Billionaire investment banker punches woman on Brooklyn street

Metro

by Catherine Donlevy

A billionaire investment banker is accused of punching a woman in the face, sending her collapsing on the street in Brooklyn on Saturday night.

The shocking video shows a man delivering a vicious overhand right punch to a woman’s face in front of a crowd of partygoers enjoying Brooklyn Pride in Park Slope.

The woman covered her injured face and collapsed to the ground just a few feet away from a second, presumably injured, person lying on the sidewalk.

Social media users identified the perpetrator in the video, which has been viewed nearly five million times, as Jonathan Kaye, managing director of business services franchise Maurice & Company.

“We have been made aware of a serious incident involving one of our employees in Brooklyn on June 8th. We are taking this matter very seriously and are investigating,” a spokesperson for the New York-based investment bank told The Post.

The company did not say whether the employee was Kaye or whether he had faced disciplinary action.

Kaye declined to comment when contacted by The Washington Post, and the New York Police Department had no information about the shocking assault.

The video does not show the moments leading up to the assault on the suspect, but can be seen walking away afterwards looking distraught and with his jacket streaked with liquid down his back.

“She threw some f**k at me,” a man believed to be Kay can be heard saying, while bystanders call the attacker a “bastard” and a “horrible person”.

According to text above the video, the thug broke a woman’s nose and “punched” another person’s arm, knocking them down.

Kaye has led Moelis & Company’s global business services division since 2013, according to the company. He previously worked as managing director in Citibank’s global mergers and acquisitions group.

The suspect lives in a luxury four-bedroom townhouse in Park Slope that is valued at more than $4 million.

The luxury home is just three blocks from Ginger’s Bar, one of the few remaining lesbian bars in Brooklyn.

The attack occurred as thousands of people descended on Park Slope on Saturday to celebrate the 28th annual Brooklyn Pride multicultural festival, a day-long event that begins with a 5K run and ends with a parade down Fifth Avenue.