Jerry Rotonda, pictured above, is the chief financial officer of Deutsche Bank’s American wealth management division. He owns an apartment in Trump Tower and has partnered with with Rotem Rosen, who was talking to Cohen at the same meeting, in a Manhattan money laundering ...er...real estate venture.
Mr. Rotonda has a colorful past.
So to speak.
One of the men photographed smoking cigars around Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen in New York last week was once accused of racially abusing and threatening to run over a black parking attendant.
Jerry Rotonda, a Deutsche Bank executive, was charged with violating the civil rights of Shirlene Pierce after she placed a $20 ticket on his Audi for an expired meter in Boston in December 1998.
Pierce alleged to police that Rotonda, then 31, used racial slurs, threatened to hit her, and concluded his rant by saying: “I hope I see you crossing the street so I can run your n----- ass over,” according to press reports from the court case.
Rotonda was accused by Pierce of calling her “a stupid n-----,” saying “I’ll slap that stupid n----- grin off your face,” and telling her: “Don’t come to Kenmore Square where decent people live, city n----- scum. Go back to Dorchester where monkey n------ live.”
Pierce was reported to have said later in a victim impact statement: “What was even more frightening was that through his words, I could sense he was ready to harm me and that there would be no remorse on his part for doing so.”
A Boston Judge awarded Pierce a $5,000 judgement against Rotonda who was granted a one year continuance provided he pay up and apologize to her.
After being reprimanded by a higher court the judge petulantly closed the case and ordered Ms. Pierce to return the money.
So Rotonda effectively got off scot-free.
Of course the sorry episode in American History that will be known as the drumpf Residency just had to have a walk on character who was a racist Deutsche Bank executive for ironic not so comic relief.
I expect at some point will have a pedophiliac Middle East policy adviser too…
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