EX-JPMORGAN EXEC FINED $175 OVER KNICKS TRASH CAN
A woman who dumped a Knicks trash can onto a Manhattan sidewalk and walked off with it ended up with $175 in sanitation fines.
Angie Báez, 40, was the woman in the video. It showed her emptying a blue-and-orange, limited-edition Knicks-themed public bin onto the street and walking away with it on June 18, 2026, during the Knicks championship parade.
Additional footage showed her riding the subway with the bin, the New York Post reported. NBC News reported that the original video was posted to TikTok.
The city’s Department of Sanitation, which put out the commemorative bins, did not hold back in a statement to the Post.
“Dumping trash onto the street and stealing public property for your own personal use are both illegal, antisocial behaviors, and not what New Yorkers do,” the department said. “On top of all that, doing both on camera is incredibly stupid.”
JPMorgan Chase, where Báez worked, said in a statement that “This employee is no longer with the company.” The bank’s spokesperson did not say whether the video caused her departure.
The Post reported that Báez had been a JPMorgan Chase executive director of community and industry engagement for card and connected commerce. The paper said she previously worked as executive director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at The Infatuation, which the bank acquired.
Snopes found that her Chase role did not appear to be a DEI position, though some of her earlier jobs were DEI-related.
What happened next
The Post reported on June 23, 2026, that Báez was no longer with the bank. She could not be reached for comment, the paper said.
The Post also reported that the NYPD had received no complaints about the incident and that Báez had not been charged with a crime.
The bin made its way back to the city. Sanitation confirmed on the morning of June 24, 2026, that it had been returned, NBC News reported.
Department spokesperson Vincent Gragnani said, according to Banking Dive, that the returned can was the one from the video. “Yes, this is the same basket that was in the video,” he said.
Gragnani said the department removed stickers from the can and photographed it at its Worth Street headquarters. “It was returned to us, we removed two stickers from it, and took the photo ourselves at our Worth Street Headquarters – no AI used,” he said.
The sanitation department had already recovered the bin by the time the fines were made public. It issued a $75 summons for littering and a $100 summons for impeding department operations. Snopes reported that those were the maximum penalties allowed for first offenses.
NBC News also reported that the woman credited with posting the video expressed remorse in an Instagram story.
The latest word came from the Department of Sanitation on June 24, 2026: the can had been returned, and Báez had received two summonses totaling $175. No arrest or criminal charge has been reported.
