The CEO of the trendy online store Steelos rakes in $25,000 a month — but he’s such a cheapskate that✃ he swiped a credit card to pay a $12 bar tab, according to Manhattan court papers.
Jesse Bride, 29, was busted in May for lifting a stranger’s credit card from an Upper East Side barbecue joint, authorities said. He then allegedly used it to pay his $12 tab at the bar — and another $12 bill at the next🧜 establishment he went to.
The well-heeled thief was extra🅰 generous to th♐e waiter at the second joint — he left a 600 percent tip, or $70, court documents allege.
Bride — head of the Manhattan-based men’s clothing company — was drinking with a pal ⛎at Brother Jimmy’s near East 77th Street on May 25 when he initially snatched the card issued by Charles Schwab from the bar counter. It had been forgotten there by a patron, the documents said.
Bride, who has worked at Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta a🔥nd Ralph Lauren, allegedly used the stolen plastic to pay his measly $12 tab before he headed to the bar American Trash around the corner. There, he used it to buy another $12 round of drinks and left the whopping tip, authori💛ties said.
He was done in after the victim returned to💛 Brother Jimmy’s later the same night looking for his missing card, authorities said.
The bartende🦩r knew Bride by face and realized that she’d processed the other person’s card without looking at the name.
She was able to finger Bride ✨as the card thief to cops, the docume🐲nts state.
Bride was hauled into Manhattan Criminal Court in handcuffs Wednesday after missing a c🎃ourt appearance on grand-larceny and identity-theft charges.
Judge Alexander Tisch chastised him for not hiring a private attorney and forcing👍 the city to pay for a Legal Aid lawyer.
Surprised that she was assigned to his case, Legal A൩id lawyer Candace Kurtz even noted, “He makes an enormous amount of money.”
The judge sternly a🦄dmonished Bride, “You got to clear this whole thing up. This counsel is for indigent people.”
After the hearing, the handsome Upper East Side resident said dismissively of ♉the case, “It was a misunderstanding.”
Wearing skinny jeans, gray high-to✤ps and a white button-down shirt, he added, “It will all be cleared up.”