To be sure, Robert Karofsky did not have sexual intercourse with the cleaning lady on his desk at 60 Wall Street (…that we know of), but you’re getting warmer. In this case, the firm’s co-head of equities, known for his “magnetic personality,” allegedly used his pole to attract a senior trader, subordinate and close friend’s wife, which apparently no one told him when he first started at DB is something that’s not done. Maybe in other offices– Morgan Stanely, where he previously worked– but not DB.
Karofsky, 43, a top trader at the firm who ran Deutsche Bank’s Americas unit, took the leave for personal reasons on June 23, effectively immediately. A spokesman for the bank declined to comment further at the time. But multiple sources told The Post that the Karofsky move followed a heated verbal confrontation late last week at the firm’s headquarters at 60 Wall St. between him and the pal, a senior trader, over the alleged affair. The verbal volleys created a tense environment within Deutsche Bank’s insular trading ranks and have slowly become a source of water cooler gossip throughout the organization.
“He’s pretty much just avoided interacting with [Karofsky] since the incident,” one source said of the equities boss’ former pal. Making matters particularly sticky is the fact that Karofsky and the trader who worked under him have been longtime buddies, live near each other in Northern New Jersey and took family trips together. Among traders, Karofsky is referred to as “Killer Karofsky” for his trading acumen. Off the trading floor, however, he’s described as a fair, mild-mannered, even-keeled boss who has garnered the respect of his charges and has “a magnetic personality.”
nailing your cleaning lady in the A is the new killing it.
who is the other trader, anyone have any info?
Deutsche Bank is a nasty place.
I gotta plead ignorance on this one.
Need I mention that stuff like this is no big deal at D. E. Shaw? Happens all the time.
There is an annoying typo – “apparently, no one told him…”
who is Karossky’s co-head of equities?
@6 FTW
Where are the clients’ buddy’s hot-assed wives?
Tits or else
Ok, like five posts by 10AM?? Pace yourself, sweetass
I once nailed a secretary in her Deutsche Bank, it wasn’t nasty at all.
@7 Garth Ritchie. Barry Bausano is filling in for Killer.
I’m going with [redacted]
Fucking Jersey…nothing but trash
@9 One of the best comments on this site in a while
@14/TC Why?
Verbal volleys for nailing my wife.
That guy would be eating a paver stone one morning for breakfast and spitting out his teeth like tic tacs. Then, the next morning, he wouldn’t come in.
Men are such b*tches nowadays.
@17 – just a wild, unsupported guess. Both live in NJ, members of the same clubs, donate to the same groups, he was a report of Killer, and both came from MS.
apparently hes a fan of scat…
(i think i just vomited a little bit into my mouth)
“Even keeled” and “magnetic” personalities are like warships: They attract certain types of mines and can easily be blown up.
~Admiral Halsey
@14 [redacated] is logged into Bloomberg today, so he is in the office…
@18 Bros before hos.
Props to @9 for continuing a 100 year old meme that NEVER gets old!!!
@24 i don’t get it- what is the reference?
The most dangerous trader in any trading room is the one with a nickname.
@22, Bloomberg Anywhere.
Also, whether somebody is logged in on a Friday in the summer, or not, doesn’t necessarily tell you much.
I touch myself
See, if he’d just dumped his spew in the cleaning lady, no one would be having these petty little spats…
uh huh
@25…allow me to interject here. @9 and @24 are referring to an old, old joke in the broker/financial industry that has been around for many, many years. I heard the joke in reference to the Great Depression. Here is the joke as I heard it long ago:
“A tour guide is leading a group around Chicago and as they approach the lake they see many large yachts and sailboats in a harbor. The tourguide announces, “And here are the fancy and expensive yachts of the city’s prominent brokers….”
At that point, a tourist speaks up and asks, “Where are their client’s yachts?” So ends the joke with that punchline.
The humor is in the observation that the brokers have made enough money to buy yachts but perhaps the clients have not.
Over lo these many years, the joke has been bastardized to reflect a more general group as the butt of the joke: anyone in the financial industry. Your Joke Briefer sees that meme in the commentary here at least once a month it seems. And so @9 massaged it into the current thread as well. A recent example was:
Re Gundlach: “Where are all the clients’ dildos?”
Re Hudson: “Where are all the clients’ million dollar mausoleums?”
Re Cohen: “Where are all the clients’ Zambonis?”
Re Citi: “Where are all the clients’ naughty hawks?”
Re Ping: “Where are all the clients’ dry erase markers?”
And so on……
~The Joke Briefer
@31 mint. -9
Karofsky should ice his “pal”, that would bring their broship right back!
@6; Just a small punctuation issue.
“..which he apparently know. One told him when he…”
Geez, we awl. Make them.
@34…
In the context of the sentence you corrected, the correct form should be “knew”.
If you want to be a pedant, be an accurate one, otherwise you just come across as an intern trying to be funny. Which of course they most certainly are not.
- The pedant admonisher.
@31, i still do not get it
-25
@34 Thanks Kouwe, good to see you’re still at the top of your game.
Mr. Deeds go to DB
don’t tase me bro
@33
I couldn’t agree more…..
wait, when you said “ice” him, did you mean that in the ‘Jersey Shore’ sense or more in ‘The Sopranos’ sense?
