Macquarie U.S. Executive Departs Amid Sexual Harassment Claim
- Robert Ansell left bank’s New York office within past month
- Khristina McLaughlin says in suit she was pushed into affair
Pedestrians cross the road in front of the Macquarie Group Building in Sydney, Australia, on April 27, 2012.
Photographer: Ian Waldie/Bloomberg
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Robert Ansell, head of U.S. cash equities for Macquarie Group Ltd., left the bank weeks before a colleague alleged in a lawsuit that she was pressured into having an affair with him.
Ansell pushed Khristina McLaughlin, now head of U.S. sales for cash equities, to begin a relationship in 2015 and continue it until this year, according to a complaint she filed Friday in federal court in Manhattan. She’s suing Ansell and the Australian bank’s U.S. unit for $40 million, saying co-workers are now ostracizing her, making her job impossible.