ALBANY – A prominent Albany-area banker did not lack for female companionship while his Catholic-school teacher wife was sleeping with a 16-year-old student, an explosive divorce filing charges.
Thomas Geisel was having his own steamy affair, with a married woman, at the same time, the bombshell lawsuit charges.
Geisel, president of Key Community Bank’s northeast region and a father of four, is cited as the other man in divorce papers filed in Albany state Supreme Court by public-relations man David Bean against his estranged wife, Karen Bean.
Their affair, according to Bean’s court papers, began last May, which is the same month that Geisel’s estranged wife, Sandra “Beth” Geisel, was accused by officials of sleeping with the underage student and two 17-year-olds.
Karen Bean “openly, publicly, arrogantly and notoriously committed adultery” with the bank executive at her home, his home, the Four Seasons hotel in Boston, and in Saratoga Springs and New York City, according to the filing.
In one incident, the lawsuit charges, Thomas Geisel and Karen Bean returned to her “marital residence” drunk, staggering and slurring their words.
After talking to her son, stepdaughter and two others at the house, Bean and Geisel disappeared into the “marital bedroom together, where they remained for several hours,” according to the legal papers.
Neither David Bean nor the lawyer who prepared and filed his brief, Florence Richardson, would comment.
A spokeswoman for Thomas Geisel had no comment.
Karen Bean insisted she is not having an affair, saying she first filed for divorce in December 2004.
“I am absolutely denying an affair,” she said.
Karen Bean did say Thomas Geisel’s behavior had nothing to do with his wife’s sexual escapades with her students at the Christian Brothers Academy in upstate Colonie.
Sandra Geisel wound up pleading guilty to a single count of rape and served more than four months in prison. She immediately went into a court-ordered 90-day alcohol and drug rehab program after her release in December.