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ric Jay Smith, MD, an anesthesiologist from Bellevue, Wash.,
allegedly led a double life, sedating patients during the day and
running a high-end residential brothel at night.
Investigators say Dr. Smith made thousands of dollars by
bringing women from Southeast Asia to suburban Seattle
and placing them in luxury apartments to work as prosti-
tutes, according to an affidavit filed in federal court July
18. Charges have yet to be filed against Dr. Smith,
though he remains under investigation, says a
spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's office in Seattle.
The evidence against the former Overlake Medical
Center physician is daunting, including online ads
and a money trail that led straight to automatic teller
machines around Bellevue. Investigators say Dr.
Smith used the ATMs to deposit $426,000 in cash
allegedly garnered from the prostitution ring.
Sex or drugs?
An agent at the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
wrote in an affidavit that in November 2012 he
learned that Dr. Smith was making multiple
large cash deposits into ATMs.
After learning that Dr. Smith
holds a DEA Controlled
Substances
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