Hedge Fund, Ex-Employee Drop Claims in Sexual Harassment Suit, Embezzlement Countersuit

对纽约对冲基金执行权的性骚扰索赔在对冲基金提起据称受害者挪用数千美元的副作用后，本周撤回了纽约对冲基金行政。

Snow Park Capital Partners, a New York-based hedge fund,宣布Wednesday that it had ended litigation with former chief financial officer Kate Merli, who had filed a lawsuit in May accusing fund CEO Jeffrey Pierce of性侵犯，性别歧视和诽谤。作为回应，对冲基金公司有辈出一个月后，声称Merli已经制定了虚构的骚扰索赔，以试图违反信托责任和挪用贸易信息。

The agreement announced Wednesday撤回这两种索赔都不能改进，Merli禁止进一步讨论她对刺穿和他公司的指控。雪地公园表示，它没有在协议中提供Merli金钱或任何其他福利。

“我们认为，不保密的协议条款应解决对Merli女士的指控案件的任何问题，”对冲基金表示。

Merli于2016年10月首次加入雪地公园，作为首席财务官，这是直接报告刺穿的作用。两个月后，Merli参加了一名公司党，据称，据称，通过摸索和抚摸着“她的性侵犯和抚摸”和抚摸着“性攻击[Merli]，”试图强迫[Merli]亲吻皮尔斯，“法院文件。

The next day at work, Merli claimed Pierce brought up his “sexual comments” from the night before, stating that he “did not regret having made those comments,” according to the documents, because “’it was true’” that Merli was “’hot.’”

Merli’s lawsuit also described an incident in July 2017, when Pierce allegedly propositioned Merli and “groped” her after a work dinner. According to the complaint, Merli began recording Pierce on her cell phone in an attempt to document his behavior. When he realized she was recording him, Pierce “became enraged,” according to the lawsuit, allegedly “tackling her to the ground and attempting to wrestle the phone away.” Merli “relented and deleted the recording,” the complaint stated. She alleged that she reported the incident to New York City police.

根据诉讼，皮尔斯的性进步和7月入境后的评论不当。Merli声称她威胁要公开他的行为，但皮尔斯“威胁[Merli]，如果她这样做，如果她这样做，那么没有公司会雇用[她]再次”和“它会破坏她的专业名誉。”梅利据称，皮尔斯进一步承诺“抽出并延长任何法律战斗，以便她无法承担任何行动的律师。”

根据她的诉讼，Merli的最后一根稻草于2017年12月，当皮尔斯“要求他被赋予雪地园公司支票簿时，他可以为他公寓的工作人员提供7,850美元的总金额建造。Merli声称她抗议和皮尔斯在整个办公室的前面进行了刺痛和贬低和贬低[她]，并使她的诚信和能力称为CFO。“她说她后来没有回到雪地公园的办公室。

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皮尔斯柜台完全讲述一个不同的故事。

“Merli提出了这一诉讼，这些诉讼将虚构的性骚扰索赔作为旨在保护她免于犯罪的责任，并抢先地诋毁雪地公园派对对她的合法索赔，”雪园所称。

据师父介绍，Merli“将她的立场作为首席财务官，在雪地公园的费用中获得了自己的财务牺牲品，以便为她的企业信用卡收取个人费用，并从雪地公园的账户中写出自己的账户”近15,000美元。法院文件包括检查和安全摄像头剧照的复印件，据称显示Merli在晚上进入办事处，以便拿起据称盗窃记录的支票簿。

对冲基金进一步宣称，Merli已删除了公司数据，并发送了包含“机密，专有和/或商业秘密信息”的个人电子邮件。观看的公证宣誓书亚博赞助欧冠showed that Merli admitted to having possessed Snow Park files and data, including documents regarding corporate expenses. The affidavit, dated July 19, also included an admission from Merli that she shared Snow Park files with two acquaintances and three colleagues at her current employer. All files have since been returned to Snow Park, with any copies deleted or destroyed, according to the affidavit.

Merli没有退回寻求评论的电子邮件。