Matt Levine, Columnist

Malaysia Wants Goldman’s Money Back

Also Lehman’s bankruptcy, options mis-marking and Weinstein clauses.

January 18, 2019 at 4:59 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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I don’t know what step 5 is. Maybe “win the lawsuit and then steal the money again”?