No doubt that the CEO made some pretty terrible decisions, and surely he deserves some punishment for stalking and threats...but $18 million? Probably a small dent for his part, but the lady is set for life.
From ABC news: (Link inside the post)
Woman Gets $18M in Sex Harassment Suit Against Wall Street BossA young Swedish woman who sued her former Wall Street executive boss over lurid allegations of sexual conquest, betrayal and stalking was awarded $18 million by a federal jury Monday.
Hanna Bouveng, 25, accused Benjamin Wey in an $850 million lawsuit of using his power as owner of New York Global Group to coerce her into four sexual encounters before firing her after discovering she had a boyfriend.
The jury in federal court in Manhattan awarded her $2 million in compensatory damages plus $16 million in punitive damages on sexual harassment, retaliation and defamation claims. It rejected a claim of assault and battery.
Bouveng, who was raised in Vetlanda, Sweden, testified that soon after Wey hired her at New York Global Group, the CEO began a relentless quest to have sex with her. She says he fired her six months later after she refused any more sexual contact and he found a man in her bed in the apartment he helped finance.Wey, 43, also sought to defame Bouveng by posting articles on his blog accusing her of being a "street walker," a "loose woman" and an extortionist, her lawyers say.
Wey walked into a Stockholm cafe in April 2014 where she was working a few months after she was fired from Global Group, attorney David Ratner told jurors. "The message was: 'Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I am going to find you and I am going to get you," Ratner said.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/swedish-woman-2m-sex-harassment-suit…
Gold digger? She was sexually harassed by some creep.
"Apartment he helped finance" implies that she was getting more from him than just a job and the attached salary.
I don't get how smart people resort to this kind of behavior. When you're as rich as him you can almost have anything you want.
That kind of mentality is EXACTLY why people behave this way.
Exactly...so when you don't get what you want you don't know how to respond and sometimes do crazy shit.
curious on what basis she determined the lawsuit was worth $850m and how they finally figured the $18m sum..
I had a professor in school who had a side gig determining values of people's injuries. It definitely sounded like an interesting job, but he said corruption was very high.
Shes a hard 3/10 tops...smh
but what is she in binary?
In binary, barely a 1.
The guy sounds and looks like a total tool: http://www.nyggroup.com/nygg-team/leadership/benjamin-wey/ You gotta really like yourself to put that long of a bio with two pics of yourself puffing your chest out on your website.
What he did was completely wrong but $18MM is ridiculous. Of course $850MM is probably much closer to what this lady is worth. I'm pretty sure she did a DCF on her future income using a -10% discount rate then added $849.9MM to it.
His bio is ridiculous, like, LinkedIn article ridiculous. I'm sure she isn't Miss Innocent and that he put the pressure on. With attitudes like that maybe they're the perfect match.
He quotes YOLO as one of life principles. Holy shit. That page is gold.
This guy is such a cheesedick.
"using his power as owner of New York Global Group to coerce her into four sexual encounters before firing her after discovering she had a boyfriend."
So she cheated on her bf or what?
"he found a man in her bed in the apartment he helped finance" .... "in the apartment he helped finance"... lol
Obviously she didn't say no to the apartment. She knew exactly what she was doing initially with the money/stuff she was getting from her boss. I doubt it was any coercion to get her to sleep with him, but rather simply he was buying her stuff and she was trading sex for it.
"Wey walked into a Stockholm cafe in April 2014 where she was working a few months after she was fired from Global Group"
If she couldn't get a job better than a waitress afterwards, that implies she wasn't qualified to begin with and was hired for other reasons.
The boss comes off as a serious loser and the girl isn't exactly some innocent snowflake victim in all of this.
She's not bad looking, her lawyers probably didn't want to play up the fact that she could be hot with some makeup. Google her, the attached picture definitely doesn't win her a beauty pageant.
1- a real financier should not think with his penis 2- she is like 3/10 did she charmed him with some kind of black magic?
Guys guys guys...his name is trademarked. Remember to include the "R"
http://www.nyggroup.com/nygg-team/leadership/benjamin-wey/
lol. I didn't see that. I also like their "About" page:
"...supported by our CEO Benjamin Wey, a Wall Street financier and journalist, holder of two master’s degrees, a graduate of Columbia Business School and a recognized China expert, New York Global Group is managed by experienced and talented individuals that have the expertise, high-level private and public sector backgrounds, global network and sound judgment to address challenges for clients in China and work with clients to develop and implement practical winning strategies."
Anyone who calls themselves a financier and puts their schools and the "two masters" on the about page is a cheeseball. And probably isn't actually doing deals.
"BENJAMIN WEY, PUBLISHER, JOURNALIST, FINANCIER"
Cracks me up every time.
BENJAMIN WEY’S LIFE PRINCIPLES: 1) “Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.” – Abraham Lincoln 2) “No publicity is bad publicity.” – Donald Trump 3) “Facts are stubborn things.” – John Adams 4) “YOLO” – You Only Live Once, Fight for Principles and Civil Justice, Never Give Up
Also, one of his life principles is YOLO...
SERIOUSLY
NEVER BANG YOUR SUBORDINATES, EVER, I don't care if she's a former Victoria Secret model and this girl clearly was not
you should add that your life principals' page.. like our good friend Mr. Wey
Amen
According to the article they shagged 4 times? Assuming this is a gross miscalculation. Lets quintuple that and said they did the deed 20 times total.
18M/20=$900K/Per
Escorts in Moscow probably make similar sums?
What's more professional than a Wordpress page?
Fuck him. He got what he deserved. I just wish that I had the ability to sue for this reason. Why is it legitimate for a woman to sue for sexual harassment but not a man?
Ummm...you can.
You think you'd get 18 mil?
Here's a better headshot of Hanna.
EDIT: Right from her lawyer: “He has sex with her, and it's over in two minutes. She was horrified and debased." Absolute gold.
Definitely 1/1, would smash
Good for her. Fine as hell too.
His bio page is a gold mine... obviously he was beat up in high school / college and is flexing his "muscle" nowadays.
For $18MM, I would have let him buttfuck me 4 times.
YOLO
Does anyone not know he's a famous pump and dump guy / fraud? and I'm not talking about pump and dump in the bedroom sense (although it does apply here as well coincidentally!)
please elaborate...I can't believe the YOLO thing...gold, just pure gold.
See here:
http://sirf-online.org/2014/02/03/249/
Going through the backdoor...in more than one way...
The guy is a horrible writer, considering he is apparently some renowned journalist. Here are some highlight quotes:
"... if there is a point to life, it is to be the best you possible."
"At the risk of sounding like a cliché, I, Benjamin Wey, am going to quote Confucius, who is credited with saying, 'Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.' "
"The two Steves (Jobs and Wozniak) created the Apple computer because they wanted their own computer"
Is this person real? I don't know why, but for some reason I get a scam / con artist vibe from him. I would not be surprised if he one day appears on the television show "American Greed"
This guy seems kinda... deluded. And as for the lady - she cheated on her boyfriend FOUR TIMES?
Jesus. It's just like that time I accidentally got a dildo lodged in my anal cavity. I just fell on it! Again and again and again!
I'm no macro expert...but here's a video of Mr. Wey talking about China:
Literally just a steaming pile of rubbish.
the girl is so happy in the press' photos, you would think she is going to her birthday party instead of a court
That "better" head shot did nothing to change my mind, I've been doing hotter chics with better bodies since like 14 years old.
Benjamin Wey‘s name - Benjamin Wey® is a U.S. registered trademark.........really? Is he even legit? Anyone done business with his firm?
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