Ex-Goldman Banker’s Prison Term Previews What Former Boss Faces
- Ng was only Goldman banker to face trial in global scheme
- His supervisor who helped US stands to get shorter sentence
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The 10-year prison sentence handed down to former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Roger Ng shows the enormous risk he took by going to trial to fight charges that he helped carry out the massive 1MDB fraud.
It also raises a question about how much prison time a US judge will impose on Ng’s former boss, Tim Leissner, who pleaded guilty and testified against him as the government’s star witness, when Leissner is sentenced in September.