IT'S 'SWINE' LAKE Perv CEO gets break for ballet
The wolf of Wall Street who sexually harassed his Swedish intern asked a judge if he could ditch his curfew Tuesday night to catch “Swan Lake” at Lincoln Center.
A Manhattan federal judge agreed to the request by Benjamin Wey — even after his victim’s lawyer demanded that the tickets be sold and the proceeds given to his client, who is still owed $18 million from the CEO.
Wey, 43, was slapped with a9 p.m. curfew and electronicmonitoring device after being indicted this month alleged stock manipulation, federalcourt papers show.
The criminal indictment came three months after his former intern, Hanna Bouveng, 25, won the multimilliondollar civil verdict against him for harassment and defamation.
Wey’s lawyers told the judge he should get a break on his curfew.
“Some time ago, Mr. Wey’s wife purchased tickets for Mr. Wey, Mrs. Wey and their children to attend a performance of the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015,” Wey’s lawyer, David Siegal, wrote to Manhattan federal Judge Alison Nathan.
Bouveng’s lawyer bashed Wey’s request in his own letter to Nathan.
“We respectfully suggest Mr. Wey is not entitled to attend the ballet, and that his tickets should be tendered to Ms. Bouveng care of her counsel instead so she can sell said tickets as down payment toward the millions owed her,” lawyer David Ratner wrote.
The letter noted that Wey has “not paid a dime” of the judgment against him so far.
But Nathan sided with Wey. Tuesday was the last night of the ballet’s weeklong run.
Wey had been accused of pressuring underling Bouveng into sex. He also posted horrific things about her online, including a lie that she was a prostitute, according to her lawsuit.
After a federal jury sided with her in June, Wey was indicted on charges of stock manipulation, court papers show.
Wey, CEO of New York Global Group, had straw buyers in China load up on stock in US companies, orchestrated mergers between Chinese firms and those US companies and then manipulated their stocks to make money, prosecutors charge. He netted at least $20 million in the scheme, officials said.
Wey and his wife were hit with a $10 million lawsuit Monday by a Cayman Islandsbased mutual fund. The fund invested in a technology company without knowing that Wey secretly controlled it as part of his “global Ponzi scheme,” court papers state.