Investment banker seen on video punching woman after Brooklyn Pride charged with assault

An investment banker seen on video punching a woman in the face after Brooklyn Pride last month was arraigned Monday on charges of assault, menacing and harassment — and was later attacked alongside his lawyer outside court.

Jonathan Kaye surrendered to police Monday morning and was initially charged with one count of felony assault and one count of misdemeanor assault for the caught-on-camera fracas, said cops.

After his arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court, as Kaye and his lawyer Joan Illuzzi walked outside, a group of people began to follow the pair, shouting.

“We were set upon by a group of people,” said Illuzzi. “It was shocking.”

“They were calling my client a f—ing Zionist pig, screaming in his face, throwing liquids at him,” said the lawyer, a former Manhattan assistant district attorney who was the lead prosecutor in the Harvey Weinstein case.

One of them pushed me like a football player from behind,” said Illuzzi. “The same person took out his keys, put them between his fingers and looked like he was about to attack my client.”

Illuzzi said she had pointed out the man to court officers, but he left.

“We were assaulted. They threw coffee on me and punched my lawyer in the back,” Kaye said outside the courthouse.

A Daily News reporter saw four people drive away in a black van.

In a shocking video from June 8 widely circulated on social media, a man later identified as Kaye strikes a woman in the face so hard she reels backward and falls down on the street.

Another person can be seen in the background of the video lying on the ground as two people offer assistance.

The woman, who identified herself only as Micah P., told NBC 4 New York her nose was broken in four places by the blow, which took place around 10:30 p.m. on Fifth Ave. and Third St. in Park Slope.

“When we saw him walk by we immediately, like, kind of just turned to each other and were like, ‘Don’t engage with that guy, he seems drunk or unhinged or something,’” Micah told the station. “He seemed very angry when he walked by.”

Kaye called them “useful idiots” and continued down the block until she asked him what he said, according to Micah’s account.

“He turned back around and just started rushing us,” she told the station. She took her bottle of water and splashed it at Kaye.

After saying she would not file a police report over the vicious punch, Micah came forward to lodge a complaint with the NYPD.

When she spoke to NBC 4 New York, Micah told the TV station she would not make an official report to cops because she doesn’t have faith in the NYPD. Instead, she said she would be consulting with her lawyer on other approaches.

“I want this man to be held accountable for the harm he’s done on his community and the members of my friend group. So I want him to be a better person after this,” she told the station.

“I want him to take anger management. I want him to get therapy. I want him to not be in a position of power until he is able to be a better member of community.”

Police say the complaint for assault was made June 12 by a 38-year-old woman who told police Kaye approached her and yelled at her, and she spilled water on him from a bottle she was holding.

“The individual then punched the victim in the face causing a broken nose, lacerations and a black eye. The victim states that she lost consciousness after being punched and falling to the ground,” said a DCPI spokesman.

Upon learning that Kaye’s charges had been reduced to misdemeanors, Micah’s lawyer, Ron Kuby, said he was disappointed in the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.

“They get the kind of good press that they are taking it seriously but within 24 hours they downgrade it,” said Kuby.

At the time of the assaults, Kaye was employed by Moelis & Co., a Manhattan investment bank, as a managing director leading the global business services franchise.

Shortly after the first video became public, Kaye went on leave, but is now gone from the job.

“Jonathan Kaye has resigned and is no longer with the firm,” a Moelis spokesman told The News.