Ex-Goldman banker Roger Ng seeks celebrity prison for 1MDB fraud


NEW YORK: Roger Ng (pic), the only Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker tried and convicted in the global 1MDB scandal, asked a judge to let him serve his 10-year prison term in Danbury, Connecticut - the same facility where hotel magnate Leona Helmsley was imprisoned for tax evasion in the early 1990s.

Ng’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo asked US District Judge Margo Brodie in a letter that she recommend the "lowest-possible designation” at the low-security federal prison for his client.

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