

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 had divorced.

Īt the time Leissner married Simmons, he was still married to his ex-wife, Judy Chan. In February 2022, it was revealed that Leissner and Simmons were estranged from each other, though it is not exactly clear when the couple split. They have one child together, a son, born in 2015. In 2014, Leissner married Kimora Lee Simmons. Goldman paid a record fine (over $5 billion) to the Malaysian and U.S. In 2022, Bloomberg called Leissner "Goldman's most notorious banker." He retired in January 2016 after an internal review found he sent a fake letter to Banque Havilland on behalf of Jho Low. Leissner was employed by Goldman Sachs from 1998 to 2016. See also: 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal The book was published in September 2018. 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. He testified against his former deputy Roger Ng in a 2022 trial. Leissner was banned for life by the Securities and Exchange Commission and forced to pay a $43 million fine. In 2018 Leissner pled guilty to charges he personally stole $200 million from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and that he broke the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by paying bribes to corrupt Malaysian and Emirati offices to get Goldman Sachs business. He was arrested in June 2018 in Washington, D.C.

Leissner helped orchestrate the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal, one of the biggest financial scandals in history, in which billions of dollars were stolen. Tim Leissner (born October 31, 1971) is a German-born investment banker and a former managing director at Goldman Sachs and chairman of the bank's Southeast Asia division. Chairman of Southeast Asia and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs
