A senior banker at Moelis & Co. has give up his job after a video of him punching a girl in Brooklyn circulated on social media.
“Jonathan Kaye has resigned and is not with the agency,” a Moelis spokesperson informed CBS MoneyWatch Monday.
Kaye had been with the boutique financial institution for over a decade. In a 2013 post, the funding financial institution introduced his appointment to managing director of the corporate’s mergers and acquisitions group.
His employment on the agency started to unravel on June 8, when he was filmed showing to strike a girl at a Brooklyn Pride occasion, inflicting her to fall to the bottom, in a video shared on social media platform X. Online sleuths recognized the alleged assailant as Kaye, who on the time was managing director of Moelis & Co.’s international enterprise providers franchise.
He was positioned on depart shortly after the incident, in line with a Bloomberg report.
Kaye couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
A police report filed by a 38-year-old lady following the incident states the punch precipitated a damaged nostril, lacerations and a black eye, the New York Police Department stated, in line with Bloomberg. She additionally stated she turned unconscious as soon as she hit the bottom, in line with the report. The NYPD didn’t instantly reply to CBS MoneyWatch’s request for remark.
