A senior banker at Moelis & Co. has stop his job after a video of him punching a girl in Brooklyn circulated on social media. 

“Jonathan Kaye has resigned and is now not with the agency,” a Moelis spokesperson instructed CBS MoneyWatch Monday. 

Kaye had been with the boutique financial institution for over a decade. In a 2013 put up, 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 Delight occasion, inflicting her to fall to the bottom, in a video shared on social media platform X. On-line sleuths recognized the alleged assailant as Kaye, who on the time was managing director of Moelis & Co.’s international enterprise companies franchise. 

He was positioned on depart shortly after the incident, in line with a Bloomberg report. 

A spokesperson for Kaye instructed CBS MoneyWatch that he “was in worry for his bodily security when he was surrounded by an indignant mob of agitators who encircled him, bodily assaulted him and threw unknown liquids on him” on the occasion. “He couldn’t determine any of those people and was left bloodied from the assault.”

The spokesperson additionally famous an increase in antisemitic incidents, saying they’d make “any Jewish particular person” really feel threatened. The spokesperson added that Kaye has acquired quite a few dying threats following the incident. 

The New York Police Division instructed CBS MoneyWatch {that a} 38-year-old lady filed a police report 4 days after the incident, alleging that the punch triggered a damaged nostril, lacerations and a black eye. She additionally stated she grew to become unconscious after hitting the bottom, in line with the report. The NYPD is constant to research the incident.