Leissner forfeited $43.7 million and shares now valued at around $200 million as part of his guilty plea.
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The government’s star trial witness was Ng’s former boss and an ex-Goldman partner, Tim Leissner, who testified that that he pulled in $50 million to $60 million in kickbacks while Ng made $35 million off the deals. “A case like this is designed to send a message to other multinational businesses that you are going to be held responsible under this law.” Tim Leissner and wife Kimora Lee Simmons (AP)
Levenson, a Loyola Law School professor and former prosecutor. “It’s not easy in this global economic world to make people play by the rules,” said Laurie L. Legal experts said the prosecution highlighted the role the United States seeks to play in monitoring international business practices. “This was a personal disaster in the life of that family.” “My heart frankly goes out to his daughter, whom he left when she was 6, and now she’s 9,” Agnifilo said.
Trial began on February 14 in the Eastern District of New York, nearly three years after Ng, facing extradition, voluntarily came to the United States. He faces up to 30 years in prison for the charges. Ng will remain out on the $250 million bond imposed before trial, with some adjustments to his curfew to be determined by pretrial services. “He has great inner fortitude,” he said, “and always has.” “The defendant and his cronies saw 1MDB not as an entity to do good for the people of Malaysia, but as a piggy bank to enrich themselves with piles of money siphoned from the fund,” Peace wrote in a statement following Friday’s verdict.Īgnifilo, in contrast, spoke highly of his client’s character. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace called the scheme “obscene in its greed.” The bank’s Malaysian subsidiary pleaded guilty to violating anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA. He had argued that his client was a scapegoat in the sweeping international scandal, which eventually cost Goldman Sachs billions in fines under a deferred prosecution agreement. “I hate to say it, I was.”Īgnifilo, of the firm Brafman & Associates, hung his head in the courtroom after the first guilty verdict was read out. “I’m surprised,” said Marc Agnifilo, Ng’s attorney, following the verdict. “And folks, it’s time to hold him accountable.”Īfter eight weeks of trial, jurors has been trying to reach a verdict since Tuesday afternoon and did so midmorning on Friday. The 49-year-old Ng was found guilty of conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on two counts, via bribery and circumventing accounting controls, as well as conspiring to launder money from the scheme. Attorney Drew Rolle had said before the start of deliberations. “He made choices that harmed an entire country,” Assistant U.S. Prosecutors called out how the heist deprived Malaysia of funding for infrastructure like better roads and energy systems, pointing the finger at Ng. Another banker pleaded guilty to his role, and the plan’s purported mastermind, Malaysian businessman and “playboy” Jho Low, remains on the lam. Ng Chong Hwa, who goes by Roger, was the only banker to face trial over the multibillion-dollar scheme to rob the fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, otherwise known as 1MDB. BROOKLYN (CN) - It took nearly 16 hours for a jury to convict a former Goldman Sachs banker for his involvement in one of the largest financial scandals of all time.
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