The New York Post – A former hedge fund portfolio manager is suing his former employer claiming he was stiffed on his compensation at a time when he needed cash to care for his cancer-stricken son. <\/p>\n
Stephen Czech claims that Jonathan Bauer, who runs the roughly $4 billion Contrarian Capital Management in Greenwich, Conn., is withholding Czech’s regular base pay and bonus "arbitrarily," according to a lawsuit filed in state court in Stamford. <\/p>\n
The teeth of the complaint centers on an approved personal leave of absence that Czech had taken from Jan. 6 to Feb. 16 to seek medical attention for his 11-year-old son, who had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. <\/p>\n
Czech alleges that during his leave his already shaky relationship with Bauer became contentious as Bauer became increasingly unreasonable about paying more than $1 million in total compensation owed to him. <\/p>\n
Czech was racing to gather funds for pre- and post-operative medical attention to save his son’s life and treat a plum-size tumor at the base of his brain stem. <\/p>\n