A defence lawyer has attacked the integrity of the government’s star witness, focusing on lies about his marital status and being married to two women at once.
resumed on Tuesday with a defence lawyer attacking the credibility of the government’s star witness, focusing on his history of lying about his marital status.former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner
The once high-flying financier admitted that his personal-life lies fit a pattern that dated to the early 2000s, when – while in the middle of seeking a quickie divorce from his first wife without her knowledge – he wed a Goldman colleague. The defence contends prosecutors are making Mr Ng a scapegoat for “corporate-wide” failures at Goldman that enabled the colossal fraud orchestrated by Mr Leissner and Low Taek Jho, the Malaysian financier and fugitive socialite known as Jho Low.
The trial hit a snag last week with prosecutors’ admission that emails and other documents were mistakenly withheld from defence. The judge paused the case late last week to give the defence time to review the newly disclosed evidence before it began a cross-examination expected to last well into the week.
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