A former Goldman Sachs partner testified on 16 February that he was so driven to win business for the Wall Street bank that he conspired to bribe government officials and launder billions of dollars.
Timothy Leissner told a federal jury in New York that he and former colleague Roger Ng received praise from Goldman executives by securing three deals in 2012 and 2013 to raise $6.5bn in bond offerings for 1Malaysia Development Bhd., a state-controlled economic development company known as 1MDB.
