternoon whether or not Ng has been fired or suspended within the meantime, or if he would proceed to obtain his taxpayer-funded wage.
New York Metropolis Training Division spokeswoman Isla Gething declined to remark, saying solely, “We refer you to federal authorities on this.”
After arriving on a world flight from Cartagena Friday, Ng was “flagged” for extra questioning by Homeland Safety brokers at JFK Airport, court docket papers stated.
In a voluntary interview, he allegedly tried to downplay his relationship with the girl in LA by claiming he was her “supervisor.” He added that she carried out “pornographic movies” and that he helped coordinate conferences between her and her “followers” at his Queens condominium and elsewhere, in response to the feds.
However brokers who searched Ng’s two cellphones along with his consent found a trove of texts between him and the girl, and correspondence with the supposed “followers” making it clear that he’d been providing to pimp out the girl, court docket papers claimed.
The alleged sexual encounters had been occurring as lately as Dec. 29, 2025, when Ng advised a john to ask for a lady in “condominium 9C” at 2 Jackson Park, a fancy glass tower condominium complicated in Lengthy Island Metropolis with views of the Manhattan skyline, the criticism alleged.
“Thanks for letting me use your condominium,” the girl texted Ng the following day, court docket papers confirmed.
Ng’s sister, a venture supervisor who makes $130,000 yearly, posted his bond after showing in court docket in help of him on Tuesday. Ng may also put on a GPS monitor as his case winds on.
Ng declined to touch upon the case on his manner out of the courthouse.
