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Married Citibank exec who drugged and raped young women and stashed 9,000 child porn images in his luxury NYC apartment is sentenced for depraved decade-long rampage
UK Daily Mail ^ | 07/28/2026 | Emma James

Posted on 07/28/2026 10:34:05 AM PDT by DFG

A married ex-Wall Street executive has been sentenced to 30 years after pleading guilty to drugging and raping multiple women in his upscale Manhattan apartment, keeping chilling planning notes to document his decade-long predatory rampage.

Edward Gene Smith, 50, admitted to attacking his victims at his luxury apartment opposite Central Park, as well as amassing a stash of more than 9,000 child sexual abuse images, as part of his twisted spree.

Prosecutors say the Harvard educated bigwig, who was most recently a Citigroup managing director, hid ‘behind the façade of a well-educated bank executive’ to prey on and lure in his young victims.

Smith, who has multiple stepchildren, also kept chilling spreadsheets and planning notes on just how many drugs to administer - and would then record some of the assaults to share with online groups who took pleasure in drugging their partners, according court documents.

'Edward Gene Smith is a sexual predator and a serial rapist,' US Attorney Jay Clayton said. 'He spent years hiding behind wealth, education, and status while he committed egregious sexual crimes.

'He drugged and raped women, documenting his crimes with extensive notes planning how he would torture and punish his victims, and surreptitiously photographing them, while they were nude and unconscious.'

Smith's reign of terror came crashing down in late 2024 when he was arrested on a six-count indictment for drugging and assaulting various women.

He ended up pleading guilty to only four counts: drugging a victim with intent to rape her, enticing another victim to travel to New York for sex, receiving child pornography, and obstruction of justice.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: citibank; edwardsmith

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1 posted on 07/28/2026 10:34:05 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

3 hots and a cot. you can’t get much better than that.


2 posted on 07/28/2026 10:35:31 AM PDT by Jonty30 (When I go to the kitchen to find food, I get disappointed because all I find are ingredients.)
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To: DFG

There’s another DEI hire that didn’t work out.


3 posted on 07/28/2026 10:36:03 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: DFG

Before sentencing, he tried to blame his crimes on his autism diagnosis.


4 posted on 07/28/2026 10:36:27 AM PDT by DFG
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5 posted on 07/28/2026 10:39:04 AM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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30 years. Not nearly enough. Should be life without the possibility of parole. (Actually, I think he deserves the death penalty, but New York won’t do that.)


6 posted on 07/28/2026 10:41:29 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: DFG

Is he related to Gillum who ran for gov in Florida as a dem.


7 posted on 07/28/2026 10:41:31 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now! )
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To: DFG

Same MO as Cosby.


8 posted on 07/28/2026 10:46:31 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Pretty boy gonna meet Bubba behind bars.


9 posted on 07/28/2026 10:50:49 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

FJB


10 posted on 07/28/2026 10:53:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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Most likely too, Super Woke Haaavard probably fudged his grades enough to get him a fake degree so that Haaavard could show the feds they were graduating blacks so the Feds would keep the fed dollars rolling in.


11 posted on 07/28/2026 10:56:01 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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Ole’ Eddie Smith...we never knew you. What is it with losers like this who rely on drugs to get a little trim? Some vodka okay but drugs??


12 posted on 07/28/2026 10:56:52 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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Harvard banking biggie, Edward Gene Smith, 50, admitted to attacking youngsters in his luxury Central Park apt, and amassed more than 9,000 child sexual abuse images, as part of his twisted spree.

He was most recently a Citigroup managing director, and hid his predatory actions behind the façade of a well-educated bank exec as a "license" to prey on and lure young victims.

The fastidious Smith kept chilling spreadsheets and plans on administering drugs to victims - and recorded assaults to share with online freaks, according to court documents.

13 posted on 07/28/2026 10:57:02 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: Col Frank Slade

Bubba already getting the Hustler centerfold and duct tape ready.😎


14 posted on 07/28/2026 10:58:28 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: DFG

If we had a DEI reboot of American Psycho today - and it was real . . . . ..


15 posted on 07/28/2026 11:36:33 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: BradyLS

Pretty sure Cosby didn’t have child torture materials.


16 posted on 07/28/2026 11:47:31 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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OMG! The PERVERT is BLACK!


17 posted on 07/28/2026 11:53:01 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Executive has been sentenced to 30 years.

He’s down to doing men or maybe not maybe just hurts don’t it.


18 posted on 07/28/2026 12:04:49 PM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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Prosecutors say the Harvard educated bigwig

Harvard sure teaches them well.

19 posted on 07/28/2026 12:06:29 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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DEI hire gets taxpayer Holiday Inn for an extended stay.


20 posted on 07/28/2026 12:44:23 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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