I personally feel the latter to be more appropriate.
@25 You’re a moron, that’s why.
@34 you are rather shallow and pedantic
apparently tho the close friend is the one pulling the costanza..
he was called Killer Karofsky in grade school b/c I know. He used to beat people up, that’s how he got his name.
“You’re where you should be all the time, and when you’re not you’re with some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend” is stuck in my head so now you’re all cordially invited to suffer along with me.
-guest
@40 – I meant “ice” in the “snowball” sense, but some bros told me watching your pals chug a smirnoff ice on their knees is much more pleasurable.
-@33
jesus christ can we fix the second sentence already! fuk bess.
@47 S a D, guy. it’s fixed.
His D was metal, her P was a magnet. 2010 came, “El Killer got me pregnant.”
@3 True Dat.
Kouwe_ofsky
I think we need to bring out the Ping Magic Marker.
@28 FTMFW! COTD!
@Tax Chick: Yes.
So, all the funny commenters took the day off?
I fully expected “Hennigan’s” to be in the tags here. As a matter of fact I laughed about it preemptively.
What’s the over/under on Killer K’s wife pulling a Soprano on him?
DB just downgraded the U.S. Financial System. I can see why. Homies actin’ like bitches. Pistols at dawn or dicks on the table.
@45 It worked. Dammit.
@55 So, I guess that’s why you’re here?
@56 “That was a preemptive crap pools.”
What a class act this guys is. Ruin two families. Moron.
Trader: Did you f*ck my wife?
Karofsky: What?
Trader: Did you f*ck my wife?
Karofsky: How do you ask me that? I’m your brother and you ask me that? Where do you get your balls big enough to ask me that?
Trader: I’m gonna ask you again, did you or didn’t you? Just answer the question.
Karofsky: I’m not gonna answer that. It’s stupid. It’s a sick question and you’re a sick f*ck and I’m not that sick that I’m gonna answer it. I’m leaving, You’re cracking up! You’re a f*cking screw ball.
@44, maybe he’s called “Killer Karofsky” because he sleeps around and gives AIDS to his intercourse partners.
@42 who’s the boss is not a food.
@45 you probably think this post is about you, don’t you?
At Merrill, they would put us in a room once a year and some HR types would roleplay various situations. The point was to identify situations that were deemed appropriate/inappropriate as a learning tool. During the Q&A we were encouraged to give hypothetical situations and the HR types would give it a pass/fail. The question of adultry with a colleague’s spouse came up and we were told the company was fine with it. I found out later, the person asking the question was baiting a colleague who was infact having an affair with another guy’s wife.
“You claim to be a player but I fucked your wife”
-Tupac, “Hit’em Up”
Bess, does this sort of thing happen at DB? Spill the dirt…
DB- as advertised,” The Passion to Perform!”.. Living the DB values never felt so good. . .
If sleeping with my best friend’s wife is wrong, then I don’t wanna right.
-Killer Karofsky
I was wondering why Killer Karofsky’s computer screen saver was a picture of Tiger woods, Al Gore and Jesse James..
She just loved to get down with sex all the time. It was like… anytime of day, she was like, “Yeah, let’s go! I’m so nasty!” And I’d be nailing her and she’d be like, “Oh, you’re nailing me! Cool!”
Douwetsche Bank
Where are the clients’ Kouwes?nh
Killer must have been a good listener, and probably provided the emotional support the subordinate’s wife was craving. The relationship probably evolved slowly, from a close friendship to something more, something that involved ass-pounding.
so this was not a cuckold relationship…that explains the animosity
FWIW – Killer Kowalski was a well-known pro wrestler in the 60′s and 70′s. Anyone whose last name sounds like Kowalski is a candidate for the nickname.
@66. We did the same thing at GS: the takehome was that all wives would fuck you if you asked them. It was suggested that you refrain from flirting with client/coworker wives.
Also, at MD level, a mistress was considered better – less chance of press. This might have changed since the whole vampire-squid thing.
@62 FTW!
Pigfuckers
@66/78 Would banging a colleagues wife have been considered a violation of the Bear Stearns no-nepotism rule?
@81 No, only if you fuck your colleagues’ daughters.
Someone does that to my old lady the dude is getting a Hot Stick up the ass, and not a whiteboard marker, while gripping on to a transformer.
I hear DB is killing it in the swaps department.. Credit default, Interest rates or Dividends?..
NO…
WIFE swaps!… #1 on the STREET in the greenwich survey.. BooYAH!
Is that a severance PACKAGE in your pocket? or are you just happy to see my wife? either way.. Someone gets fired and someone gets fvcked!
@85,
where are all the client’s severance PACKAGES????
(like that?)
Corporate scum, i can see the guy in picture sniffing cocaine off a hookers tits trying to get a hard on. Puke inducing
the guy in the picture isnt a trader or banker, look at his collar – those collars are for peasants
@87 and @88 are you really that fucking unbelievably stupid that you don’t know where the picture is from?
is it me, or does Robert Karofsky look exactly like George Costanza
I worked at a large Euro bank , and had the pleasure of seeing the COO “suspended” for getting caught with a back office support personnel on a conference room table by a security guard … but I digress
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juicy
Perhaps someone should ask if said “trader” was having an affair of his own… Not sure Killer killed that marriage.
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