Two charged in sex for debt payoff case

Russell Bileci owed Maurice Williams $100. How police said they decided to settle the debt could cost both men long prison terms.

Investigators said on Friday that Bileci said he would repay the debt by allowing Williams to have sex with his 46-year-old girlfriend in the downtown residential hotel in Oakland where they all lived.

The woman, who was asleep when the deal was made, knew nothing about the agreement, and investigators said Bileci sat silently in their room while she was sexually assaulted for at least a half-hour before she was rescued by police who arrested the two men.

Bileci, 47, and Williams, 49, are now each charged with eight felony counts that could lead to more than 30-year prison terms if they are convicted of all counts. Even though Bileci did not have sex with the woman during the attack some of the counts filed against him by Senior Deputy District Attorney Kim Hunter are "in concert" with sex crimes since authorities said he set up the encounter and did nothing to stop the assault.

Williams is charged with two counts of rape, four counts of oral copulation and two counts of sodomy.

Bileci is charged with "in concert" counts of rape, two counts of oral copulation, sodomy and four other counts of pandering.