Michael Bloomberg Allegedly Told New Mom To Find ‘Some Black’ For A Nanny
The female employee had been struggling to secure child care, according to legal documents unearthed by The Washington Post.
Democratic presidential candidate
Michael Bloomberg has long been trailed by accusations of promoting a frat house culture in the workplace, but documents in a 1998 lawsuit
reported by The Washington Post contain particularly ugly remarks attributed to the Manhattan billionaire.
Around July 1993 at the financial data company he founded, Bloomberg allegedly browbeat a saleswoman in front of other employees. He’d just heard that the woman was having trouble finding a nanny, according to
the lawsuit.
“It’s a fukking baby! All it does is eat and shyt! It doesn’t know the difference between you and anyone else! All you need is some Black, who doesn’t even have to speak English, to rescue it from a burning building!” Bloomberg allegedly shouted.
The woman, who is not named, “cried at hearing her employer say such things to her, in so public a manner,” the lawsuit stated.
A spokesman for Bloomberg denied that the presidential candidate ever made any of the statements alleged in the suit.