Wine Worth $1.2M Stolen From Cellar Of Wall Street Exec, Feds Say

WALL STREET, NY — A personal assistant to a Wall Street executive stole more than $1.2 million in fine wine from his boss, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Federal authorities arrested Nicolas De-Meyer on Tuesday night, and have charged the 40-year-old with transporting stolen property across state lines.

De-Meyer worked as a personal assistant for nearly eight years for David Solomon, the co-president of Goldman Sachs, according to Bloomberg.

Bloomberg revealed that Solomon was the victim of the wine theft shortly before the indictment against his former assistant was unsealed on Wednesday.

Prosecutors say De-Meyer sold the valuable wines to a dealer in North Carolina, including seven bottles that were collectively worth $133,650.

"As alleged, Nicholas De-Meyer, personal assistant to a Manhattan-based employer, stole over a million dollars’ worth of some of the world’s finest wines from his boss," Manhattan U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a statement.

According to Bloomberg, part of De-Meyer job was transporting the fancy wines from Solomon's Manhattan apartment to his second home in East Hampton, New York, giving the assistant easy access to the vino.

Patch was not immediately able to contact a defense attorney for De-Meyer.

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