Bloomberg exec sent raunchy messages to male – Business News
A senior supervisor at Bloomberg LP bombarded a male worker with crude sexual messages — asking about lubricant and intercourse acts during a work chat — whereas the media giant appeared the opposite means, in accordance to a bombshell lawsuit obtained by The Post.
Charles Kyle O’Rourke, an account supervisor who has labored at Bloomberg since 2019, accused a senior supervisor of turning the company’s own inside messaging system into a vehicle for sexual harassment — and blaming Bloomberg itself for letting it occur.
The swimsuit, filed in opposition to the financial information giant earlier this week in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, names Peter Elliot because the alleged harasser.
A Bloomberg L.P. account supervisor, Charles Kyle O’Rourke, filed a lawsuit April 13 in Manhattan Supreme Court alleging a senior supervisor, Peter Elliot (pictured above), sent him sexually specific messages on Bloomberg’s inside chat system in February 2025. Gustavo Caballero
“Over the course of his nearly six-year tenure, Mr. O’Rourke has been subjected to repeated acts of sexual harassment by a senior manager, Peter Elliot, and has experienced a hostile work environment exacerbated by inadequate management support and failure to provide reasonable accommodations for his deteriorating mental health,” the criticism alleges.
In February 2025, in accordance to the criticism, Elliot fired off a harassing message to O’Rourke because the account supervisor was planning for worldwide journey.
“Your life is terrible. Let’s hope there’s a Thai out there who can soothe you. Do you take the whole tribe? Or do you just pack some lube and some Nasty Pig cutoffs and get on the plane?” Elliot allegedly wrote.
Elliot additionally allegedly informed O’Rourke he ought to “spit in [his] coffee” and that “teeth marks may have to wait” — crude innuendo the swimsuit claims was totally unwelcome.
O’Rourke allegedly reported Elliot’s conduct to upper-level management and executives. Bloomberg did nothing, the criticism alleges, and the harassment continued.
O’Rourke reported the harassment to management, however Bloomberg allegedly took no motion, in accordance to the criticism. Askar – stock.adobe.com
When O’Rourke informed his supervisor, David LaPaglia, that his ADHD signs and nervousness had worsened and requested to focus on doable lodging, LaPaglia retaliated with a systematic marketing campaign to push O’Rourke out, the swimsuit alleges.
LaPaglia subjected him to relentless micromanagement, demanded hourly activity updates, stripped shoppers from his portfolio after which informed those self same shoppers that O’Rourke was no longer on the firm, the swimsuit claims.
O’Rourke took a medical depart of absence on Aug. 19 following what the swimsuit referred to as a “transparent attempt to force Plaintiff to resign from the firm.”
Elliot at an Oct. 16, 2015 occasion at Bloomberg in New York City. Gustavo Caballero
The criticism, filed April 13 by attorneys Reyna Lubin and Andrew Clark of Eisenberg & Baum, LLP, brings six claims in opposition to Bloomberg underneath New York State and City Human Rights Law: hostile work atmosphere, intercourse discrimination, incapacity discrimination, retaliation, aiding and abetting, and whistleblower retaliation underneath New York Labor Law.
Bloomberg is “strictly liable” for its managers’ conduct, the swimsuit argues, as a result of they exercised supervisory accountability over O’Rourke. By refusing to self-discipline Elliot or LaPaglia, the company didn’t simply fail to stop the abuse — it allegedly condoned it.
O’Rourke is in search of compensatory and punitive damages, attorneys’ charges, and a court docket order forcing Bloomberg to overhaul its harassment reporting and coaching insurance policies. A jury trial is demanded.
“We have looked into his claim and are confident it has no merit,” Ty Trippet, a spokesman for Bloomberg LP informed The Post in a assertion.
Neither Elliot nor O’Rourke could possibly be reached for remark.
