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Not Going Quietly: Too-Hot Banker Sues Citibank
By Mara Gay - AOL News(June 28) -- Debrahlee Lorenzana is taking her campaign against Citibank to court. The former Citi banker filed a complaint today with New York's Division of Human Rights, charging that she was fired because she reported sexual harassment at the hands of male co-workers and was simply too hot for her male managers. Lorenzana, 33, has said the ogling men were too distracted by her voluptuous curves to focus on their work. Richard Drew, AP Former Citibank employee Debrahlee Lorenzana, who claims she was fired for being too hot, filed a complaint Monday with New York's Division of Human ...
'Too Hot' Banker Boosted Assets With Surgery
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(June 10) -- The headline-making New York banker who says Citibank fired her for being too hot underwent four plastic surgery procedures, including two breast augmentations, the New York Daily News reports. A 2003 Discovery Health Channel series dug up by the newspaper reveals that the now-famous assets of Debrahlee Lorenzana weren't exactly natural. Footage from "Plastic Surgery New York Style" shows a then-26-year-old Lorenzana preparing for her fourth cosmetic procedure -- a second breast augmentation. She said she wanted to achieve "huge double D's." "I love plastic surgery," Lorenzana, ...
Debrahlee Lorenzana Sues Citi, Claims She Was Fired for Her Beauty
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyAccording to Debrahlee Lorenzana, "As long as I have two hands and two legs, and can still walk, I will always work." Unfortunately, those legs (and thighs, and hips and breasts) are what landed the 33-year-old mom out of work. Last week, the Village Voice ran a profile on Lorenzana's trials and tribulations as a business banker at Citibank in New York City. In the story, "Is The Woman Too Hot To Be a Banker?" she and her lawyer claim Citibank unlawfully fired Lorenzana for "distracting" her male bosses with her extreme beauty, and she sued. A arbitration panel will decide the case. For ...
'Too Hot' Former Citi Employee Defies Chase
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(June 7) -- The former Citibank employee who claimed she was fired because of her distractingly good looks could soon lose another job and file a brand new lawsuit over a potentially controversial body part: her mouth. Debrahlee Lorenzana says her Citi-slamming media blitz led her new employer, JPMorgan Chase, to threaten disciplinary action "up to and including termination" over appearances and interviews they say bash the banking industry and breach the company's code of conduct. Saswat Pattanayak / Splash Debrahlee Lorenzana's attorney said the former Citibank employee will take legal ...
Lawsuit: Bank Fired Me Because I'm Too Hot
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(June 3) -- A vintage Pantene commercial once said -- "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful." Now an ousted Citibank staffer is telling her former employer: Don't fire me because I'm hot. Debrahlee Lorenzana, 33, is so certain her sultry looks led to her job loss at the bank's branch in New York's landmark Chrysler Building, she filed suit, claiming she was canned over her penchant for pencil skirts and other body-hugging attire. Described by the Village Voice as a "head-turning beauty" with "J.Lo curves," Lorenzana accuses Citibank of discriminating against her because of her natural good ...
Treasury Set to Sell Citigroup Shares, Could Net Significant Profit
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe Treasury Department said Monday that it would begin selling the 7.7 billion shares of Citibank it obtained in exchange for giving the bank $25 billion in 2008, the Associated Press reports. The government is working to shed the investments it made in American banks and corporations under the Toxic Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Selling its holdings of Citi stock could net the U.S. a significant profit. Citi, one of the hardest hit banks during the 2008 financial crisis, received $45 billion in bailout money, $25 million of which was converted to the stake the government is now preparing ...
Treasury Quickly Halts Plan to Sell Citigroup Stock
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe U.S. government abruptly halted its plan to begin selling its 34 percent stake in Citigroup after investors demanded a price so low that the Treasury Department would have lost money on the deal, the Wall Street Journal reports. The decision comes an embarrassing two days after the department arranged major tax breaks with the IRS in order to broker a deal to help Citi repay its $20 billion in bailout money. The government's shares in Citigroup got a lukewarm response on Wall Street this week, where investors were wary of earnings prospects and had already spent heavily on shares from ...
Major Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Fundraiser Charged With Fraud
By Bob Franken - Politics DailySome will certainly notice the irony in Hassan Nemazee being charged with trying to defraud Citibank, the financial behemoth so many believe victimized our entire economy.How far he has fallen. The 59-year old Nemazee was national co-chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential bid last year, and when she lost he raised money for the man who beat her, Barack Obama. In 2004 he was New York state financial chairman for John Kerry. Most recently he was national chairman of the committee that works to elect Democrats to the Senate, chaired by New York Sen. Charles Schumer. ...
Citi Bank Not Nixing Mets Sponsorship
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsConsidering that Citi Bank was one of many banks on the receiving end of some of the $45 billion that the government had given as part of the TARP bailout, there were a lot of people who took offense to the fact that the bank was still planning on using $400 million to put their name on the new Mets ballpark, Citi Field, for the next 20 years.Even Congress got in on the act, as well they should considering they approved the bailout, saying that the bank should pull out of its sponsorship of the stadium. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported ($) that Citi was thinking of backing out of ...
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