Goldman Sachs executive accused of rape

By Lauren Tara LaCapra

NEW YORK – A Goldman Sachs Group executive has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of raping a 20-year-old woman during a party last week at a home he rented in Long Island’s upscale Hamptons neighborhood, court records show.

According to records, Jason Lee, 37, was charged Wednesday with one felony count of first-degree rape and two misdemeanor counts of assault and sexual misconduct.

Police said last week that Lee was arrested Aug. 21 in East Hampton, New York, after police responded to a stolen car report and found the unnamed woman who claimed she was being sexually assaulted been. Lee was released on $20,000 bail.

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The court documents do not name Lee’s employer, but Reuters confirmed that he works at Goldman Sachs (GS). A lawyer for Lee was quoted by the New York Times last week as saying his client “strongly denies the allegations.” Lee’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the charges.

Goldman Sachs declined to comment.

According to court records, Lee is scheduled to be arraigned on Sept. 20 before Judge Barbara Kahn in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead.

A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority record shows that Lee had worked for Goldman since March 1998. A biography posted on the Milken Institute’s website says that as a manager of “many of the firm’s most complex financing and risk management transactions for corporate clients” he led. Convertible bonds and equity derivatives.