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发帖数: 7881 | 1 The day after a Wall Street intern scored an $18 million court award against
her amorous ex-boss, she had only one word for him — “psychopath.’’
Pretty brunette Hanna Bouveng, 25, told The Post Tuesday that married
financier Benjamin Wey “used psychological abuse’’ to “control and
isolate’’ her.
“He has the behavior of a psychopath,’’ she said.
“He told a lot of stories about how people screw each other by money and
political power. He said that if you don’t have powerful friends or
resources, then you’re screwed and could end up in prison,’’ she added,
sitting down for an interview in the Midtown office of her lawyer, David
Ratner, of the firm Morelli Alters Ratner.
“At that time, you don’t really think. You just act on emotion, and that
emotion is that I was scared and he intimidated me.”
The former marketing intern — who testified that the 43-year-old Wey turned
into a two-minute man during their first sex romp — said her boss would
change his mood on a dime, depending on whether she acceded to his demands.
“He manipulated me, and he broke me down in various different ways. It
could be the way he was acting in the office, depending on whether I had
dinner with him or not,’’ she said.
She claimed that Wey, the CEO of New York Global Group, would introduce her
to important people to try to show how powerful he was.
“It’s weird when you meet Nancy Pelosi or the mayor of New York [de Blasio
]. All these different things start to break me down, and I didn’t feel
that I was independent or I was strong enough to be the person that I am,”
Bouveng said.
“He was trying to slowly peel off my own self-identity and replace it with
his ego.”
Bouveng told The Post that she was especially upset after Wey showed up in
her small Swedish hometown of Vetlanda and allegedly frightened her 19-year-
old cousin by walking right up to her and calling out her name.
“She was terrified. She just went straight home,’’ she said.
“I realized he was obsessed and he was not going to go away,” Bouveng
added, explaining why she finally filed her $850 million suit against Wey.
She said she plans to use at least some of her jury award to help other
victims of workplace harassment.
But her own nightmare isn’t over, she said.
Bouveng refused to discuss her personal life, including where she’s living
and what she’s doing back home in Sweden, because she said she was still
too scared of the international businessman.
“I don’t walk by myself anywhere,’’ she said, adding that she’s scared
no matter “what I’m going to do, if I’m going to go around the corner, if
I see someone pass by in the type of car he had.’’ |
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