Ex-Goldman Managing Director Acquitted In Hamptons Rape Case

Thomas Spota, Suffolk County District Attorney, said prosecutors were in touch with the brother constantly and urged him to come forward.

“He chose not to come forward,” Spota said. “I don’t think that really hurt the case.”

Prosecutors presented more than a dozen witnesses during the trial, which began April 8, including East Hampton police officers and detectives, investigators from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, the nurse who examined the woman at a nearby hospital, analysts from the county crime laboratory, the alleged victim and her friend.

Lee didn’t testify.

Woman’s Inconsistencies

Inconsistencies in the woman’s story were enough to raise reasonable doubt, Lankler told the judge in his closing argument Tuesday.

She gave differing versions of the alleged attack, where she got her clothes and photos of Lee showed no scratches to his face or body, Lankler had told the judge.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Lee had been with Goldman Sachs since March 1998, according to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority records. He was promoted in 2008 to managing director, the firm’s second-highest rank. Managing directors at the bank typically receive a base salary of $500,000 and often receive bonuses that can boost total compensation into the millions of dollars.

Bank Firing

Lee was head of convertibles at the New York-based bank. He was suspended after his arrest and later fired, according to a person familiar with the matter who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.

David Wells, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs, declined to comment on Lee’s case.

According to a biography posted on the website of a 2009 Milken Institute conference where Lee was a scheduled speaker, he managed convertible and equity derivative origination for financial institutions, health care, and consumer and retail companies, and led many of the firm’s most complicated financing and risk-management transactions for corporate clients.

The case is New York v. Lee, 02053/2013, New York State Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Riverhead).