Aide to Goldman Sachs Executive Stole His Wine, Prosecutors Say
January 17 2018 - 2:32PM
Dow Jones News
By Corinne Ramey
Federal prosecutors Wednesday accused the personal assistant of
a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive of stealing more than $1.2
million of wine from his boss.
A spokesman for Goldman Sachs identified the executive as David
Solomon, the firm's president and co-chief operating officer. The
spokesman said the theft of the wine, which includes some of the
world's rarest, was discovered in the fall of 2016 and reported to
law enforcement at that time.
The indictment charges Nicolas De-Meyer, 40 years old, with
interstate transportation of stolen property. He was arrested
Tuesday night in Los Angeles and expected to appear Wednesday in
federal court there.
A lawyer for Mr. De-Meyer couldn't be reached.
Court papers identify Mr. De-Meyer as the personal assistant "to
an individual who collects rare and expensive wine," whom
prosecutors call "the victim."
From 2014 through October 2016, Mr. De-Meyer stole hundreds of
bottles of wine, the indictment says. Using the alias Mark Miller,
Mr. De-Meyer sold the wine to a North Carolina wine dealer he found
on the internet, prosecutors said.
The wine in question includes bottles from Domaine de la
Romanée-Conti, an estate in Burgundy, France, court documents show.
These wines are "among the best, most expensive and rarest wines in
the world," according to prosecutors.
In October 2016, Mr. De-Meyer stole seven bottles of the wine,
which Mr. Solomon had purchased for $133,650, prosecutors said. The
wine dealer picked up the bottles from Mr. De-Meyer's Manhattan
apartment, then transported some of the bottles to New Jersey and
shipped some to California.
Write to Corinne Ramey at Corinne.Ramey@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 17, 2018 14:17 ET (19:17 GMT)
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