Tim Leissner was born on October 31,1971 and is a German-born investment banker and a former managing director at Goldman Sachs and chairman of the bank's Southeast Asia division.
10 Facts About Tim Leissner
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Tim Leissner was arrested in June 2018 in Washington, DC.
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Tim Leissner was banned for life by the Securities and Exchange Commission and forced to pay a $43 million fine.
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Tim Leissner testified against his former deputy Roger Ng in a 2022 trial.
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Tim Leissner is portrayed in the book "Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World" by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope of The Wall Street Journal, which focuses on Jho Low, the purported mastermind behind the 1MDB scheme.
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Tim Leissner was employed by Goldman Sachs from 1998 to 2016.
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Tim Leissner retired in January 2016 after an internal review found he sent a fake letter to Banque Havilland on behalf of Jho Low.
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At the time Leissner married Simmons, he was still married to his ex-wife, Judy Chan.
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Tim Leissner gave Simmons photoshopped documents showing that he was divorced from Chan, and created an email address in Chan's name to convince Simmons that the couple was divorced.
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Tim Leissner continued the correspondence for over a year and continued using the email account for several years.