David M. Solomon, a co-president at Goldman Sachs, enjoys fine food and good wine. For years, he has tasked his personal assistant with helping manage a world-class collection of wine. But his assistant, Nicolas De-Meyer, was doing a lot more than just stocking Solomon’s wine cellar at the Hamptons, The New York Times reports. Federal authorities say that De-Meyer was stealing some of the most coveted French vintages — worth more than $1.2 million — and selling them. De-Meyer, 40, was arrested on Tuesday night at Los Angeles International Airport and was charged with one count of interstate transportation of stolen property. He could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. De-Meyer received shipments of wine at his boss’s Manahattan apartment and was then expected to deliver them to the wine cellar at the Goldman Sachs executive in East Hampton on Long Island. But authorities say hundreds of bottles never made it to the cellar. De-Meyer, using an alias of Mark Miller, sold them to a wine dealer from North Carolina who would pick them up at the apartment. According to The Times, the most prized vintages stolen were “seven bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, a French pinot noir from Burgundy produced by one of the most revered vineyards in the world.”
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