Morgan Stanley Sued for Racial Bias a Decade After Class-Action Settlement

A former Morgan Stanley wealth manager sued the bank saying he was terminated following a “campaign of harassment,” even after the settlement a decade ago of a class-action discrimination lawsuit.

The suit was filed in federal court in New York by John Lockette, an African-American man from New Jersey who worked at Morgan Stanley as an assistant vice president in its wealth management division in 2013 until he was fired in August 2016. Lockette says the reforms obtained by the settlements of class-action suits have “utterly failed” and that the company’s discriminatory policies and practices continue.

“Morgan Stanley has no ...