The Wall Street banker lost a job from a top insurance company after being slapped last month in New York City on criminal charges for raping a 25-year-old woman, Post learned.
According to the company insider, Mark Harris, a 38-year-old infrastructure and energy finance specialist, is set to start a new job at Global Atlantic Financial Group, owned by global equity giant KKR on April 7th.
Harris signed a contract to join the company on March 4, which he vehemently denies, just two days before his arrest, said a global Atlantic source.
However, KKR-owned insurance companies and private credit providers have x offer for a six-figure contract after the Post broke the news of the charges at Manhattan Criminal Court.
“Mr. Harris has not been charged with these strange and apparently false allegations,” Goldman said, noting that the prosecutor has not yet filed a lawsuit in the large ju trial.
“It's a shame that someone in Mr. Harris' character will be arrested and subject to recklessly sanctionable articles and can withdraw their work based on a fictitious rape claim. We expect this issue to be dismissed soon,” the defense attorney added.
A spokesman for the Global Atlantic declined to comment.
The Post first reported that prosecutors accused a former investor of raping a woman in her midtown Manhattan apartment, calling her “F-King Bitch,” and that she told her “this is here.”
New York prosecutors say Harris allegedly pulled down the victim's pants and held them down on a mattress to rape him.
The woman then attempted to combat the suspected sexual predator by repeatedly pleasing and halting sexual predators, according to criminal charges.
Harris, who denied the allegations, paid $150,000 bail when he first appeared in court on two counts of rape and sexual abuse on March 6th.
He returned to court May 1, where the case was filed by the New York County District Attorney, the legal application shows. The female identity has not been revealed.
The banker left Investec last November, and his broker profile with US regulator FINRA shows he is not registered with any company. The former employer spokeswoman declined to comment.
Before joining Investec, Harris spent 11 years at Powerhouse Bank SMBC in Japan, where he served as director of Structure and Project Finance.
He then moved to SMBC Nikko Securities in 2022 and became director of investment banks, according to his LinkedIn profile.
A SMBC spokesperson did not reply to requests to post comments.
The University of Chicago graduate lives in a two-bedroom two-bath apartment in the swanky Brooklyn Point building in downtown Brooklyn, with a recent list of similar units on sale for $2.6 million.
KKR first acquired a majority stake in Global Atlantic Financial Group in 2021, then won the remaining 37% in January 2024. The insurance company and private credit company are chaired by KKR partner Allan Levine.
Henny Kravis and his cousin George Roberts decided to set up a KKR for dinner at a Italian steakhouse in Midtown in 1976, sketching ideas on what will become today's private equity industry on the napkins.
Their attempt to snap tobacco company RJR Nabisco with its debt fuel acquisition in 1988 produced a book by two Wall Street Journal reporters and an HBO film entitled “The Barbarian of the Gate.”
Today, the two 80-year-old Corporate Raiders have a joint estimated net worth of $36 billion.
Along with fellow late founder Jerome Kohlberg Jr., who passed away in 2015, they became known as the Godfathers of Leveraged Buyouts.
