Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Weird’s Deep Thoughts (Wednesday Masters-of-the-Universe Edition): One Banker's Costly Cab Ride




According to WSJ: Criminal charges were dropped against banker William Bryan Jennings, but Morgan Stanley alleges he violated the firm's code of conduct.  In the eyes of the law, William Bryan Jennings's stabbing with a taxicab driver on the way home from a Morgan Stanley MS -0.24% holiday party last December never happened.  Despite a whirlwind of tabloid headlines unleashed after the 46-year-old investment banker pulled a pen knife out of his briefcase over a disputed fare, prosecutors dropped assault and hate-crime charges against him.

Mr. Jennings was a free man. But Morgan Stanley has declined to forgive and forget.  He was fired in early October, two weeks before the criminal case died. A brief letter to him didn't go into much detail, but Morgan Stanley officials have said Mr. Jennings breached the securities firm's 22-page code of conduct, according to people familiar with the matter.

Now the banker, who goes by "Bryan," and his former bosses are in a tug of war over millions of dollars in deferred compensation that Mr. Jennings accumulated during his 19-year career at the New York company.  Officials at the firm believe it owes him nothing, citing "clawback" provisions that allow the company to withhold or seize pay from employees who hurt Morgan Stanley….

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