For years, Christine O’Reilly, a broker at the interdealer brokerage TP ICAP, alleges she suffered sexual harassment from Benjamin Waters, a trader at Citigroup and a client, who would send her late-night messages, spread rumors they were sleeping together and once tried to follow her into her hotel room, O’Reilly claims. The unwelcome advances got so bad that in 2023, she finally blocked him on the messaging platform WhatsApp.
But when O’Reilly’s supervisor found out, the 31-year-old broker alleges she was forced to unblock the trader, “tying her job to the need to tolerate sexual harassment,” according to a lawsuit filed in a Mahattan federal court on Monday.
