By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN- Review
EDNY COURTHOUSE, Feb 23 -- As Goldman Sachs' Tim Leissner kept testifying in the EDNY courthouse, outside it was getting warmer. Kurt didn't take his winter coat or even a windbreaker, leaving it in the SDNY press room which was a atwitter about the upcoming presentment of Ed Mullins, foul-mouthed former head of a police union, charged with stealing money from his union.
In the EDNY overflow courtroom there were fewer journalists, a total perhaps of 20. But the testimony was more detailed, about a particular $1.75 billion deal Leissner and it seemed defendant Roger Ng had worked on with Jho Low and a bunch of UAE royals.
And a Swiss private bank, which should have set off alarms, when used by a sovereign wealth fund.
But Goldman stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars, its biggest deal ever in Asia, as Leissner put it.
Leissner and Ng met with Jho Low in his hotel in Los Angeles - then Leissner but not Ng flew with Jho Low on his jet back each to Teterboro airport, the same one used by Jeffrey Epstein and his Lolita Express.
Leissner said he took his own black car to the Embassy Suites in Lower Manhattan across from Goldman Sachs, then met Jho Low and Riza Aziz, the stepson of Malaysia's corrupt first lady, for dinner the next night by Central Park. Ng wasn't there.
So why did DOJ give Leissner a cooperator's deal, to testify against his own subordinate Ng? This is what Kurt was asking himself when the trial day ended. For the second day in a row, the same ritual, at least the first part of it. A string of tweets from the media room, then a stand up outside the courthouse. But this time he didn't cross Cadman Plaza into Brooklyn Heights. He thought he could get back to SDNY in time for Palin vs New York Times, if not Mullins' presentment. And he was right, another day in another trial. #TheWeaselOfWallStreet.
Kurt had first heard of Jho Low while still in the UN, before he was thrown out. Jho Low appeared at a UN press conference in front of the ubiquitous and now defiled logo. #TheWeaselOfWallStreet, 1st in a new series
Inner City Press is also covering US v. Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, the self-rapped Crocodile of Wall Street, a story here, song here
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