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Former Citigroup Executive Drugged, Raped and Secretly Filmed Unconscious Women, Sentenced to 30 Years
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Edward Gene Smith pleaded guilty to drugging and sexually assaulting women, while also receiving child pornography, according to New York authorities.
“Edward Gene Smith is a sexual predator and a serial rapist,” U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said in a press release.
Smith, a former Citigroup managing director, targeted women who were significantly younger, according to a superseding indictment obtained by Oxygen.com.
“There is something particularly traumatic about being raped by someone a victim knows and had even liked or trusted,” Smith wrote, according to the AP.
Smith wrote that he wanted to be seen as a person who has “long put his errors behind him,” adding, “The man I used to be embarrasses me.