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An assistant principal at a Queens public elementary school lived a double life as a pimp –offering clients sex with a Los Angeles-based woman for $2,000 an hour, federal prosecutors said.
Bond Ng, 47, a top administrator at PS 16 in Corona, was arrested Sunday on charges of coercing interstate prostitution for allegedly setting up paid sexual encounters between the woman and johns as far back as 2011 — and as recently as December inside a luxe Long Island City high-rise.
The assistant principal, who had made around $173,000 a year, posed as the woman in flirty texts sent to potential clients, according to text messages obtained by federal human trafficking investigators.
“My rate is 2k love,” Ng texted one john, court papers showed.
Ng also told a client to deposit money in a Zelle account bearing his name, a complaint alleged.
The accused principal-turned-pimp was released on a $150,000 bond after appearing in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday — where prosecutors alleged that he “groomed” the woman, who had been “inexperienced at prostitution” before they met.
Ng was “more coercive than we originally thought,” Assistant US Attorney Daniel Amzallag told the court, as Ng sat at the defense table wearing an unassuming argyle sweater over a white button-down shirt.
Prosecutors believe that Ng was part of a larger prostitution scheme, Amzallag added, citing Ng’s extensive travel in recent years to Medellin and Cartagena, Colombia — known sex trafficking hotbeds.
The government also has evidence that Ng had conversations with three different women who worked at unidentified massage parlors, the prosecutor said.
A handbook released by PS 16 at the start of the school year identifies Ng as an assistant principal supervising “testing, school safety and technology.”
Ng’s release conditions call for him to stay away from PS 16, and to not leave New York City with his case pending. It was not immediately clear Tuesday afternoon whether Ng has been fired or suspended in the meantime, or if he would continue to receive his taxpayer-funded salary.
New York City Education Department spokeswoman Isla Gething declined to comment, saying only, “We refer you to federal authorities on this.”
After arriving on an international flight from Cartagena Friday, Ng was “flagged” for additional questioning by Homeland Security agents at JFK Airport, court papers said.
In a voluntary interview, he allegedly tried to downplay his relationship with the woman in LA by claiming he was her “manager.” He added that she performed “pornographic videos” and that he helped coordinate meetings between her and her “fans” at his Queens apartment and elsewhere, according to the feds.
But agents who searched Ng’s two cellphones with his consent discovered a trove of texts between him and the woman, and correspondence with the supposed “fans” making it clear that he’d been offering to pimp out the woman, court papers claimed.
The alleged sexual encounters had been happening as recently as Dec. 29, 2025, when Ng told a john to ask for a woman in “apartment 9C” at 2 Jackson Park, a posh glass tower apartment complex in Long Island City with views of the Manhattan skyline, the complaint alleged.
“Thank you for letting me use your apartment,” the woman texted Ng the next day, court papers showed.
Ng’s sister, a project manager who makes $130,000 annually, posted his bond after appearing in court in support of him on Tuesday. Ng will also wear a GPS monitor as his case winds on.
Ng declined to comment on the case on his way out of the courthouse.
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