A millionaire funding banker was filmed punching a lady within the face, inflicting her to fall to the bottom, on the streets of New York on Saturday night.
Jonathan Kaye, 52, was seen throwing a vicious overhand proper on the unnamed lady in Brooklyn – the place he lives in a $4million four-bedroom townhouse in dear Park Slope. It’s unclear what sparked the confrontation.
Kaye works as a Managing Director at Moelis & Firm, a number one funding financial institution with places of work in Midtown Manhattan.
Within the clip, the girl is seen being thrown to the ground by the pressure of the punch, as one onlooker unsuccessfully rushes to her support. Others wanting on are heard calling Kaye an ‘a**gap’ and telling him to ‘go f**okay himself’ – incomes his consideration briefly earlier than he abruptly walks away.
A spokesperson for the financial institution confirmed to DailyMail.com that Kaye is the person seen within the viral video, and stated that it has already spurred an investigation.
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Jonathan Kaye, 52, is seen throwing a vicious overhand proper on the unnamed lady in Brooklyn – the place he additionally lives in a 4 bed room townhouse in dear Park Slope, valued at simply over $4million
The banker, seen right here turning triumphantly within the wake of the assault, works as a Managing Director at Moelis & Firm, a number one funding financial institution with places of work in Midtown Manhattan
‘We have now grow to be conscious that certainly one of our workers was concerned in a critical incident in Brooklyn on June 8,’ a Moelis consultant stated, because the 12-second snippet continues to achieve traction on-line.
‘We take this matter very severely and are conducting an investigation,’ she added.
Based on a profile on Moelis’s web site, Kaye holds a B.A. from Tufts College, and graduated cum laude from the Duke College College of Legislation.
One other profile detailing Kaye’s accomplishments, on The Jewish Grad Group, touts his ten years on the agency, throughout which he helped Moelis ‘grow to be a market chief with over 125 executed transactions representing over $100 billion in collective enterprise worth.’
Earlier than that, he labored as Advertising director of CitiGroup – the third-largest banking establishment within the US.
In his present position, he oversees 10 verticals inside Moelis’s Enterprise Providers faction, managing ‘a devoted group of bankers and… an in depth community of relationships with each strategic firms and personal fairness traders,’ the bio states.
It provides how he additionally serves on the agency’s Administration Committee, demonstrating his standing within the monetary sector.
Moelis is already probing the incident, however as of writing, it stays unknown whether or not it has been reported to the NYPD. DailyMail.com has reached out for remark.
Based on a profile on Moelis’s web site, Kaye holds a B.A. from Tufts College, and graduated cum laude from the Duke College College of Legislation
Moelis is already probing the incident, however as of writing, it stays unknown whether or not it has been reported to the NYPD. DailyMail.com has reached out for remark
The footage, in the meantime, is brief and shaky, however features a second the place Kaye turns to the digital camera after knocking the girl to the ground.
Kaye walks off, holding a bag in a single hand, with a moist stain on the again of his blazer.
In a single clip containing a caption overlaid over the footage, a person wrote: ‘This man punched me within the face in the present day and broke my nostril. [He also] busted up my mates[sic] arm… can anybody discover him?’
The context of the punch-up continues to be unclear.
