N.Y. financier ordered to pay ex-employee $2 million for harassment

The chief executive of a Manhattan investment firm was ordered by a federal jury on Monday to pay at least $2 million in damages to a former employee for sexual harassment and defamation. The two-week civil trial in New York drew lurid headlines from the city's tabloids, pitting a young Swedish woman against a Wall Street financier 20 years her senior. Jurors found in Bouveng’s favor on sexual harassment, retaliation and defamation claims but rejected her claims of assault and battery.