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Cantor Fitzgerald Doesn’t Want This Woman Talking About Her Mug in Court
Lee Stowell says she was bullied and harassed at a Wall Street brokerage. She wants her day in court.
Lee Stowell couldn’t find her Bernie Sanders mug.
It was August 2016 at the Summit, N.J., outpost of Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street brokerage. The tension in the office was becoming unbearable for Stowell—and not only because her colleagues couldn’t stand the rumpled-haired socialist on her mug. For a while, work had felt like a throwback to the early days of her career, when traders could spew invective with impunity, and women had to stomach it or find a way to hold their own.