A former Citigroup executive has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison after admitting he drugged women, sexually assaulted them, and secretly recorded the abuse for nearly a decade. Edward Gene Smith, 50, was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan federal court after pleading guilty to multiple federal offences, including drugging women to facilitate sexual assault, child sexual abuse material offences, drug crimes, and obstruction of justice.
A Harvard graduate, Smith admitted to drugging women to facilitate sexual assaults and receiving child sexual abuse material. The 30-year prison term is the maximum sentence prosecutors agreed to pursue under Smith's plea agreement, letting him avoid a trial that could have resulted in an 80-year sentence.
