Goldman Sachs Suspended One of Its Top Producing Banksters; Developing Multi-Billion Dollar Scandal
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein throws a fellow bankster under the bus.
A former Goldman Sachs Group . bankers file with the securities industrys self-regulating group, Finra, confirmed Friday that the crony Wall Street firm suspended him for making inaccurate and unauthorized statements in a reference letter he wrote without its consent, reports WSJ..
Tim Leissner, Goldmans former Southeast Asia chairman, was placed on leave in January after the firm discovered the letter during an internal investigation into his role in handling deals for a controversial Malaysian government investment fund at the center of a multi-billion dollar corruption scandal,
Leissners file on the Finras database of securities professionals was updated recently to reflect the reviews discovery, noting the June 2015 reference letter was provided to a non-U.S. financial institutional he wrote on behalf of a foreign affiliate of the firm, without the affiliates or the firms knowledge or approval.
Goldman placed Leissner on leave after executives interviewed him on Jan. 19. A day later, he told the firm he planned to retire, according to the Finra filing.
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