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Ex-assistant accused of stealing $1.2m of wine from Goldman CEO jumps to his death

Nicolas De-Meyer, who previously worked for David Solomon, had been expected to plead guilty in federal court in Manhattan

A former personal assistant to Goldman Sachs’s chief executive killed himself by jumping from the 33rd floor of a hotel on Tuesday, at the same time he had been scheduled to plead guilty for what prosecutors had said was stealing more than $1.2m worth of his boss’s wine.

Nicolas De-Meyer, 41, who worked for Goldman’s David Solomon, had been expected to plead guilty in federal court in Manhattan at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

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