Marrying the glamorous Kimora Lee Simmons made Goldman Sachs’ Tim Leissner — now entangled in the bank’s Malaysian scandal — desperate to be super-rich.
at the same time – twice.” The attorney also accused Leissner of forging documents including divorce papers and of having sexual relations with Jasmine Loo Ai Swan, formerly the general counsel for 1MDB who received a $5 million transfer from the fund.
Playboy entrepreneur Jho Low — seen with Leonardo DiCaprio, one of many celebrities he paid to attend his parties — allegedly greased the wheels for the bankers to embezzle from the fund.For American investment bankers in that era, the Far East was more like the Wild West. Leissner and his colleagues swaggered around the continent, their pockets bulging with cash, taking the notion of work-hard/play-hard to an extreme.
Leissner was a star witness last week in the trial of his former Goldman Sachs underling Roger Ng , who is charged with conspiring to launder money and violate the federal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.“Tim felt comfortable in the edgy environment,” said Hope. “It was edgy because it mixed government with business. We don’t have that in America — and if we did it would be full of corruption. It’s a dangerous thing having pools of money [accessible to top government officials].
According to prosecutors, Ng and Leissner allegedly helped Low embezzle funds from 1MDB in exchange for millions in kickbacks . The payoffs quickly got out of hand, and so did the lifestyle. “The impression [colleagues] had was that he wanted to make a lot of money,” Hope said of Leissner when Kimora came into his life. “He wasn’t content to make what he made.”Leissner always seemed to have ways of justifying his success without seeming unsavory.
But rubber hit the road in 2015 when it became clear that the 1MDB Fund had accumulated overwhelming debt. Goldman Sachs launched an in-house investigation. Leissner, suspended from the firm, repaired to the luxe life in Los Angeles. Once arrested, in June 2018, he speedily entered a guilty plea and began negotiating the most important deal of his life.
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