A news release says that Antoine searched on Google for "rape by deception," "rape by deception Kansas," and "Illegal to trick girls into sleeping with you." He's said to have looked at law journals to investigate the criminal aspects of rape by fraud or deception.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says he promised to pay tens of thousands of dollars when victims agreed to contracts where they performed for modeling shoots and engaged in sexual activity, which he shot and recorded, but then never paid them. When they complained about the non-payments, he's accused of sending lewd images of the victims to their employers and significant others.
He's also accused of forging and falsifying documents, including tax forms and checks made out to other models, to make his operation appear real. The federal indictment says he would communicate with prospective victims online while using an alias, and used pictures of other victims that he shot as proof of legitimate photo shoots.
In one case where a victim wasn't paid for shoots between 2011 and 2012, he told the victim she could either pay him $9,000 in exchange for not selling or distributing the images, or she could have sex with him. The news release says the victim had sex with him in order to keep him from releasing the images.