A former stockbroker says her boss was the wrong kind of hands-on.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Karen Lo, 20, said she’d only been working at Guerreiro Wealth Holdings for a short period of time when boss Thomas Guerriero sent her an astonishing e-mail “with a link to an obscene pornographic video containing explicit sound and imagery depicting male masturbation and ejaculation” this past Nov. 5.
The person is only identified by the tag “stallionman_69,” but Lo “believes the masturbating male, whose face is off-camera, is Guerriero.”
“I was pretty appalled,” the Stonybrook student said. She pleaded with Guerriero to keep their relationship professional, but he persisted with “unwelcome sexualized banter,” include sexting her that he wanted to take her “in the stairwell” and so he could “touch” her,
By February, she couldn’t take it anymore, and walked out of what she said had been her “dream job.”
Guerriero’s lawyer, Chad Seigel, said Lo has “credibility issues,” and had “manufactured” her claims “in hopes of getting money to which she’s not entitled.”
He said his client “has not sent her any improper video of himself,” and that they had had an “appropriate relationship.”
He also accused Lo of stealing company property, a claim her lawyer, Jack Tuckner, denied.
Guerriero, Tuckner said, “had no compunction about e-mailing repulsive pornography and obscene text messages to a 19-year-old who idolized him for his financial prowess. . . [H]e’s saying, ‘I’m so powerful and entitled, I act on every sexual impulse I have, without shame, fear or empathy for my victims.”
The suit seeks unspecified money damages.