Sex Jokes and Lost Business Fuel Saleswoman’s Fight With Cantor
- Randee Paston’s discrimination lawsuit was sent to arbitration
- ‘I don’t think anybody should be treated how I was treated’
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When things were going well for Randee Paston inside Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond saleswoman was dealing with major clients, making millions of dollars for the firm and helping to spearhead a women’s network inside the Wall Street brokerage. That changed when a group of men joined her Manhattan office from a Swiss bank in late 2017, she said, chasing her clients and essentially pushing her out last year.
Since then, in a battle that started in court and was kicked into secretive arbitration, Paston accused former colleagues of looking at videos of naked women at work, joking about sex and prostitutes and breaking trading rules.