Ng is charged with conspiring to violate US anti-money-laundering law in a scheme to siphon billions of dollars from the fund, known as 1MDB. He is the only former Goldman Sachs employee to stand trial in the U.S. for a scandal that stretched from Singapore to Hollywood to Wall Street.
A lawyer for former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Roger Ng assailed Ng’s former boss and the government’s star witness, Tim Leissner, as a “double bigamist” who was testifying against Ng only to save himself.
“Tim Leissner uses people,” defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo told jurors Monday in his opening statement in Ng’s federal conspiracy trial. He said Leissner was “married to two different women at the same time, twice” and that he had an “illicit” relationship with an executive of the Malaysian fund Ng is accused of helping loot.
