April 29, 2024

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The craziest ways Wall Street is spending this year’s record-setting bonuses

New York Post

 

There’s rain in the forecast — and lots of it — as flush Wall Street bros blow their record-setting bonuses on cars and caviar.

“We recently had a $10,000 bill [for six people],” said Jesse Schenker, who, with partner Claudia Taglich, owns Oyster Bay, Long Island, fine-dining restaurants Four and 2 Spring. “Everyone ordered the $245 menu, which is 15 courses. They got the black-and-white truffle addition for another $200 [each]. Then, they made friends with the table next to them and started buying wine: a magnum of Krug for $1,800, a Domaine Raveneau Chablis for like $900, a 2005 Domaine Dujac Bonnes-Mares — which I don’t even know how much it was, but probably more than $1,000 — a Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage — which God knows was almost $1,000 again — and finished it off with a $2,500 Spanish Vega Sicilia Unico.

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